― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)
Slapper.
― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Simon (flameproof) (Flameproof), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)
which i thought was a little crap, obviously.
― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)
And competition among men isn't?
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadrockismus (Dada), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadrockismus (Dada), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)
The well-worn cliche appears truthfulif you're an observing female. Men seem prepared to work in teams and cede shit to other men depending on the skills of the individual as a result of being indoctrinated through sports designed to sublimate their need to compete to some Other that isn't someone on their team.
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)
Ew no, mental image of senior male university figures engaging in above. I take it back.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)
I don't think women are catty, per se, but I have noticed that having a female for a boss that I have to work a lot harder than when I've had a male boss in the past.
Also, I guess I don't get the women hating women thing because I for the main part only have female friends, and I really only feel comfortable being myself with other women... initially (it takes a bit more time for me to let loose around men). Maybe this has to do with having two sisters, though.
― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)
I have heard women who claim to be feminist say that in business they were only going to deal with senior men because middle-management women either cannot or, more usually, will not give them anything they want, so what's the point of bothering with them?
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)
haha xpost w/Matt
― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadrockismus (Dada), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)
any kind of workplace power struggle is pretty ugly (ooh oxymoron!).. men and women competitions are often even worse.
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)
I wonder if this is a race vs gender issue.
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― bovary, Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)
well, jeez, mandee, it's simple! first, you have to hit the girlfriend over the head with a comedy club or some other blunt object. then you have to drug the boy, put him in a burlap sack, and carry him out over your shoulder. you must be wearing a black and white stripey shirt and a mask of some kind. and always tiptoe.
when he comes to, he's yours, fair and square!
― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)
http://elsinoremagazine.com/burglar.jpg
― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)
Really, boyfriend and/or girlfriend stealing is *all* about the hot sex.
― Tonight at ten (kenan), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)
Or, at least, that is what it was about when I did it.
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ain't That Peculiar (kenan), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)
bloq le coq.
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.frif.com/new2002/gifs/spect2.jpg
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)
Also, danger! That supposed financier may be Harley Quinn!
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)
I don't have any preference of male / female for my friends, they tend to stick in my life due to common interests and all that jazz, not because I can relate to one or the other sex more easily.
― donna (donna), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― minerva, Friday, 24 September 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Laura E (laurae55), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)
Sorry, I get on better with men than women and I cant apologise for it. I dont actively choose this - many women just seem alien to me. I'm not a girly girl. I dunno. I'm just weird maybe.
And then when women say they hate women who say this, it just makes me feel even more disliked. Its high school all over again. No guys I ever knew did the shit to me that girls did..
Anyway.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)
I am yet to meet a woman who has put me immediately on defense or offense mode, simply by her 'look'.
― donna (donna), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)
And lauren, I totally agree. For me it isnt a competition thing. I'd quite like to have more female friends than I do, but I just dont. I cant feel as "me" around women as around guys. I'm kinda... blokey, I suppose. Maybe someone like Jim can agree or disagree with that? heh ;P
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)
Did it ever occur to you that, most of the time, whatever it is that all the fuss is about in "a professional situation" isn't worth a rat's ass and consequently isn't much worth squabbling about?
― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)
Ack, like talk in baby voices and stuff? That shit works on me every time.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)
And I have to say I have sadly seen the latter - only the once, but it was a woman I worked with, who was hard as nails with the female staff and a flirty, cutsey mess with the men (esp her bosses). Oh and she was shagging one of 'em.
I have to say tho, I rarely see anyone use gender in the workplace as a political tool. Being smarmy deceptive bastards, sure, but it never seems to be a gender specific thing.
In personal life on the other hand... whole different kettle of metaphors.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, I used to think that.
Then everyone on my team got bigger raises then me because of things I didn't think were worth squabbling about (ie, I didn't talk just to be heard or volunteer for stupid things just to volunteer).
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)
But the only behaviour that really *does* actually make me borderline homicidal is perfectly capable young women who deliberately do the weak, stupid and vulnerable "tee hee, oh look at me, I'm so helpless" act around men. But the only thing that makes me *more* homicidal is the pathetic and stupid men who actually *respond* to that sort of behaviour.
― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)
i'm not gonna shave my head or wear a sackcloth in my quest or anything! but i do feel sad about this, and it has come up - very specifically - enough times in my life to make me eternally wary now.
and liz, i know what all this may sound like, but until you walk a mile in my shoes, etc....shut the fuck up.
― minerva, Friday, 24 September 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadrockismus (Dada), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)
Mandee, I can sorta relate to your experiences, though I have zero siblings at all, and most of my experiences with female supervisors have been rather positive. Whether it's because I work with very matronly individuals or because I'm so used to my mother being very hard-nosed and demanding that the fact that the female supervisors are similar to that doesn't bother me is, well, a mystery. Though you are correct in your observation that male supervisors seem to be not quite as strict as the female ones.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)