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Russell, you are quoting my post but I have no idea what you are trying to say.
To clarify my point: we live in a sexist, racist, homophobic society and culture. It remains all over pop culture, common conversation, the media and the politicians. No one is completely cured of it, we all swim in the same polluted sea taking in the water. It’s nice…[Read more]

Stereotypes are all over the place, but I do not think that anyone who is honest with himself or herself can honestly say that (s)he has not worked with and/or for strong women and men, weak women and men, women with stereotypic behaviors and men with stereotypic behaviors, women who are back stabbers and men who are back stabber, women who go o…[Read more]

I let Martha have the last word for me…
“But Schwartz said that “the design school is a difficult place for woman designers to succeed.” Getting things done requires “force,” but “it’s damn unladylike to have an opinion to have an ego, it’s antithetical to get things done,” she said. “I’m a bit of a dancing bear.”
 

You know what bothers me the most about the responses in this post is that someone can post the blanket statement that all women are backstabbers. Literally. Typed that. Can you imagine if I typed something similar and sweeping about gay men, black men or Asian men? I wouldn’t. Because I am not that type of person…and I don’t make sweeping…[Read more]

Thanks for that link Dave its got some really interesting stuff on there 🙂
I’ve been caught up in doing survey plans and schematics at the moment so i havnt had a chance to sit down and have a proper think about the design. Ive done a few pencil sketches and i can see the value of a pencil and paper when coming up with concepts. I did have a…[Read more]

Good luck. I don’t use 3DS Max, but from what I understand, it has a very steep learning curve. You would be better off modelling in SketchUp and pairing it with a render engine.
But, if you are determined to stick with 3DS I would recommend posting at http://forums.cgarchitect.com/ and they might be able to steer you in the right direction.

But she’s not interested in strategizing how to proceed, she just wants other women to support her conclusion.
 
In asking to hear about other’s experiences, i was intending to glean insight into how others have handled similar situations, and perhaps get a few new ideas on effective strategies. Sorry if i didn’t spell that out in the original…[Read more]

…throw in a burka and you may have nailed it.

Expanding on craig’s comment…
 
Aside from what this thread reveals about our “culture of victimhood” (there is a whiff of “You think you’re a victim? No, I’m the victim!”) – which is just plain perverse — I can’t help noticing that BZGirl did not ask for help figuring out what to do about her status problem, but simply wanted to compare notes…[Read more]

And all I am saying, Heather, is that despite study after study, my experience in the workplace is that men are communal, co-operative – they like to operate like a team..they also LOVE to gossip, love to play sports together, and that is what holds their group together..Women, for some reason, that I have worked with, have not been communally…[Read more]

 
I’ve met Gehl, and he has high praise for LAs, as he thinks we are the only design profession that actually thinks about human interaction and human scale in design. We design with cognizance on how pedestrians will experience our work. Not true of planners who participate in ‘airplane design’ so things look good from above, but may not fun…[Read more]

We should have learned our lesson more than 50 years ago when Jane Jacobs wrote Death and Life of Great American Cities.

I am really surprised at the anger that is directed at you BZ Girl. I didn’t realize that there was a competition for most discriminated against. 😉 I will say though that the worst thing you could be is a black female I think it is in regards to worker discrimination…maybe a black, lesbian female would REALLY take the cake. I am a little…[Read more]

Trace,
You were the one that used basketball as an example of being a team player.
I tried to use the B-word to describe how people like you view women that are assertive. Land 8 inserted all the little doo dads.I would say when you say women are back stabbers that you are saying they are b-words. Wouldn’t you? You certainly aren’t saying they are…[Read more]

we can’t get funding for public education, but I’ll bet we could get funding for THAT study! ha!

What is your advice on how to best proceed for people who feel discrimination is keeping them down regardless of what type it may be?

nrschmid, your argument, your experience is not in contradistinction to ours – it is the same..Why do you deny us that we have experienced discrimination – that is silly.
 
and by the way, as a landscraper in the Hampton in the nineties, and eighties, I really felt like the gay mens club had shut everybody else out…
Your anger, while justified,…[Read more]

ok, different playbooks..still not convinced that any of the women you name compare in stature to guitarist men, but if you don’t know Jim Hall or Joe Pass, we are in different music scenes..I don’t know Joe Satriani or Eric Johnson at all..
 
do you insist that your list of women guitarists, in your music world, are as influential as the men? I…[Read more]

Then you haven’t listened to the music very well  – Anne Wilson is the singer, Nancy is the guitar player. If she doesn’t compare to the best the boys had to offer in the 70’s and 80’s then you’ve never listened to Heart. Rory Block is probably one of the best blues guitar players I’ve ever heard in my life. Ani DeFranco compares only to Prince i…[Read more]