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WCDT Strips 3816-3820 (27-31 August 2018)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 27 Aug 2018, 09:07 ---Note also that she's pulled off a pretty much flawless gender transition - no one she's met in strip so far has had a clue she used to be a boy unless she's told them. To some trans people that's an accomplishment of a lifetime. Claire's come up hard against the realization that getting the job she wants could be even more difficult.
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OK, your point is "Claire's overcome difficulties"(mod), but I want to prevent any flame fests that come from not acknowledging she was a girl from the time her brain got wired(/mod).
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Busch on 26 Aug 2018, 23:43 ---I always want to tell people that there's really only one way to be "privileged" that's actually real and works. It's not race or money or where you were born. It's connections.
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Welcome, new person!
Claire knows Hannelore. She's therefore a second-degree connection to Station on LinkedIn. Talk about friends in high places.
There's a thread in one of the other subforums about the concept of "privilege". (polite mod request)Please use it instead(/).
TheEvilDog:
Unless Claire is thinking that she's entitled to a librarian position.
At which point, I wonder if Claire realises exactly how much of her work would be dealing with books and how much would be dealing with people, faculty, students, meetings and researchers and so on. As Claire has proven on a couple of occasions, she's not exactly good with people, in which case Claire might be in for a rude awakening.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 27 Aug 2018, 10:29 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 27 Aug 2018, 09:07 ---Note also that she's pulled off a pretty much flawless gender transition - no one she's met in strip so far has had a clue she used to be a boy unless she's told them. To some trans people that's an accomplishment of a lifetime. Claire's come up hard against the realization that getting the job she wants could be even more difficult.
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OK, your point is "Claire's overcome difficulties"(mod), but I want to prevent any flame fests that come from not acknowledging she was a girl from the time her brain got wired(/mod).
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Correct. I cast that sentence from the viewpoint of a person meeting her for the first time.
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 27 Aug 2018, 10:46 ---Unless Claire is thinking that she's entitled to a librarian position.
At which point, I wonder if Claire realises exactly how much of her work would be dealing with books and how much would be dealing with people, faculty, students, meetings and researchers and so on. As Claire has proven on a couple of occasions, she's not exactly good with people, in which case Claire might be in for a rude awakening.
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A lot of this will depend on what library she gets a job with. Most are going to be primarily customer facing like you say. Public and school libraries you are going to spend most of your time dealing with people rather than books. Private or corporate libraries it's usually the flip side. I worked for a research facility in their reference library for a while. Aside from the other people that worked there I spoke to almost no one. The majority of my work was filling out information requests from the different labs. OSHA reference sheets, finding books or articles about requested subjects in the library and microfilm and collecting/checking in/re-shelving returned materials. Of course, this was a time before Google and the internet on everyone's phones.
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