Morning everyone,

I hope that you used to watch Clarissa Explains It All, because it was a wonderful show. Here is an interview with its creator; I enjoyed when he talked about trying to make a show that any age or gender could enjoy, because I and my father still have in jokes that come straight from this show.

The thing about Clarissa is that she never lost. If Clarissa wasn’t winning the way she wanted to, she redefined what winning was.

http://flavorwire.com/485077/flavorwire-interview-clarissa-explains-it-all-creator-mitchell-kriegman-on-the-shows-legacy-hubcaps-and-gender-politics

Here’s an article on the roles women tend to assume in companies, which I enjoyed as a reminder to look more closely at who’s making the rules, who’s enforcing the rules, who gets to break them and who has to keep them. The “enforcement via empathy” part of this rang very true for me, although I’d not noticed it as a pattern before – my own job often involves making people feel happy about doing what I want them to do, but I’d thought of that as a characteristic, rather than a category, of work.

Maybe the answer isn’t in distinguishing the work one does from support work, but in learning from it and advocating for it.

https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/learning-the-rules-empathy-and-enforcement

Alex.