22nd October 2009, 06:09 AM
Taint funny to see this staged view of 'sexy' technicians.
1- I don't wear white in the field because I actually work and therefore I get dirty.
2- I don't need a push up bra, thank you very much. Good genes.
3- I don't know any female archaeologist who wear torn denim skirts. I can afford decent clothes to work in and I want to protect my legs from poison ivy, thorns, crawling things, snakes (even the fantasy whip girl wears thigh-high boots-David (blog site) you are naughty!)... you know the kinds of things one encounters when in the field but then I don't own a ten-inch trowel to blind all living things when they approach.
4- I don't usually get to work in a soft bedded clearing with a convenient log to rest my weary clipboard. I am usually slogging a few miles through thicket or rugged terrain or in and out of canyons so I leave my 'cowboy boots' at home, along with my tailored safety vest as I wear mine to keep dumb hunters from shooting at me.
5- If I wore sleveless low-necked tops and were to be photographed 'as sexy', I be darned sure I wasn't so pasty looking, but wait... if I work outdoors in Utah in early September I might have a bit of a healthy pallor being out in the desert. Wouldn't I?
6-Utah crew?
I just hope that the photo is depicting a fieldschool group and not folks on a paying project. Yes, women in the US do face discrimination, also. The photo doesn't help the situation. And I would ask who is judging the 'sexy competition'? If I were one of the people in the photo, I might think twice if I were considering archaeology as a career not a summer camp and had this photo as above viewed around the globe. This image will be around a long time, think about that when they go for their next job interview.
1- I don't wear white in the field because I actually work and therefore I get dirty.
2- I don't need a push up bra, thank you very much. Good genes.
3- I don't know any female archaeologist who wear torn denim skirts. I can afford decent clothes to work in and I want to protect my legs from poison ivy, thorns, crawling things, snakes (even the fantasy whip girl wears thigh-high boots-David (blog site) you are naughty!)... you know the kinds of things one encounters when in the field but then I don't own a ten-inch trowel to blind all living things when they approach.
4- I don't usually get to work in a soft bedded clearing with a convenient log to rest my weary clipboard. I am usually slogging a few miles through thicket or rugged terrain or in and out of canyons so I leave my 'cowboy boots' at home, along with my tailored safety vest as I wear mine to keep dumb hunters from shooting at me.
5- If I wore sleveless low-necked tops and were to be photographed 'as sexy', I be darned sure I wasn't so pasty looking, but wait... if I work outdoors in Utah in early September I might have a bit of a healthy pallor being out in the desert. Wouldn't I?
6-Utah crew?
I just hope that the photo is depicting a fieldschool group and not folks on a paying project. Yes, women in the US do face discrimination, also. The photo doesn't help the situation. And I would ask who is judging the 'sexy competition'? If I were one of the people in the photo, I might think twice if I were considering archaeology as a career not a summer camp and had this photo as above viewed around the globe. This image will be around a long time, think about that when they go for their next job interview.
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