Monday, July 19, 2004
This weekend, I attempted to go on a beach retreat with my family. Forty minutes after arriving at the run-down resort, I decided what I really needed was a retreat from my family. (Preferably on a deserted island with cable tv, and free massages, and dozens of beautiful men to shower me with presents and kisses and to wait on me hand and foot.) I love my family, I really, honestly do (most of the time), but 2 days in 2 rooms proved to be a tad more trying than I originally expected. Add to that ten members of my extended family offering their well-meaning "advice" as to what I should and should not be doing with my life and I completely lost it. For once I was pleased that work was calling.
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Monday, July 12, 2004
Allison Schieffelin is my hero
Today she and the EEOC leveled a $54 million bitchslap against her former employers for being insensitive, sexist pigs.
Today at lunch, the men in my office walked down the stairs and out the door, heading downtown for a "business lunch" so they could make company changing decisions in the privacy of their boy's only club. One of them actually said "No estrogen allowed," as he was shutting the door. I would take it as the joke they intended if these men didn't have meetings like this almost every day, locked away in a room upstairs, rarely including a single woman. I would chuckle along with everyone else if I didn't see that every high-paying, executive position was held by a man.
Today, Allison Schieffelin in my hero.
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Today at lunch, the men in my office walked down the stairs and out the door, heading downtown for a "business lunch" so they could make company changing decisions in the privacy of their boy's only club. One of them actually said "No estrogen allowed," as he was shutting the door. I would take it as the joke they intended if these men didn't have meetings like this almost every day, locked away in a room upstairs, rarely including a single woman. I would chuckle along with everyone else if I didn't see that every high-paying, executive position was held by a man.
Today, Allison Schieffelin in my hero.
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