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My (male) roommate and I recently started watching Mad Med on Netflix. After the first couple of episodes he made a comment to the effect of “Holy shit, that must be an awesome place to work”. I also think it might be cool to work in advertising but I got the impression that he was talking about something else all together (the way the women are treated). After following up with his comment he admitted that he wanted to work somewhere where he could drink in his office and, yes, have free range over the female employees. Disgusting! After he said this I got a bit angry and he tried to back-peddle, like men often do when you call them out on their bullshit, and attempted to justify this by saying that it was just a show and that his comment was “no big deal”. When I pointed out that women are still very much treated this way by men in the workplace he “called bullshit” and refused to accept the fact that women are viewed as sexual objects in the workplace and elsewhere. It’s been four days since this disagreement and I still can’t look at him. Men, you have no fucking right to tell a woman what here experiences are or have been and certainly no right to “call bullshit” on someone for stating the facts, whether you agree with them or not. Try shutting up and listening for once! —Looking to live elsewhere
This article appears in Apr 28 – May 4, 2016.
Another generalized comment from the peanut gallery. Look, if you want to be treated equally, stop hurling insults in an attempt to correct behaviour and/or change attitudes. It hasn’t worked in the past, doesn’t work now and won’t work in the future. I dare say it will turn your male supporters away.
CC and feminist tears, on the rocks. Breakfast of Champions.
Bullshit! Bitch.
Stop being a self entitled, whiny, bitch. I fucking hate you special snowflakes News flash the world doesn’t owe you a fucking thing.
it’s a man’s world dear. Always was, always will be.
I like this new mod. Putting something interesting up for the commenters to bitch about in time for the weekend — and I haven’t had a comment deleted in a while now.
I like how OB can call bullshit but doesn’t want her roommate to call bullshit. Calling bullshit on your bullshit calling, OB.
“Shutting up and listening for once” can be a huge conceptual problem for some people.
Yes, the new mod seems… “mod”. Thank you Mod!
Hey. You have no idea what my here experiences are.
ya, cause she wouldn’t like it if they had the gender bias reversed, right?
No, of course not. you ONLY want equality.
sure.
Smoking and drinking at work though…
is that why it’s the golden era?
Check out the header on the story – the moderator hasn’t changed.
If the gender polarity of the bitch had been reversed, the header would have read “Male Tears”
Right mod?
Mad “Med” sounds like a way better show.
There was this one time when a woman got offended by something a man said…and no one cared.
I bet the OB is a big fan of any show making fools of men and fathers.
I worked in offices during the period of ‘Mad Men’. It was a wretched environment with a handful of men lording it over an entire floor of submissive females. To every man I worked for before 1975, I would gladly smack in the nutsack with a tire iron. Fortunately, most of those old sexist dinos are now worm food.
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From one woman to another-there will always be men like this out there. It doesn’t make it ok, but it is reality. They can make whatever excuses they want for their beliefs and behavior but it is YOU that has the choice to be around men like this. Walk away and find some men that are more mature about their perspectives on women to watch tv with.
McGargoyle speaks the truth. Some of those dinos were a little rapey too.
Ob, I don’t know what sort of environment you work in. But I can speak about the environment I work in. In my environment. Any male supervisors function in a state of abject terror. Why? why because if you assess a female worker as underperforming(with evidence), or for disciplinary issues(with evidence), or anything else that doesn’t state that she is the greatest employee ever…well out comes the sexist allegations. A female worker that is found to be guilty of any sort of conduct breaches faces absolutely NO repercussions. If a male counterpart is found to be guilty, there is no hesitation to make an example of him. Lets talk sexual misconduct. A female is reported to have been guilty of sexual misconduct…NO repercussions. a male…holy FUCK…even if it is found to be an unfounded complaint, the guy is done. DONE. if a female co-worker makes a false allegation…nothing done. I speak of experience with workplace sexual assault. a drunk female co-worker sexually assaulted me. I informed her female supervisor, she laughed and said “why did you stop her, shes pretty” THIS IS the world we NOW live in. I am honestly glad that there is action to stop misogyny. I welcome it. in fact I have always promoted equality in the workplace. but the tide has shifted. it is no longer equal. not in any way. and it is the other way now.