tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post8442008485611479043..comments2024-03-25T02:33:41.590-05:00Comments on FemaleScienceProfessor: Poster Child for Women in ScienceFemale Science Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15288567883197987690noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-65587582420248192062007-05-13T06:21:00.000-05:002007-05-13T06:21:00.000-05:00Perhaps you are just obsessed with self-analysis a...Perhaps you are just obsessed with self-analysis and oversensitive therefrom with regards to all things related to your: 1) gender, 2) stature, 3) perceived inequality and 4) resulting victimization. If you think it odd the way others behold you, perhaps you should admit the equality of their perception.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-71379540765141907612007-05-11T00:34:00.000-05:002007-05-11T00:34:00.000-05:00I don't feel sick, but I do feel abnormal sometime...I don't feel sick, but I do feel abnormal sometimes..Female Science Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15288567883197987690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-48138015197171427222007-05-11T00:28:00.000-05:002007-05-11T00:28:00.000-05:00Your story reminds me of an interview I heard on N...Your story reminds me of an interview I heard on NPR with a real-life poster child-- you can find her story here:<BR/>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20070304/ai_n18725952<BR/>The really interesting part was that being a poster child made her feel like a movie star-- special and famous rather than sick or abnormal! Something to reflect on as you ponder life as a FSP. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-82415268209688274952007-05-10T16:59:00.000-05:002007-05-10T16:59:00.000-05:00It sounds like you 'get' the main point re. musing...It sounds like you 'get' the main point re. musing quite well, Lisa! Thanks for the comment. Alas, I have not been told that I am a great scientist for at least a day or two or so..Female Science Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15288567883197987690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-1785321744341713292007-05-10T16:49:00.000-05:002007-05-10T16:49:00.000-05:00Jinx! I guess we crossed comments, FSP . . .Jinx! I guess we crossed comments, FSP . . .Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11949932116223136144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-40824092935007461422007-05-10T16:47:00.000-05:002007-05-10T16:47:00.000-05:00Anon, if someone said "hey, you're a great scienti...Anon, if someone said "hey, you're a great scientist", FSP probably wouldn't think twice about it and so wouldn't write about it, but I bet things like that happen to her all the time, and she's not pretending that they don't or that everyone is out to get her. <BR/>Also, I thought the point of this post was that she didn't take offense to the comment--she just was musing on the strangeness of it, which is what a lot of people use blogs for--to muse about things happen to them and wonder what they mean. <BR/> <BR/>Personally, I regard the definition of "poster child for" as nothing but "great example of", but perhaps I am too young to "get" the original meaning of the phrase . . .Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11949932116223136144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-79855488858854385262007-05-10T16:41:00.000-05:002007-05-10T16:41:00.000-05:00It's difficult to get a sense for someone from the...It's difficult to get a sense for someone from their email or other internet communications, even someone who has written a lot, so I will be very explicit here: I did not take offense at being called a 'poster child'. I was AMUSED by it, hence the statement that I laughed. I had a very enjoyable conversation with the FSP who used this phrase. I use this blog to mull things over, muse about events that happen in my professional life (good and bad), and see what other people have to say (comments and criticism). I suppose this sounds defensive, but I don't feel defensive, I just feel like explaining myself more so that the point of this and other posts will be clearer.Female Science Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15288567883197987690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-72133663210426404282007-05-10T16:34:00.000-05:002007-05-10T16:34:00.000-05:00After reading your blog for awhile I start to noti...After reading your blog for awhile I start to notice that you tend to take offense and seem to rarely give a benefit of the doubt (or you don't write about those cases?). It is as if you are looking for someone to mistreat you as a female scientist. This post is a great example of that... Just take a compliment without disecting and reassembling it into what it's not! I can only imagine what you'd write if this compliment came from a male!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-43941590269056806142007-05-10T16:18:00.000-05:002007-05-10T16:18:00.000-05:00Wow, that was the longest acceptance of a complime...Wow, that was the longest acceptance of a compliment, ever.Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16888125796129754219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-73074581473517157902007-05-10T15:57:00.000-05:002007-05-10T15:57:00.000-05:00I'm glad to have found your blog. I'm a Ph.D. stu...I'm glad to have found your blog. I'm a Ph.D. student in Wind Engineering (specialty in Atmospheric Science) and I have no idea what I'm going to do after I finish now that I have a sweet baby boy. It's interesting to read your perspective.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-64587632535805809162007-05-10T14:30:00.000-05:002007-05-10T14:30:00.000-05:00I don't know how you excel in your area in experti...I don't know how you excel in your area in expertise compared to others, while keeping what most people would call a normal life,<BR/>but for being a poster child, I would assume you're young for a scientist in your area of expertise.<BR/>I guess what I am trying to say is this: If you think you're special you are, if other people think you're special it counts more towards feeling special, but all in all, people are not really special before achieve something unique to the situation of life they are in.DragonMindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06730921247609343950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-41217571535949538022007-05-10T12:46:00.000-05:002007-05-10T12:46:00.000-05:00hey..u truly r poster child..rather some un who ca...hey..u truly r poster child..rather some un who can atleast inspire ppl to be so...!! keep roll'n...u folks r like.. ppl who makes their own ways..set them as examples.. for othrs to follow u folks...!!!jaishuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01638871944388026464noreply@blogger.com