Tee hee?

[pen_grunt]

So this particular script with this particular client has been a bear. It's been an edit-by-committee script, which is frequently just fine. This time, it is not. The person on their end keeps putting things in that I keep taking out and s/he keeps putting back in...and I keep taking out.

After two or three rounds of hide-the-stupidity, I usually just give up and leave the crap in. After all, it is *their* script, they are the client, and my job is, in part, to make them happy.

But I have my limits. You see, there's a place in the script where the girl-who-gets-the-geek has computer jargon rattled off to her. I provided two options after much debate: She can either nod and join in--adding to the conversation with equal level of jargon, or nod and reiterate the information in Layman's terms (i.e. So what you're saying is...).

They want her to giggle and say, "Uh, in English please?" [Please note that this is AFTER she asks for clarification once in the script. So, uh, she really doesn't get it, apparently.]

Because girls are dumb, right? Girls cannot understand "technical" language. Girls cannot know about computers. Tee hee. *growl*

I'm not budging on this one. I will not make one of the lead characters and the only girl in the whole script the "dumb one".

Besides, if she's supposed to get-the-geek in the end, well, what geek wants a stupid girl? Sure, pretty, shallow, dumb girls can be fun for a bit, but if there's no substance they lose their luster quickly. Am I right geeky boys?

*growling at client and taking out the line...again*

Comments

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

I am a geeky guy, and I support your message.

Dumb is no fun, and there's nothing to talk about once your mouth isn't full.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

"...once your mouth isn't full"

*Snort* And doesn't that just get right to the heart of the matter? :)

[irishinmn.livejournal.com]

its not that the girl is dumb ..... but by "playing" dumb - she gets to reel the geek in .......

(Self confessed geek)

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

How on earth is acting retarded supposed to "reel someone in"? Unless of course the reelee is also stupid.

[irishinmn.livejournal.com]

I didn't say that it was a good idea or a desirable thing. Merely that it is a common effective tactic in the modern workplace.

I recently challenged a co-worker on this recently after I caught her playing the "dumb girl" routine and she freely admitted to it with the defense "but it gets things done".

I'm not defending the practice and people who know me know that I personally gravitate towards intelligent women.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I disapprove of the dumb routine. Playing dumb is the refuge of not being able to get what you want through more intelligent and resourceful means.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

i'm pretty sure my geek husband loves me for my brain. Actually, not sure what else he could love me for :)

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my geek husband loves telling people how smart he thinks I am when they ask him about what his wife is like. I would be incredibly sad if he just told them how "pretty" I was.

[pointedthings.livejournal.com]

Your client contributer watches too much FOX reality TV. Perhaps she's personally identifying with the character.

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

The only reason I bother talking to pretty, shallow, dumb girls is in the hopes that they magically have pretty, unshallow, smart friends. So far, this has been rather an abject failure, but hope springs eternal.

[purplesquirrel.livejournal.com]

Good for you! Break those stupid stereotypes!