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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject: Have Attitudes Really Changed That Much? | |
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| I'd be willing to bet that if these "guidelines" were implemented and followed in this day and age there would be a class action lawsuit filed quicker than you could say "sexual harassment". | |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: | |
Yeah, you're probably right. Back in those days, corporate big shots could get away with about anything. 
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| I do have to admit though, a few of these are quite amusing... | |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject: | |
I especially like #4.
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Really folks, I'm not kidding. I have actually heard some of the more reactionary posters on a couple of these forums make statements that, though dressed up to be a tad more PC, pretty much say the same things.
There's an investment broker who's one side of a point/counterpoint in our local paper that loads their forum up with stuff like this a lot. Those attitudes haven't completely gone away yet. Last edited by Nofsdad on Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:45 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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I know you're not.
It's true Nofs, that this kind of attitude or should I call it as it really is... sexism is still rampant. Until the day I walked out of Sears, the GM referred to me as "The Skirt". Note: I was the only female ASM. If I seemed particularly pissed off in a meeting, he would suggest that I was "having one of THOSE days"... and the guys should back off - that it was a passing thing. I choked it down, though it infuriated me. So, yes... this kind of stuff is still 'out there'. We've come a long way baby... but we still have a long way to go. I'm thinking it may wash away with the twenty-somthings generation. |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:44 pm Post subject: | |
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Well, old Rush certainly does his best to keep it going.
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