Quote from: Scott Adams "Seven Years of Highly Defective People" 1997


When Tina [the Technical Writer] first appeared in the strip my e-mail turned into
a river of flame. Technical Writers blasted me for maligning their profession.
Women and men alike blasted me for what many considered a negative stereotype of women.

I knew I had a winner here.

I was fascinated by the accusations that Tina was a "too stereotypical" female
character. It raises a couple of interesting questions:

• 1. Who says "brittle" is a female stereotype?
• 2. Is it possible to create a nonstereotypical  character?

Apparently there is a list of stereotypes somewhere and under the female
column is the word "brittle." I was unaware of this list.
I can't say it squares with my observations.

My mother was my most formative female influence. She was born of farmer
stock. Mom could put a bullet through a deer's forehead at 300 yards and
did.  In fact, she kept a loaded rifle behind the kitchen door to blast bunny
rabbits that ventured near our garden. When she wasn't gunning down
innocent mammals she was hitting baseballs to my brother and me, or beating
us in tennis, or tooling around on her motorcycle.