@LaFemme: Yes! That comment is pretty much the story of my life. My last name is extremely Jewish as well, but people tend to judge a book by its cover. The ruder ones ask me if my hair color is natural (which it is, as are my fair skin and blue eyes).

@JarethCutestory: Kudos!

Rachel may or may not (cough cough) be my first name. And if it were...it would have been chosen because it was traditional in both my mother's WASP family and my father's Ashkenazi one.

@LaFemme: We should meet sometime :)

"It runs contrary to our values"

@cloverest: MORE COWBELL!

@colormeroutine: Really? I've never aspired to be—among other things—an astrophysicist, an Olympic athlete or a Playboy centerfold, and if someone told me I couldn't, I'd just say "Yeah, you're right."

@TurtleSpeak: I think you're right—that was probably the intent. But the way it was phrased makes it sound like most women would understand being upset at being told that they're not Playboy material.

the comment affected her in a way that many women can understand

@Alys Brangwin has a huge talent: I'm just jealous because all the other women at work get sexually harassed, but not me!

@mbprice: Nah—the 1st Amendment also allows everyone to tell Pat Robertson frequently and loudly what a useless piece of shit he is.

@SarahMC: And that it's somehow sexy.

@Highsmith: Yeah, that's some bullshit right there.

Sorry, Anna, but male-on-female sexual harassment is also usually about power, not sex.

@clockwise - counter: My late dog had brown eyebrows on a black face, like a Doberman. They were SO cute.

OMG, the eyebrows!!!!

@Cerridwen: I never said the photoshoot was exploitative, I said that bestiality is explotative.

They make it sound as though employees never had babies before.

@InCahoots: However, while I'd be having a sexual experience, the dog wouldn't really think anything of it, would he/she? He's just do his/her thing and then scamper off and not really know what happened?

I'm sorry you got fucked over in TN, Harold. But this registered Democrat will not give you the time of day in the NY primary.