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Shamrockette
05/31/09

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Oh, I also want a job market that won't make a big deal out of my gender. I have a vagina, but that doesn't mean I can't do the job as good or better than a man.

Look at my qualifications instead of my genitals.
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Shamrockette
05/31/09

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"I mean, what else do you want to do, for God's sake?"

Hmmm, maybe do our job and get equal pay for it? And maybe we want to have a family and care for them, and not live in fear of losing our jobs or benefits when we give birth or a family member is really sick?

Nah, that doesn't count.
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Maritsa
05/31/09

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Oh, how timely. Just this week one of my male colleagues said he put no credence in the opinion that Judge Sotomayor might be being judged more harshly for her supposed acerbicness because she's a woman. He insisted that men "of our generation" (mind you, he's 20 years older than me) have no such prejudices. This is the same man who told me a few weeks ago that young women who dress "slutty" have some responsibility if they "get date-raped." Also the same person who resents the fact that we have a female attorneys group at our firm.

He claimed that there were "plenty" of female engineers at his old job - this is demonstrably NOT TRUE - and that there are "so many" female law partners. To which, thankfully, a male partner said "You're wrong. 51% of women graduating from law school are women (nb: this has been true for years), but only 14% of law partners are women."

Also, this week I was mommy-tracked. I wasn't put on a trial out of town explicitly because I have a kid. Meanwhile, I am always in earlier and usually stay later than the childless colleague who got the assignment instead, and I have never ever turned down work for any reason.

In short, suck it sideways, assface.
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battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch
05/31/09

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The fact you feel the urge to refer to your fellow human beings as 'you' encapsulates why 'we' still moan.
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goodgirlrevolution
05/31/09

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Mr. Rose, is it? When we no longer remember definitions for words like rape, honour killings, wage gap or glass celing, etc ad infinitum - then we can have some tea and have a laugh about how fabulous equality is. Ok? Ok.
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misspell
05/31/09

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Additionally, who is he addressing, exactly? When he says "you" - is he speaking to all women? Or is he speaking to Amelia Hill, the woman who wrote the article? Both are equally heinous, and either way he's an enormous ass, I just want to know the setting.
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andBegorrah
05/31/09

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I haven't got a culture in which there is no need or inclination to put "woman" as an adjectival qualifier in front of my professional title. THAT, for one, is what I haven't got.
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misspell
05/31/09

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It drives me crazy, too, that he refers to M&S workers with two or three kids as "girls", as in "there are many girls in here [Marks & Spencer] who have got two kids who come to work." He strikes me as the type of guy who buys lingerie for his secretary.
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MarissaExplainsItAll
05/31/09

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Well, at least I have my Mexicanity to fall back on, unless Sir Rose wants to take that away from me.

Seriously dude, you might be a Sir but you are definitely not a gentleman.
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morninggloria
05/31/09

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Oh, those Brits with their droll humor!
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Kali Mama
05/31/09

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[..] won by women who don't understand what they've lost. The hard-won freedom of choice has imprisoned women.

"I just see an exhausted generation trying to do it all."

Oh noes, the choices, they confound me! My dainty little brain is much better served by being cooped up with hysterical toddlers and a quart of scotch to sublimate that innate desire to educate myself in worldly matters.
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Kali Mama
05/31/09

@Kali Mama: Also, no generation of women before this one had to combine work and childcare, ever. We're trailblazers here.
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PrarieMuffin
05/31/09

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Wow, you're right, Stuart: we can be underrepresented and underpaid in any field we want!
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Nighthawk (the former Okori Wadsworth) is headed back to DGUSA in November!
05/31/09

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Ok...... Mr. Rose? you are so wrong. i mean honestly......are you trying to look stupid?
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SarahHeartburn
05/31/09

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Oh, he said even better stuff.

...he seems to rejoice in his political incorrectness. In the week that we meet, M&S has bowed to consumer pressure and dropped a £2 surcharge on larger bras.

"We thought we'd set up an alternative website called Titter," Rose says, "which I thought was actually quite amusing."
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Ailanthus-altissima
05/31/09

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Well, he's right. After Clinton put all those cracks in it, they had to renovate, and the glass ceiling is now made out of 18 inch thick PVC.
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MarissaExplainsItAll
05/31/09

@Ailanthus-altissima: AA, that made me laugh and cry at the same time...good job!
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