Dr. Frank's What's-it

i for one think that sexiness has no place in library sciences, and i will fight to ensure that we unsexy still dominate libraries across the country.

I'm contacting Ralph Nader! This is an outrage!

Vive La Resistance!

/sarcasim off

okay not to get "all serious and everything", but yeah. i don't know if this woman was really qualified for these jobs or not. but her boss telling her that people saw her as a "joke" because she dressed too sexy is pretty messed up. no one wants or deserves to be judged by the way they look or dress, and this woman is no exception. just because someone dresses "sexy" doesn't make her a bad librarian. i can do my job no matter what i'm wearing. sexiness does not imply nonlibrarianness. or something.

I disagree. Although I think that the "dressing sexy" argument was just a bullshit excuse for not promoting a woman, if the issue really _is_ mode of dress, our sexy librarian has no place complaining.

If you want a job, you dress the part and adopt whatever fool attitude they want you to adopt. You are one person. They are the employer. They control your job. If you choose to brand yourself a "troublemaker", you make trouble for yourself. Expressing yourself is what your free time is for (assuming they haven't sucked all that away in the name of unpaid overtime).

root beer cheers to that raedy...personally i think the story is a little ridiculous,but to play the devil's advocate the superficiality street does run both ways. judging someone on their clothing style alone,be it ragedey sweatshirts or Gap is pretty unrighteous in my book. i mean i can't say i've been a perfect person in that respect but its what i think.

now if they actually have some clothing standards in their rules that's another deal.

and yes...they do have the right to suck away your life and control your job...make you follow ever anal rule...

but not to call you a joke and ruin your personal integrity.

"just me": i agree, you hit the nail on the head. i understand that jobs have certain dress codes and blahblah but no one said to her, "your dress is unprofessional" or anything. obviously she wasn't violating a dress code because they didn't fire her or take any disciplinary action or whatever. they just made fun of her behind her back and then told her everyone considered her a joke. way to be a vanguard of liberal thought, harvard! woo!

We seem to be overlooking something ultra-important here: She's really not that sexy.

stig, i'm with you on that one. i've been looking for sexier pictures of her for a while, but i've yet to find anything compelling.

then again, most librarians are pretty frumpy.

okay yeah,i did say i thought it was a little ridiculous,its still the principle of the thing.

it was still unneeded.

Okay, so it looks like ol' Dewey Decimel is out of the picture for the sexy librarian. Perhaps she can start eating lots of pork rinds and bacon-cheese burgers and get all fat so the A&R scout from the personal ads will take care of her.

no respectable university library uses dewey decimal- it's all about library of congress.

she should move out here. i'm sure she'd be prudish by UC standards, though i suspect we might be beneath her.

Dr. Frank, I for one am more than willing to testify to your sexiness if the occasion should ever arise.

Funny enough, I'm in a similar dispute myself with an employer. My sexiness has caused quite an uproar as of late. Of course, sexy in my book equals nude, but what the hey, free country right?

I feel this guy's pain. I mean, hardly a day goes by when I don't find myself at some point asking in exasperation, "Where 'n' the hell are all the average looking slim or big or chubby or thick or girls?". It really is a hard knock life.

Or.

Wait, er, wrong post...

First the librarian and now another Harvard professor!

HARVARD elitists are running amuck!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=7&u=/nm/20050407/od_nm/odd_manure_dc