Comments on: In which I judge a book by its cover

By: Gianna

Gianna — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:38:31 +0000

Geez, what kind of woman in authority is going to be seen dead with that one on her desk???

Funny how the pink ownership thing starts so early; when I take Harley to preschool the girls are almost all dressed in a sea of pink, say 80% of them. You can’t tell me they all spontaneously starting liking pink without the parents buying the pink clothes and toys first. But then I don’t have a girl so don’t know the way it evolves, whether it is something that gets attached at preschool through peer pressure. My son sometimes wonders why girls seem to like pink more than boys since he likes pink too. (Then he shrugs it off, gives a wicked grin and says “Girls have pink poo!”. Ah, three year olds…)

By: L.

L. — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:57:23 +0000

Ooooh! I have an idea! I can write a follow-up “boss book,” about “How to Succeed as the Middle-Aged Lady in Charge, without Reminding Your Employees of Their Bitchy Mothers.”

By: kate

kate — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:00:30 +0000

I like My Career best when they feature someone working in the arts and talking about how they got their job. They always underplay just how hard it is to get full-time permanent gigs in the industry, and ignore that there are hundreds of people in Melbourne working in cafes, or at the front desk at the NGV, with Masters degrees that were supposed to get them the featured job.

I don’t think I’ll be investing in the Girl’s Guide. I assume it doesn’t have anything genuinely helpful and female-specific like:
Dealing with a sexist male boss
Raising a family without destroying the career you’ve worked so hard for
Negotiating carer leave & part-time work
etc
etc