And for the Bad…

So, we’ve seen the Good – often quite pretty or kinda-cool ladies (nobody had tagged solo male images as “librarian”, they only seem to turn up within groups or as part of a couple), doing things to do with books, reading, relaxing…that’s fine, I can go with that.

Now, we move on to the Bad (or Sexy Girls). There are two main librarian representation stereotype categories – there’s the nice girl, and then there’s these: the librarians who are obviously repressed, and are secretly just itching to rip their clothes off/show you their cleavage/stand over a handy airvent to flash their pants/ wear short, high-split skirts and stilettos, stockings and garter belts to work.

You know, the standard stuff that us librarians think about doing while trapped behind those big, nasty issue desks…