Ten points to anyone who knows why this cast list made me squeal with delight.
I was looking through my old posts to find a quote I wanted to put on Facebook, which I didn’t find because apparently I’d put it on Facebook to begin with, but anyway, reblogging this. Because here’s why it made me squeal with delight:
The last two people are listed as “Lawyer” and “Male Lawyer”.
Pretty much any feminist can give you a good long speech about how “male” is the default in our world. I was eight the first time I noticed it, furious that the new basketball league was the WNBA, and demanding to know why the other wasn’t now called the MNBA. My parents did not have answers.
For the past 16 years, I’ve continued to be furious. Blogs like Sociological Images (which you should totally be reading) have only confirmed eight-year-old me’s suspicions about how the world works.
But here, it was a woman as the default. And in a stereotypically male profession, no less—if it were “Hairdresser” and “Male Hairdresser” that would be no less problematic. So, I squealed.
*The answer to the tagged question is Maz Jobrani (Prince Bitar in “The Stormy Present”).
**And the answer here is Albie Duncan.
