{"id":268,"date":"2003-11-01T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=268"},"modified":"2003-11-01T20:40:07","modified_gmt":"2003-11-01T20:40:07","slug":"gender_roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Gender Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got back from seeing the director’s cut of Alien<\/a>. I was only six when it was originally released in the theaters, so I never got to see properly it until now. It still ranks as one of the grungiest science fiction films ever made, with Blade Runner a close second. And I think it’s one of the first movies to establish that women can play strong, kick-ass protagonists without losing their essential femininity. Sigourney Weaver’s character set the stage for Buffy and Alias and Lara Croft, among countless others.
\nI was on my way to a meeting at a federal building in St. Paul the other day when something odd happened. We had to go through a security checkpoint and the guard instructed my nurse to bring “her over here.” Her being me. He referred to me as “her” a couple more times before we were through and I didn’t bother correcting him, figuring it wasn’t worth my time. But this has happened to me a few times and I’m not sure why. I don’t know if it’s my small size or my hair or if people just don’t look. One of my other nurses told me I don’t make an attractive woman. Not that I make an attractive man either, but that’s just my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got back from seeing the director’s cut of Alien. I was only six when it was originally released in the theaters, so I never got to see properly it until now. It still ranks as one of the grungiest science fiction films ever made, with Blade Runner a close second. And I think […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-4k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}