It was such a good myth, too. If you were an underachieving woman with a woman boss, you could claim she was jealous of you and keeping you down. And if you were a guy, you could blame women for keeping each other down and justify all over again male privilege as something men have earned through teamwork and getting the job done. Jenn Hoffman, [...]
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I happened up on this news blurb: A saleswoman who was spanked in front of her co-workers as part of what her employer said was a camaraderie-building exercise sat quietly in a courtroom Wednesday as lawyers gave closing arguments at her civil trial. So…. if I understand the situation even a little bit, the plaintiff in the case was paddled on the bottom during a [...]
I’ve been reading Maureen Dowd’s new book Are Men Necessary? at Redbyrd’s suggestion, and she points out that tearful, emotional pleas and hell-hath-no-fury catfighting sure aren’t reserved for women anymore: from athletes to politicians to evangelists, men are sobbing and bitching their way through their careers nowadays, especially when they’re in the spotlight. Guess it’s just their time of the month. Or maybe they just [...]
