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It would be an ✨H O N O U R✨

Adding this to the mind map!

People should talk about Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure more

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While I am still going through my masterpost plan bit by bit, I want to know what content you’re most interested in seeing from me.

Let me know via asks, comments, or even dms!

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For those of you interested in my YouTube channel

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Harvard anon here and I GOT 4/5 ON MY RECENT QUIZ AND I HAVEN'T GOTTEN THAT BEFORE AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

You’re doing it babyyyy!!!! You’re doing it!!!!

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Winx Video!

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Harvard anon here!! I dunno if I'd really call it optimism persay but I came too far to give up now and even if I quote on quote "fail" the course, at least I can say that as an indigenous queer person that I did it and I'm the first member of my family to attend Harvard university even if online when a few generations ago my family was dirt poor!!

Wow!! Sounds like you’ve succeeded to me! I was first in my family too, and it feels kickass, right? Just keep in mind that Harvard really is the dream, and even if it’s not optimism, it is a bomb attitude bestie.

You’re doing amazing sweetie!!

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Harvard anon here !! The course is all completely online so there's no campus or study groups or libraries or anything like that but I haven't even considered studying outside of the lecture material on the topics discussed but now that you mention it that's probably a good idea!! I'm currently on Lecture 11 out of all 24 lectures (Lectures 11, 12 and 13 and then the third quiz and then Lectures 14, 16 and 16 and then the fourth and semifinal quiz before the last quiz then the final exam which I'm grateful for because there isn't as much material to study for the next two groups) and the whole course deadline is supposed to end in, like, August. I hope to finish up before at least June begins but I'll definitely keep your advice in mind!! ✨

Ok brilliant, sounds like you have a lot of optimism, and I’m glad at least some of my advice was useful!

I’ll say also, you can still find groups! There’s a very big chance that there could be Facebook groups that could be useful, or possibly even a Discord server.

You can also ask friends who aren’t on your course to help you study.

Keep me posted, girl, because I’m sooo invested in getting you through this course lol. Lmk if there’s anything else you want advice on and I hope I can help!!

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Stereotypically Feminine Careers Throughout History

My exploration of Careers for the Masterpost begins with a mostly-for-fun exploration of what common jobs for women there were in history.

Women have always worked; lower class women sold the dresses of their welfare counterparts as a simple example. However,  historically women have commonly been discouraged from leaving the home and only recently have conditions of working women been commonplace- and y’all know we have a long way to go!

Let’s look at some jobs in which women have been seen historically and some female-dominated fields today.

NOTES

domestic work is work stay at home mothers or anyone else in a homemaker Val cooks and cleans among other tasks and a mask to work and domestic work deserves value. That’s a topic for another day however so let me know if you want to see that.

I’m not going all the way back to ancient Egypt on this one folks I’m also not globetrotting that is the level of research I’d love to do with funding but a lack my fans are dry but my coffee is linked at the end of this this is going to be from about 1900 to present it.

1900s textile industry

1910s see above

1920s nurses, clerks, teachers

1930s mechanics during war effort

1940s see above

1950s rise of the MLM with Tupperware parties

1960s secretaries, cleaners, typists

1970s growth in women in health service

1980s see above

By 1997, 64% of women were employed, and in present day, numbers vary by source.

Let’s look at what fields are the greatest employers of women.

Nurses: 97.8%

Legal Secretaries: 95.17%

Child minding: 94.75%

PA/Secretary: 94%

Teaching Assistant: 90.4%

It is interesting to me how little has changed, and I’d bet many of you are no more surprised than I.

Mine is not to wonder why… not in this post!

Sources: Striking Women, Mina Le, Career Smart

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inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.

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hey girl it's the harvard anon here and i got 2/5 on my graded 2nd quiz and last time i got 3/5 and im lowkey so annoyed especially because i was up all last night studying & doing the lectures like damn y'all use words that ive Never seen y'all use in the lectures, like, i'm glad I at least got some of the questions right but still 😭

Hey girl! Sorry you’re struggling!! Let’s talk about how to ask for help.

Who can you go to?

Do you have a rapport with your lecturer?

If not, is it too late to send an email?

From my understanding, American universities tend to have like… teaching assistants also? Do have a rapport with any of them?

If not, could you send a few emails?

Don’t be intimidated. Most likely, they’re all really chill people who are genuinely passionate about the subject and who genuinely want to help people succeed. The arseholes are rare but even they know it reflects better on them when their students succeed.

Are there study groups?

Does your subject have a club/society?

What about friends in your class?

And of course, the internet.

Oh, and look for resources such as study support (they can have different names) who essentially you can go to, usually like an hour a week, and who help you with things you may struggle with. This is often available to disabled students, and abled students can also often avail of the services, it just depends what’s available.

Now, of course, the specific point you brought up was a problem with vocabulary. So let’s talk about that.

Google is a hellscape, but search engines are your friend

Do you have a source such as a vocabulary guide for your subject, a glossary, or even just a straight-up dictionary of terms. If you’re not sure, ask an academic librarian for help. And honestly? Just a regular librarian in your local, off-campus library, if the former is intimidating… this is part of my pro-libraries agenda.

Let’s talk also about studying.

Sorry, but cramming is for emergencies only. I don’t know if you did cram, but you said you studied all night. I’m wondering if you need to change your routine

I have plenty of resources of my blog on: different kinds of learners and what helps them (including what helped me) scheduling, etc. I still have work to do on the #pink academia masterpost project, but everything in my study series ought have that tag.

Do your own research

Ask people you know

And girl, sleep is good for your brain.

The most important thing tho is not giving up!! You can do this! You CAN do this!!

HOWEVER

I also want to make it clear that there is no shame in doing so either. If this situation isn’t right for you, get on out.

With that disclaimer out of the way, remember that the best thing you can do is maintain your inner peace, and to remember that a Positive Attitude Changes Everything.

This test does not define you. You are the lexicographer of your own life ok? You define you.

TLDR: ask for help, change your study routine, sleep is good for you, there’s no harm in dropping out, HOWEVER remember to be positive and you can achieve what you’ve worked for.

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I’m really proud of this one, I swear to got Rock Angelz specifically altered my brain chemistry.

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Going (Back) to School as an Adult

Hi Girlies! If you want to go to university for the first time as an adult, or you’re going back after time away, or even if you’re going to a college or something, here’s my advice!

1. It’s really not that intimidating at all- EVERYONE is doing it these days. My university was about 60% mature students, fun fact, so you will NOT be the only one there. Fun fact: I turned 20 in HIGH SCHOOL- that’s a whole story lol- so yeah; being older is a non-issue

2. It’s SO accesible these days

- University

- Colleges

- Night classes

- Online classes

3. Keep in mind: keeping up your inquisitiveness is

- good for your intellectual health

- Good for society

- * expanding your mindview keeps you understanding young people in your area, your own (future) kids and grandkids, and generally just have an understanding of what’s going on in the world outside your circles

- * university settings also expose you to such an expanded circle beyond your hometown/local area etc

I’m going back to school in September, and these were some of the thought processes that I rationalised in my brain, so I hope they help any of you in the same boat! We’ve got this!

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Jackie, Marilyn, and Elle: Comparing and Contrasting two ICONS to remind us that Warner was WRONG

Too BLONDE?? An Introuction

Elle Woods’ iconic journey in Legally Blonde is prompted by Warner Huntington III breaking up with her.The comments made are how Warner needs to be “serious,” and the deep blow of how if he’s to be a senator, he needs to marry “a Jackie, not a Marilyn.”

While in the musical, the scene adds an implication that Warner thinks Elle is “tacky,” Elle’s thought process leads her to summarise Warner’s viewpoint as being that Elle is “too blonde.”

Warner sees Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy as being two polar opposites- one the sultry actress knows for ‘bimbo’ film roles, and the other the respectable wife of the President of the United States.

But Elle can’t fathom differences between these women aside from their appearance.

Let us analyse what can be compared and contrasted between two iconic women.

In the climax of Legally Blonde, Elle discovers that Chutney Wyndham is the real perpetrator due to her knowledge of hair care. As Elle notes, “any Cosmo girl would’ve known.” It is Elle’s feminine knowledge that guides her to victory in her very first trial. With that in mind, let us examine the feminine knowledge of Marilyn and Jackie as our real-life role models to Elle Woods, and uncover just why she sees so little difference between these fascinating women.

A note before we begin: this is not a competition. But Warner sees it that way, and the purpose therefore is to remind him just how wrong he is.

Marilyn Monroe: Political Powerhouse

Firstly, Marilyn Monroe is known to most as either the glamorous actress of 1950s films- such as the notorious Gentlemen Prefer blondes, which certainly could have influenced Elle’s mindset, especially with the pink drama of the Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend sequence. Others may know her from regularly recreated images, such as her holding her blowing-up skirt from The Seven Year Itch, or the pop art portrait by Andy Warhol.

Either way, the most prominent images in the heads of many in regards to Marilyn Monroe are glamorous, sexy, feminine- and blonde and pink, of course.

Famously, like Elle, Marilyn’s femininity and sex appeal lead her to being boxed into roles of the comedic blonde bombshell, though the fought to be out of her typecasting.

After the success of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and “How to Marry a Millionaire,” Marilyn was offered what would have been a third ‘dumb blonde’ in “The Girl in Pink Tights,” she not only refused, but CNN’s article ‘How Marlyn took the male-led film industry and flipped it on its head” notes that she reportedly labelled it “Trash.”

In that same article, Mira Sorvino is quoted. “She was the main attraction,” the actress notes, saying “she was the reason people flocked to the theatre. So it was insane that she wasn’t in a more powerful position in terms of salary.” The reference here is to Marilyn’s discovery that Frank Sinatra, her would-be co-star in “The Girl in Pink Tights” was offered $5000, while Marilyn was offered $1,500- a third of Frank’s pay.

The article points out that Marilyn’s contract was changed after the snub, showing Marilyn to be valuing her feminine charm and wiles that made her studio so much money and garnered them so much attention. Is this why Warner does not wish for Elle to see Marilyn as aspirational, given she was something of an upstart?

Not to mention, Warner doesn’t seem like the biggest advocate for equal pay…

A lesser-known contribution that Marilyn made to her society was in the civil rights movement, drawing attention to Ella Fitzgerald.

The Biography article by Sara Kettler titled “Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe: Inside Their Surprising Friendship” opens with a photo of the songstress and the starlet smiling together in conversation. Kettler notes how Marilyn helped Ella get a gig in Mocambo, the famous LA nightclub. Marilyn “promised to come every night” that Ella was booked, and to “bring along other celebrities.” With this promise of publicity, Ella was granted several weeks employment at the famous club.

Kettler also notes that, despite Ella’s success, some clubs would hire Ella, but still have her enter through the side door “due to the colour of her skin.” In order to combat such prejudice, Marilyn “refused to go inside unless both she and Fitzgerald were allowed through the front doors.

Marilyn may not have been dying on the front lines of the civil rights movement, but she was using her status to forward the career of someone directly affected by said movement.

Marilyn used a name built as a blonde bombshell in order to be an influential activist, just as Elle Woods being a Cosmo girl is what won her her first legal trial.

Have we emphasised enough that Warner doesn’t know his rear end from his elbow when it comes to powerful women? Perhaps Warner doesn’t want a Marilyn, not because she’s blonde, but because she was an upstart who knew her own mind and fought to make her own way in the world. Is that just too much for him to handle?

Jackie Kenney: First Lady of Fashion

On the side of Jackie Kennedy, later Jackie Onassis, she is of course best known due to her time as First Lady of the United States. She was from a respectable family, studied French literature in university, and is perceived largely as classy, elegant, and educated. To this day, she is cited as an image of grace, with This week in Libraries magazine writing “In the realms of elegance, poise, and grace, one name reigns supreme- Jackie Kennedy.”

While Jackie’s other accomplishments are not to be overlooked, let us focus on traditionally feminine aspects of life that she has embodied to remember the value of both aspects of her, and of Elle.

As Vogue writes, “Before Jackie graced the halls of the White House, she trod those of this very magazine,” referring to her job as junior editor of Vogue, immediately showing that, like Elle, Jackie not only had political potential, but fashion icon potential early on in her life.

It should be noted that Jackie “quit by mid-morning,” as the environment was not suited to her goals, however, she is still heavily associated with the magazine as she contributed to salvaging the Temple of Dendur, which has played host to the Met Gala, as noted by Vogue.

This Week in Libraries also notes Jackie as a “Style Icon,” praising her boucle suits, pearls, and, of course, her pillbox hats- the latter being described as “synonymous  with her name.”

It’s also not just her connection with Vogue that cements Jackie’s name in the world of fashion, as countless articles have addressed her style as “timeless” or “iconic,” so why exactly does Warner have such an issue with committing to a woman with a degree in fashion merchandising?

Town and Country’s list “11 Brands Jackie Kennedy Loved” notes how Gucci named the Jackie bag after her, and I wish for that kind of influence for Elle Woods, which I thibk highlights just how much of an influence that Jackie would have potentially had on Elle.

Warner, your Jackie was in front of you all along.

And of course, while steeped in tragedy, it is nonetheless fair to say that one of the most iconic images of Jackie is of her pink suit on the day of her husband’s assassination. Loathe to overlook the horrors of such an event, but be that as it may, it emphasises that Jackie Kennedy is just as pink and pretty as Marilyn Monroe.

In the Legally Blonde sequel Red, White, and Blonde, Elle even sports a tribute to this suit, which really sends home how far Warner is from the mark.

On that note, let us now discuss beautiful pink outfits worn by Jackie to intensify how connected Jackie can be to Elle. Firstly, the aforementioned suit became an iconic moment of defiance as Jackie bore the bloodstains, cited as saying “let them see what they’ve done.”

She also had a similar sleeveless suit designed by Oleg Cassini, as well as a matching coat and hat worn in New Delhi.

One of her other beautiful pink moments was a floor length, strapless Dior gown worn with white opera gloves. Other pink outfits include a dress with a unique pink bow detail by Joan Morse, and a high-collared suit by Oleg Cassini. The point here is not to simply list pink outfits, but to remind us that a woman- such as Elle- can be fashionable, elegant, and bright pink, AND be a force of change.

Elle Woods knows that Marilyn and Jackie had it all: fashion girl status, and cultural and political know-how; and frankly, it’s lucky for her that Warner knew less about these iconic women than she did.

Always have Faith in Yourself

And to my masculine girls, you’re the real winners here, because Warner would probably be threatened by your vibes. Not only are you valid, but take comfort in not attracting Warner Huntington III.

Let us remember to value our own self worth, just as Elle did when she shows us all how valuable she could be- and she did it in a playboy costume.

WE DID IT!! To Conclude

In conclusion, my place is not to overlook one woman, or pit her against another; it is not to overlook one woman’s achievements and put them against the achievements of another woman; it is not even to claim traditional femininity as a pinnacle of achievement, or to explore what it means to be a feminist, or anything so grandiose.

My intention here is just to remind us all, whether we relate more to the story of a Marilyn or a Jackie, to always have faith in ourselves, and to always remember that the Warner Huntington III we have in our own lives is a bonehead.

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Studying for Fun

Ok, Girlies, Part of me was like “duh, Queenie, they know how to have fun;” but then I realise that what I actually needed to do was provide advice for structured fun- not to mention resources!!  So, those are my two points for today.

Part 1: Structure

You know what your actual timetable looks like, but here’s a sample one that I’ve made that might help you add structure to your day

Now here’s how to actually do that

List out every single thing you HAVE to do in a week- work, studying etc, but also tidying, cleaning, what day is laundry day.

Make up a grid like this, or do a list of times, however you’d prefer. Fill in all the immovable things- work*,lectures- and then fill the moveable things- study time, exercise, travel time to your lectures- around them.

if you work shifts, you may need to do this weekly 3. Be realistic. Are you actually going to wake up at 5:00? Girl, are you not going to socials on Wednesday nights? Are you not going to need a little bit more time in bed on a Thursday morning? You know what makes sense for you. But also, can you realistically get all the things you need to do done if you wake up at 10 and go to bed by 6?

I’m using silly examples, but I think you get the point that you need to make sure you are working healthily for your lifestyle.

Let me know if you want a more in-depth tutorial on this!

Another idea that can really help for structure and discipline is parallel play … that’s a phrase usually thrown about in child development, but whatever…

Parallel play or body doubling is essentially two or more people working on two separate tasks, but in the same space.

study with your friends

Set goals with your friends

Call them and exercise together

Accountability buddies are how you keep up structure.

Part Two: resources

These are some of my favourite places to learn things

(Yes, I do like history, how did you guess?)

*i don't use duolingo anymore bc of the whole ai, staff layoff thing... but I thought I ought include it...

Here's some others!!

Ok I'm DONE!!

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Thank you for thinking of me!! I LOVE answering these sorts of questions, they make me very happy.

Favourite Song at the Moment: Quarter Life Crisis by Baby Queen

Favourite Obsession of your Life: Writing my Posts and Videos!

Celebrity Crush: David Tennant and Natasia Demetriou

Favourite Food and Drink: Gyoza and Coke Zero

What place would you love to live in: When I finish my teacher training, my partner and I are looking at Derry (Northern Ireland) and Edinburgh… but I also had a dream once about living in LA lol

Style: I’m working on a wardrobe inspired by Draculaura… so like very rom-comcore, but also a lil bit “creature of the night.” Cute, flirty, and dangerous!

Favourite Hobby: I spend most of my time researching for posts and videos, ideally in the corner of a cafe.

Favourite Mutual: girl, if we’re mutuals, you’re my favourite mutual

Making this open to anyone who wants to do this!! Sorry, too shy to tag anyone specific lol

girlblogger questions ♡

nobody tagged me but I wanted to try this!!

favorite song at the moment? you make me sick! by ashnikko

favorite obsessions of your life? grunge, photography, psychology, true crime

celebrity crush? Evan peters and megan fox

favorite food and drink? sushi and boba tea

what place would you like to live in? nyc

style? grunge/grunge fairycore/dark academia/rockstar gf

favorite hobby? listening to music

favorite mutuals? @strawberrihart @mutilatedtomb @vixxensvoid @vampiiiyr @his-littlefox @sapphicsubbyprincess @madibadibear08 @karynacranberrie @kaianders0nslut @mitskistevens @sugarcandydoll @writtenbywonyoung @neonnovember @hrts4kenny