Thursday, August 24, 2006

I'm all for feminism


Okay, so this is a little side note. One of my teachers (a staunch feminist) showed us this slide in lecture. She introduced it saying that these things called caspases act as the executioner in the cell, killing everything inside. So, she goes on to explain, she searched for a picture of a hatchet on the internet to portray these executioner caspases. She came across this picture and said the following when she showed it to the class "here we see the woman doing (as in real life) all the work. There you see the man telling the woman what to do, and whether told to or not, we see the woman doing all the work." At this point the class was all laughing riotously. Trying to make a feminist joke, she turned the tables. This picture, of course, shows George Washington's father disapproval of his son's chopping down of his cherry tree. It has nothing to do with a man telling a woman what to do.

That is what the elves call the justice of the unicorns.

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