{"id":4966,"date":"2018-05-12T14:01:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2018-05-12T14:01:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T21:01:56","slug":"little-lady-the-gamer-edition-scenic-cruising-alaska-05-10-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4966","title":{"rendered":"Little Lady: The Gamer Edition \u2013 Scenic Cruising , Alaska \u2013 [05\/10\/2018]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Some of you may have been reading these pages long enough to remember my various distasteful encounters with what I lovingly call the \u2018Little Lady\u2019 attitude. The idea that \u2018you don\u2019t need to trouble your head about that little lady, you wouldn\u2019t possibly understand\u201d. Now ,I am all for men being Gentlemen, and the idea that chivalry is not dead is something that I really hope is true \u2013 by all means hold the door for me, but please don\u2019t think that that means I can\u2019t<\/em> hold it myself.<\/p>\n

Or in this case\u2026<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t come into my class, see that I\u2019m a little short girl of slight build, who does \u2013 on occasion \u2013 wear her hair in double pigtails and has a fascination with cartoon characters\u2026and assume<\/em> that I don\u2019t have the answers to your questions.<\/p>\n

This morning, I had my most recent encounter with this \u2026or I guess close to this\u2026attitude. More like general negativity joined with just a slight tinge of condescending\u2026a rather irritating combination in a student. So, a few things I couldn\u2019t say at the time:<\/p>\n

Sir, I work for the cruise line, not for the software company, I just teach<\/em> the software company. Please do not assume that just because I am unable to answer questions that are completely<\/em> outside of my field of training is worthy of a dismissive eyeroll, you are asking me something that is so far out of my department is the equivalent of asking an engineer a plumbing question. And if you\u2019re already coming in here with the attitude of hating the operating system (when in reality, you bought an off-brand computer that was apparently malfunctioning from the start, and has nothing to do with the operating system) then how on earth am I supposed to teach you anything? And by the way, the shift away from physical media? DVDs and the like disappearing in favour of digital download? That can\u2019t be blamed on any<\/em> one company, that is a general shift in the market combined with the general public trend to \u2026I don\u2019t know, want to cut back on unnecessary damage to the environment that is caused by overprinting and overpackaging? And also by the way, it\u2019s the internet websites and search engines that generate the adverts online, not<\/em> your computer system so nope, we\u2019re not to blame for that either. That\u2019d be the equivalent of blaming the movie producers for the trailers that run before the film.<\/p>\n

But the kicker really came when he made the mistake of thinking that I wasn\u2019t going to \u2018understand the requirements of a gaming machine.<\/p>\n

Oh dear, sir, don\u2019t go there\u2026I may not be competitive level, I may not play a lot<\/em> but the things I do play I play hard. And the game he chose as an example? Just happened to be Amras\u2019 virtual battle game. I played the game myself for only one summer, and I was terrible at it, but as Amras and I try to keep up with each other\u2019s hobbies (the poor boy probably knows more about Titanic than he probably ever wanted to) \u2013 I know rather a lot about that game and<\/em> it\u2019s requirements\u2026therefore the conversation went something like this:<\/p>\n

Guest: you probably wouldn\u2019t know this but there a game called\u2026WoT<\/em><\/p>\n

Me: Aw man that\u2019s a HUGE resource hog! Did you get the new graphics update? There\u2019s no way that you\u2019re going to be able to run that on anything older than a 3 year old CPU, and you\u2019ll need a killer fast graphics card. Otherwise the ping rate is going to absolutely kill<\/u> you because your chip won\u2019t be able to keep up with the demand. I mean the download *alone* for those new graphics took a whole day!<\/em><\/p>\n

And he just blinks. It\u2019s only a millisecond, but you can totally see it cross his face \u201cthis girl games<\/em>?\u201d.<\/p>\n

I did not tell him of course that my game of choice is Call of Duty, or Civ 6, or Fallout (3 or Vegas, pick your poison)\u2026and that the only reason I knew anything<\/em> about the game he was talking about was because my fianc\u00e9 has been playing it for years. He didn\u2019t need to know that particular piece of information \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I so<\/em> should have asked him if he had the new Italian tanks\u2026<\/p>\n

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