Comments on: On Being a Feminist Around Business People http://www.kimwerker.com/2009/11/23/on-being-a-feminist-around-business-people/ Nothing is too precious to try at least once. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:40:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Mists of Linkspam | Geek Feminism Blog http://www.kimwerker.com/2009/11/23/on-being-a-feminist-around-business-people/comment-page-1/#comment-5527 The Mists of Linkspam | Geek Feminism Blog Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:32:23 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=986#comment-5527 [...] Werker recounts one more sexist joke in a tech-conference speech, and how it has changed her approach to [...] [...] Werker recounts one more sexist joke in a tech-conference speech, and how it has changed her approach to [...]

]]> By: Kimsmom http://www.kimwerker.com/2009/11/23/on-being-a-feminist-around-business-people/comment-page-1/#comment-5605 Kimsmom Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:35:17 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=986#comment-5605 I would politely wonder aloud about his relationship with a significant woman - or with women investors. Years ago, in the early days of computers in the workplace, your father was conducting a training session. A middle-aged female student asked him if his wife was a strong woman. Taken aback, he asked why. She replied that he must be married to a strong woman because he was not treating his female students as being incapable of understanding this "scary, difficult" new technology. He responded by saying that if he treated women as inferior in any way he would no longer be married! I would politely wonder aloud about his relationship with a significant woman – or with women investors. Years ago, in the early days of computers in the workplace, your father was conducting a training session. A middle-aged female student asked him if his wife was a strong woman. Taken aback, he asked why. She replied that he must be married to a strong woman because he was not treating his female students as being incapable of understanding this “scary, difficult” new technology. He responded by saying that if he treated women as inferior in any way he would no longer be married!

]]> By: Kimsmom http://www.kimwerker.com/2009/11/23/on-being-a-feminist-around-business-people/comment-page-1/#comment-5519 Kimsmom Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:35:17 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=986#comment-5519 I would politely wonder aloud about his relationship with a significant woman - or with women investors. Years ago, in the early days of computers in the workplace, your father was conducting a training session. A middle-aged female student asked him if his wife was a strong woman. Taken aback, he asked why. She replied that he must be married to a strong woman because he was not treating his female students as being incapable of understanding this "scary, difficult" new technology. He responded by saying that if he treated women as inferior in any way he would no longer be married! I would politely wonder aloud about his relationship with a significant woman – or with women investors. Years ago, in the early days of computers in the workplace, your father was conducting a training session. A middle-aged female student asked him if his wife was a strong woman. Taken aback, he asked why. She replied that he must be married to a strong woman because he was not treating his female students as being incapable of understanding this “scary, difficult” new technology. He responded by saying that if he treated women as inferior in any way he would no longer be married!

]]> By: Kim Werker http://www.kimwerker.com/2009/11/23/on-being-a-feminist-around-business-people/comment-page-1/#comment-5516 Kim Werker Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:43:59 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=986#comment-5516 Ha!<br><br>But in all seriousness (though I'm still chuckling), it's a really hard<br>thing to figure out: how to productively address this sort of thing. If<br>throwing fruit gets us bounced but just bringing it up gets us painted as<br>hypersensitive or incapable of taking a joke, what are we to do? Ha!

But in all seriousness (though I'm still chuckling), it's a really hard
thing to figure out: how to productively address this sort of thing. If
throwing fruit gets us bounced but just bringing it up gets us painted as
hypersensitive or incapable of taking a joke, what are we to do?

]]> By: Leslie http://www.kimwerker.com/2009/11/23/on-being-a-feminist-around-business-people/comment-page-1/#comment-5515 Leslie Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:17:56 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=986#comment-5515 Years ago was at a club where the talent started making fat chick jokes. We good-naturedly tried to get him off topic by pelting him with limes in a surely-you-can-do-better-than-this kind of way.<br><br>We got bounced! Years ago was at a club where the talent started making fat chick jokes. We good-naturedly tried to get him off topic by pelting him with limes in a surely-you-can-do-better-than-this kind of way.

We got bounced!

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