Saturday, 11 August 2012

Guybrarians? What Happened to simply Librarians...


This week I’ve decided to take a look at the Annoyed Librarian’s blogs. After looking over a few I found one which sounded really interesting, titled ‘Just What is a Guybrarian?’. This blog is found at http://annoyedlibrarian.blogspot.com.au/2008_02_01_archive.html (viewed 11/08/2012). 

Well in this particular blog, that was posted 13/02/2008, the Annoyed Librarian takes a couple hundred words to tell us about a term being tossed around, ‘guybrarian’, a follow-up on a previous blog. The whole piece has a rather sarcastic and overall humorous tone as the author talks about ‘guybrarians’, what they are and whether or not all male librarians can be counted under this so-called title.

The blog post was quite amusing, written as somewhat of a joke in response to a comment left on a post from about two week before. I admit I had never heard of the term ‘guybrarian’ before so I learnt a new word today! And while I knew that librarians were typically female I did not know that there was such a strong stereotype imbedded into some peoples brains that they had to come up with something like ‘guybrarian’. 

I believe that despite this new knowledge presented to me today I shall continue doing as I have always done…And call male librarians, librarians.


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