Librarianship has, over the course of the last hundred years or so, become something of a pink collar career. Male librarians are viewed as statistical improbabilites—quota fillers and tokens, if you please.
This is mostly* unfair, and the ones I know prefer to think of themselves as Quality over Quantity.
Here’s proof:
This calendar not only celebrates the diversity of the men who labor in the library trenches, but all proceeds from each sale goes to the It Gets Better Project™ .
It almost doesn’t matter that Mr. January made me drop my gum and Mr. September . . . never mind.
So if you’re looking for a gift for those librarians (ahem) or library lovers (double ahem) on your list this winter, look no further. I know my Mom** is getting one.
As of this posting, five hundred calendars have been sold. What say we help out with the next hundred?
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*The token part, not the improbability part. I don’t know from quotas, but there’s no denying that there aren’t as many male librarians as there were in the beginning of the profession. There’s a theory that the switch happened when the Powers that Be realized it was cheaper to hire female librarians as general staff and keep the men in the admin positions . . . But that discussion clearly belongs in another post.
**The woman is crazy about, um, dachshunds . . . yeah . . . that’s it.
Earful of Cider 