Eleanor Cocker

Eleanor is a feminist. That is all that needs to be said.

Background

Well, actually Eleanor is another one of those strange people who thought it would be a good idea to go to BRGS,and obviously did not learn from her mistakes by deciding to also go to Sixth Form. Some people never learn ......

She first became involved in "the group" when she decided to ignore her form and began camping out in the basement locker room with Dani etc. and when she had many lessons with these people. Fond memories include Latin (all of it) and being sick when someone put mustard in her mouth that she really wasn't expecting.

Sixth Form Life

Another member of the Locker Room Crew (until they took it away), Eleanor is now one of the scary obnoxious people who haunts the back table of the lower common room, preaching death and destruction to Year 12. Whilst she does see the point of certain people in last year's Year 13 when they treated us like crap, she still maintains that we were nowhere near THAT annoying. For example, she can't see how sitting quietly minding her own business warranted someone throwing an apple at her head, but then again maybe she doesn't understand the complex reasoning of...erm...morons. Mind you, she did cheat and had several friends in the year above, as well as being "involved" with one of them, so she does admit that it may be fair to claim she has a vested interest as far as that one is concerned.

Eleanor, like Kirsty is a silly person taking way too many subjects, but unlike Kirsty she hasn't had the sense to drop any. Her subjects are English Lit, History, Religious Studies, Psychology, General Studies and Critical Thinking, in addition to the extension award for psychology as she's just THAT silly.

However, she does have great friends to keep her on the not so straight-and narrow, such as Dani, Becky, Chris, Sam and Jono. Her hobbies include imposing strict controls on lunatic boyfriend Tom who has since left for a life of computer games geekdom, and when he isn't around, she teaches Kirsty to do the same with Sam. So far unsuccessfully

Feminism

Eleanor's widely publicised feminist views have led to many an argument with chauvinist Becky although Becky did briefly convert to feminism then quit because it hurt her elbows. But obviously Eleanor is right because she always is. Tom has learnt this by now, and after over two years has come to terms with life as a feminist. She can often be found reading "Feminist Literature" (according to Becky) which began with Margaret Atwood but has now been extended to cover absolutely any book she is seen with. Any feminist literature must be read with one elbow on the table, which hurts Becky's elbows apparently. Voted "Most Likely To Wear The Pants In A Relationship", largely because she already does, Eleanor's fame as a feminist has spread. But she isn't a vegetarian whatever anyone may say.

The Moral High Ground

Having been officially declared the moral high ground by Dani, Eleanor is usually the person who is gravitated towards for advice when the menfolk behave badly. In general this is good advice, although killing them usually comes into it somewhere. She does tend to be regarded as the mother figure of the group, having adopted several of her friends on occasion, largely due to the fact that whenever they all go out she is the only one not too inebriated to remember who she is, who everyone else is, and where she lives. As things stand, Eleanor does offer relationship counselling and is beginning to think she ought to charge, as no-one will give her a job (she blames her unemployability on the fact that the stereotype of geniuses having no common sense exists. Either that or the employers are sexist). She is a very well behaved person who does not drink or smoke and who therefore judges people who do. Like Becky. A topic still under heated debate is whether the concept of "Becky Wins" or Eleanor's moral-high ground status takes precedence. Eleanor is tempted to go for the latter...

Eleanor is a blood donor and spends a lot of time pestering everyone else to be one too. "It's only a needle you wimp" is one of her favourite utterances. She considers an evening spent parting with a pint of blood quite an enjoyable activity and can't understand why more people don't do it. She has since come to the conclusion that they are possibly very selfish.

Considering her views, Eleanor is often viewed, with Jono, as one of the saner inhabitants of the back table, usually being the only reason that Becky and Dani attend any English Lit. lessons whatsoever. Towards the end of the year, when most lessons didn't happen anyway, or were taken up by blatantly ignoring the teacher and doing leaver's books instead, she did give up on persuading these miscreants to do any work but she does take some credit for having tutored Becky in English - they did ten whole minutes of work and spent the rest of the time bitching!

In year 13 she spent many hours with Jess attempting to put the yearbook together, and which did, despite everyone's expectations, get published! Admittedly Mr Morriss did most of it after they left, but oh well.

Evil Genius

The proud owner of six and a half A grades at A-level (the half is clearly important) Eleanor has since left BRGS to read English at Homerton College, Cambridge, a decision that she is rapidly regarding as an unwise one. Although she is all alone down there she gets to see her friends lots in the holidays which always pleases her. Often found to be camping out at Bolton University with Tom, Eleanor knows she should probably be doing a lot more uni reading than she currently is but is finding it rather hard to care. Plus she is a Facebook addict which never helps.