Not surprised at all. I once had a cab driver speak negatively about gay men, apropos of nothing, for almost my entire (UES to West Village) cab ride. #discrimination
I don't know what cab drivers are like in New York, but if they are anything like the ones we've got here, I'm not surprised this happened.
My theory is that driving around in traffic in a big city makes them full of hatred and completely unreasonable. There are cool cabbies, but those are in the minority, most seem bigoted and hateful. #discrimination
@Ailatan: Based on 7 years in NY and all of 2 weeks in Buenos Aires (so obviously take my opinion with a big grain of salt), NYC cabbies are worse. They also routinely refuse to take you places they don't feel like going to (for me, Brooklyn). #discrimination
I was once kicked out of a cab in Athens, Greece (in 2004) for politely disagreeing with the cab driver when he loudly insisted that George W Bush should be put to death.
"I don't like him at all, but that's unnecessary, dude," I said.
@morninggloria: Or ask him to maybe stop playing with his worry beads in one hand while holding his cell in the other. Who needs hand to drive? #discrimination
@Maritsa: My favorite is how you flag down a cab and you have to tell them where you're going first before they let you in. And how usually, after you tell them where you're going, they make a rude gesture and drive away, insulted that you DARE imply that they take you to THAT PLACE. #discrimination
@morninggloria: And the ones who try to get you to go to their friend's restaurant/souvenir shop/whatever. Despite the fact that I spoke Greek to him and told him I was visiting family (i.e. I am not a typical tourist). #discrimination
@morninggloria: no way man, you don't have to tell them shit. get in the cab first! if they insist on throwing you out, or are intentionally overcharging, get all their info and report their ass. totally illegal not to drive you anywhere in the 5 boroughs. #discrimination
You mean a NY cabbie was distracted enough from his phone conversation to notice what was happening in the back seat? There's such a thing? #discrimination
@Eleanor Ramilly: Cab drivers are generally not employees. The are independent employees who pay the cab company for use of the cab and other services. The complaint was filed by calling the city, so it is probably a complaint with the taxi-cab commission.
@Lymed: They report to the NYC Taxi Commission, they are in charge of their licenses. You can take a driver to court for misconduct, which can make them lose their license or at least have it suspended.
It is illegal to refuse anyone a ride in a NYC taxi (if you're already inside) so this was discrimination + breaking a law specific for taxi drivers- ground for license revoking, IMO. #discrimination
@Lymed: I just wish there was a more efficient way to control taxi-drivers' behavior, you know? I feel like they get away with murder under the current system... and there really isn't a lot you can do. #discrimination
Strangely enough, sexism has always been theoretical for me. I was talking to my mother and aunts a few months ago during my high school graduation and I found out that all of them had to fight to be able to more than just housewives. Meanwhile, my friends and I have just taken it for granted that we can have any future that we want. (I grew up in a middle-class suburb and I've been pretty sheltered, so I'm not implying that there isn't still sexism in the U.S., just that I haven't encountered it yet.) #women
@gwenhwyfar: I graduated high school in 1995, and I also didn't encounter any sexism until entering college and the workplace. I think it has something to do with being exposed to more generations and people from different parts of the country. If a company is being run by someone who graduated in 1965, it can take a long time for some attitudes to be eradicated. Plus, for some reason, while young woman are mostly taken seriously as students nowadays, they are not always taken seriously as workers, or especially working mothers. #women
If we only look back on what we've already accomplished, what's the incentive for more progress? By focusing on what still needs to be done, we can aspire to greater things.
Or maybe we should be patting ourselves on the back for inventing the telegraph rather than twittering about Google Wave on our iPhones. #women
Did anyone else get a hearty laugh out of the football metaphor? "That's right, dude! That's how you explain to the boys what being a mother is like! It's like bein' the QB!" Gender-based misunderstanding: averted! #women
as a professional woman (with the debt to prove it) about to go on maternity leave - i throw the rest of the world out as an example to how screwed up the US is...
@Melpomene: Yes. Many companies do, but it is not required, so many companies do not as well, and if you are a small company, you don't even have to offer unpaid maternity leave. #women
"The phrase (which adapts a bit depending on the speaker) is that whites like to measure progress by how far we've come; minorities like to measure progress based on how far we have left to go."
This is an important point, and an interesting one that sheds light on the discussion, but could you maybe explain why you wrote "whites" and then "minorities"? Shouldn't "whites" be "majority"? Especially since this is a discussion focused on gender/sex issues - so including using "whites" in this context, instead of "minorities" makes it stand out even more as odd? #women
@olivia2.0: I don't think I've ever heard "the majority" commonly used as a synonym for "white" in this country, while "minorities" is a fairly common catchall phrase for non-white races in the country. #women
Oh crap, Time. The Glenn Beck lovefest was bad enough (darn those liberal fire departments for saying there weren't a million teabaggers!). But now this? I just don't know. I would have liked to see both a "we still have a long way" and "we've come so far" package. It seems to be tilted toward the latter.
I've been waffling on which newsweekly to keep: Time or Newsweek. This may be a point for Newsweek.
I appreciate Shriver for bringing it up, but they could have done a whole issue on sexual violence and rape culture. That's a huge indication that no, we have not come that far. #women
"Men are much more likely to say there are no longer any barriers to female advancement, while a majority of women say men still have it better in life."
Errr... did they just stick this sentence into that paragraph at random? Because a statement like that is pretty powerful evidence that there's a long-ass way to go, and they're listing it in the section that seems to imply we're catty self-sabotaging whiners. What? #women
@HeatherNumber1: We'd both be millionaires. An ex-boyfriend once told me he didn't understand why feminist theory existed. He was a philosophy major. Articles like this one reinforce the perception. Thanks, Time. I wonder how many women are higher ups there. Oh, a male Time editor was on Morning Joe today and I had to turn it off because he kept saying how great everything was for women now. #women
@otherginger: $0.65, not $0.065. I hope. Because 65 cents to the dollar is bad enough, it would be absolutely ridiculous if it was 6 and a half cents to the dollar. :) #women
Prince Waleed, for all that he publicly does to hire women and to promote equality in the workplace, is mostly concerned with having attractive women prominently working for him. There are plenty of progressive women in Saudi Arabia who resent his attitude towards women - they're accouterments, not respected employees.
Saudi women face some incredible structural and cultural challenges in their efforts to enter the workforce. However, in the time I spent living there and meeting Saudi students every day, I was very impressed with how these women were determined to forge a place for themselves in the workforce without turning their society on its ears.
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I usually tip very well. Not that time. #discrimination
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"I don't like him at all, but that's unnecessary, dude," I said.
Do not call Athenian cabbies "dude." #discrimination
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It is illegal to refuse anyone a ride in a NYC taxi (if you're already inside) so this was discrimination + breaking a law specific for taxi drivers- ground for license revoking, IMO. #discrimination
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Or maybe we should be patting ourselves on the back for inventing the telegraph rather than twittering about Google Wave on our iPhones. #women
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That's utterly appalling. I never realized the situation was quite that bad for American women. #women
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This is an important point, and an interesting one that sheds light on the discussion, but could you maybe explain why you wrote "whites" and then "minorities"? Shouldn't "whites" be "majority"? Especially since this is a discussion focused on gender/sex issues - so including using "whites" in this context, instead of "minorities" makes it stand out even more as odd? #women
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I've been waffling on which newsweekly to keep: Time or Newsweek. This may be a point for Newsweek.
I appreciate Shriver for bringing it up, but they could have done a whole issue on sexual violence and rape culture. That's a huge indication that no, we have not come that far. #women
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Errr... did they just stick this sentence into that paragraph at random? Because a statement like that is pretty powerful evidence that there's a long-ass way to go, and they're listing it in the section that seems to imply we're catty self-sabotaging whiners. What? #women
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Saudi women face some incredible structural and cultural challenges in their efforts to enter the workforce. However, in the time I spent living there and meeting Saudi students every day, I was very impressed with how these women were determined to forge a place for themselves in the workforce without turning their society on its ears.