Irritating article about female professions.

[hafital]

The medical timebomb: 'too many women doctors'

So, women are better and smarter than men, but we're still ruining things. Good to know.

link courtesy of The Minor Fall, The Major Lift, which I should remember to read more often.

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On a completely unrelated note, my parents and I went to go see The Manchurian Candidate the other day. Denzel is great. Liev is fantabulous (and I've been a fan of his for a long time now). Meryl is amazing, and *why* has that woman not won an academy award yet?? ETA: okay, she has two. Why hasn't she won *more*. :)

They did a great job updating the story and making it work. It's just as creepy as the original. Although, if you haven't seen the original Manchurian Candidate, the black and white one, all I can say is that it's, imnsho, one of the best films in cinema history. I was a bit horrified at the thought of a remake, but I must say they did a good job, I thought so, anyway.

This is all by way of saying that one of the trailers before TMC was for Oliver Stone's Alexander. It looked shiny. :) I can already tell that Colin Ferrall's hair is going to drive me insane, but whatever. hee. Also, the trailer had narration and text that at one point said something like "He was a leader... lover..." and I swear I expected to see shots of Hephaistion, but of course it was Roxane instead. heh.

Comments

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

Meryl Streep has actually won two Oscars -- supporting actress for "Kramer vs. Kramer" and lead actress for "Sophie's Choice" -- but she's more than overdue to win again. It's been 20 years, during which she's been nominated many times and turned in great performances that weren't nominated at all.

[hafital.livejournal.com]

you know, as soon as I posted that I thought I prolly should check my facts. lol. well edit. And yes, she should's been ignored for a long time now.

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

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[hafital.livejournal.com]

SOB.

[axiom_of_stripe]

so, let me get this right--

premise: more doctors are women.
premise: people don't respect women.
conclusion: people don't respect doctors.

okay, i'm with her on that; that's a known professional trend.

however, why must the answer be "get more men" instead of "get more respect for women"? why, oh why? *gnashes teeth*

[hafital.livejournal.com]

yeah, totally. It was the male=respect, female=ignored thing that's upsetting. And also the tone that this was an epidemic, like 'be aware because before you know it women are going to take over everything and *then* where will we be' attitude.