Hers Day Thursday

It's Hers Day Thursday, and how better to celebrate than by watching women with crimped hair dance and smile because of tampons?

Hers Day Thursday

You are a failure. Look at your lipstick.

Hey, you! Yeah, you! That lady over there! Do you ever feel like a failure? Do you ever think that nothing ever seems to work out for you? Do you just wish people would give you the credit you deserve? Do you know deep down that you're good enough, but still feel like it'll never matter because no one takes you seriously? Do you ever worry that you'll never get any further in your life than you are right now, and you just can't stand that because where you are right now is NOWHERE??? DO YOU???????

It's because you're not wearing enough makeup, you stupid woman!

In fact, there's an entire article in the New York Times about it this week.

In summary, the article describes a study conducted at Harvard University, paid for by Proctor & Gamble, in which over a hundred people (mostly women) looked at photos of women with varying amounts of makeup. Some folks looked at the photos briefly to make snap judgements, and others looked at them for a while, so they could ponder Girl X with no makeup vs. Girl X with whore face.

Super successful ancient whore face

Not shockingly at all, snap judgers and ponders all agreed that woman needs whore face. Without her whore face, she looks stupid, shifty, incompetent, barely fit to wander through our kitchens barefoot and pregnant. With whore face, she is a lovely whore. And we like those.

Heck, even the ancient Greeks liked those. And they invented homosexuality Democracy!

But the study did state to not overdo it! Whore face is good and proves that you are obviously better suited for a job than the barefaced woman with more experience. However, Tranny Whore Face is TOO FAR! If you are the prettiest tranny whore face in the room, people will stop trusting you. Adjust your whore face according to the persona you'd like to project.

A natural, yet still completely covered in makeup, whore face look can make you seem balanced and collaborative. A deep red whore face lip color says, "I'm in charge here! I have my whore face on, and you don't scare me!"

Of course, everyone knows this look is the most effective at saying, "don't eff with me."

Hers Day Thursday

You dorks know of Dame Dr. Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, right? Right??

sexy, sexy glasses!

Oh. Well, you should, so here's some info for your mind brains.

Who is she? A 68 year old Irish astrophysicist.
What'd she do? DISCOVERED RADIO PULSARS!

Namely, this one CP 1919 ----->

While working towards her Ph.D, Jocelyn noted that regular radio wavelengths pumping through space. The wavelengths kept popping up on her charts from a radio telescope every 1.337 seconds, and Jocelyn, being an intelligent astrophysicist in training said something along the lines of, "obviously these radio wavelengths are coming from a far off rotating star and not from Little Green Men."

fancy wavelengths from CP 1919

She was totes right, ladies and germs. (That doesn't mean aliens don't exist!)


Shittily, her professors were awarded the Nobel Prize for a paper about the discovery of the first pulsar, and she was not. Being a classy broad, she holds no grudge.

Also, she's won a slew of medals, awards, and honorary degrees, including the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, since then to make up for it. And did I mention she's a Dame? Yeah. A Lady Knight.

How's that for Hers Day Thursday?

Extra Credit Reading here, here, here, and here.

Update 9:53PM This was on BBC Radio 4 a couple days ago. Who knew??

Hers Day Thursday

Again, with the theme days!

Thursdays shall be for the ladies. Not sure what I mean by that, but we'll discover as we go, yes? Good.

I had the great good fortune to attend the New York Comic Con this past weekend, where the surprise hit panel was Womanthology. Do you know about this? I did not before NYCC, dang if I ain't excited for it. See? It's got be typing in hick speak!

Womanthology is a comic anthology of all new material by 140 creators. Those 140 awesome (female) artists, inkers, colorists, and writers range from never picked up a pencil to been working in the industry long enough to retire. The whole thing started when artist Renae De Liz (of The Last Unicorn)  saw some self doubt cropping up COMPLETELY CONSUMING Twitter, and she tweeted out a call to women, to see if there was interest in a giant collaboration.

A few months later and the whole thing has EXPLODED! Women teamed up, and they crafted what sounds like (and looks like, based on the stuff I'm finding online. Try here and here and here) beautiful and exciting new work. A Kickstarter page was set up, with a goal of $30K. They currently have raised over $100K.

The graphic novel will be in your local comic book shop in January and available in major bookstores around March (according to the panelists at NYCC).

Anyway, back to the panel. Bonnie Burton, Mariah Huehner, Renae De Liz, Nicole Falk, Suzannah Rowntree. They all worked on Womanthology in one way shape or form, project managing, drawing, editing, and inspiring. They had a lot of great stuff to say about the work itself, but they also spoke about comics, art, and life in general. Well, really they talked about comics, but it can all be applied to life! That's the best part about comics!!

If you weren't there, I'm not gonna give you a play by play, but the gist of the whole panel was this: 1. Believe in yourself, 2. Keep doing what you want to do and don't ever think you can't, 3. Put it on the internet. We all wanna see/hear/learn about what you did! You rock! Put it into the universe.

I walked into the room not really knowing what I was going to hear or see, but I walked out feeling like I was Supergirl. (and not just because I chose to cosplay...)