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  • First there was the inane term "guybrarian," which assumes that the default nature of a librarian is female, and now there's this.

    Funny and/or sad and/or disturbing. bradamant 2008

  • One point that the AL makes that has been echoed through other blogs and listservs is that the term 'guybrarian' offensive: "Apparently the label librarian is actually a feminine noun, instead of librarianship just being a feminized profession.

    Nicole Scherer: Librarians Rarely Make the News 2008

  • Another blogger, The Free Range Librarian concurs: "the" guybrarian "reference is" the rest of the world laughing at men who go into female-dominated professions.

    Nicole Scherer: Librarians Rarely Make the News 2008

  • Due to the gender balance in librarianship, the convention center temporarily turns the main floor men’s bathroom into a women’s room, and us ‘guybrarians’ have to use another floor.

    Ask a Manager Ask a Manager 2024

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  • If I had a list of truly awful words, this would be on it.

    October 31, 2012

  • I do and it is. Thanks.

    November 2, 2012

  • Yuck. Ohdearymeohmybrarian.

    November 5, 2012