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Originally posted by mmm3587
Fuck you. My employer does a lot of mentoring and similar shit for women. It doesn't do anything for others. That sucks. And then I hear women, who make more money and have better career options than me, bitch about how bad things are for them. And I'm all "what the fuck? You make a quarter million dollars a year and vacation all over the world and you're pissed because our employer isn't doing more for you?" On the inside. On the outside, I just nod, because nobody wants to be the chauvenistic asshole.
I'm convinced that people will always complain about their situation and assume that others have it easier. Hell, look at me. But, at some point, you've got to admit that most of the workplace discrimination against professional women is gone, daddy, gone. Not all of it, sure. And I can't see a lot of it, because I am a guy. But it's not 1960 anymore. I'm amazed about a law firm actually paying a man more because of family status. It's sad that that still happens. But don't try to be all Rosa Parks about your experience in the workplace, unless you can honestly look yourself in the mirror and say that you're getting screwed.
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As fringey volunteered before me, if you want to go to the fucking quarterly luncheon and have some conference room chicken while women discuss How To Make It In A Man's World, you may have my spot. Maybe your firm plants fresh grass under all the women's feet periodically so that they don't get corns on their precious toes and gives out back massages only to women, but that really ain't the way of the world. At least not where I live.
And I will counter you with the exact thing that I don't whine about but do notice - most "business development" at my firm is male-oriented activities and some of it is so much so that I would never be invited to it. Despite the fact that I play golf and enjoy sports tix as much as the guy down the hall. So I sob for you missing out on some "mentoring" program.
