[TheForge] Cal Lane

[Andy Gladish]

Karen, I feel quite fortunate that there are a few females who follow my  
blog that love my work AND think I'm hot...perhaps it's a nice feeling  
because it's by far the exception rather than the rule; I certainly  
wouldn't like it if they weren't respectful of the fact that I'm married  
or if it happened all the time...
I'm also very touchy about people being condescending, and it has nothing  
to do with gender issues, more about respect for the hard won knowledge I  
have- still, I tend to listen carefully whenever someone offers  
unsolicited advice- always seem to learn something, despite myself.
VERY cool work, I love the push toys!
Andy

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:56:34 -0800, Lucky7Steel <lucky7steel at gmail.com>  
wrote:


> On another note i'm still not over the
> "most_beautiful_smith_in_the_world" business even though it's been a
> few days. Depressing to me that this was how she was described.
> Although i've decided to add physical descriptions of all the men's
> work i think are hot from now on. ;-)
> Today i had to replace my acetylene regulator from my oxy/acet kit
> (which was over 9 years at least) and as i was leaving the shop, the
> guy felt the need to tell me how to adjust the working pressure on my
> tank! At first i thought he was trying to tell me something WAY more
> complicated because how on earth would he think i didn't know that
> when i just spoke at length about my regulator and had been in there
> tons of times. I've been doing metalwork for 20 years and almost every
> time i go to pick up supplies this happens. So, just to say, adding
> gendered descriptions to someone just because they are female does no
> one any good in the long run. Cal is very talented. If she wasn't
> 'attractive" would that make a difference?
>
> ~Karen~
> www.lucky7steel.com

Naive you are / if you believe / life favours those / who aren't naive.  
-Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)