I did that too. It was a satisfying, if not fleeting, moment.

I just remembered a great one! Last month, my friend - who is the chillest, least confrontational, most mild-mannered person in the whole world - was visiting Israel and he ran into some German lady who was like, “Why can’t there just be peace?” My friend was all, “Yeah, totally” (my friend and I are both Jewish but…

Waiting at the airport for a flight. There’s a line of about 10 people at the counter that were delayed from an earlier flight. Some dude pushes past the line and screams at the desk agent that, “(He) has to be on this flight! And it has to be first class!” Agent tells him that she can help him but he need to wait in…

I’m actually going to give you guys a nice story, but before I do, let me preface it by assuring you that as a closet case who was in the gifted program and suffered from a chronic illness that caused excessive sweating in a conservative, rural town, school was basically a horror show for me. So this was an anomaly.

We shall enshroud you with a Wiccan circle of safety and healing.

When I was a F/A I heard some stories of Hasidic men asking the flight attendants if they were “dirty” meaning on their periods on flights to Tel Aviv. Apparently the men cannot accept service items from “dirty” women. Most F/A’s would answer that they were absolutely on their period.

Thank you for the woMANsplaining. It’s a woman-centric site, it was beyond any doubt (to most) an issue for women to express what had happened to them - it was NOT in any way stated that it was for men too - it was after all, inspired by a scene from a show involving WOMEN being mistreated.

This is true, but at the Sephora I worked at, we were constantly sold out of the auburn shades. I ended up finding a matte shadow that was a good match, so I stocked up on that instead.

When I was in my 20s, I had a case where my opposing counsel was also a woman in her 20s. One morning we were in court to argue a discovery motion, and when we stepped up, the (old, white, male) judge said, “well, here’s a real battle of the Titans.” I was so furious on behalf of both of us that I couldn’t concentrate…

It’s hard-earned. In my first year of law school, I had a major depressive episode - which went untreated, because it was my first one and I had no idea what was going on. My life that year was a motherfucking hellscape nightmare. As I began to claw my way back out in the subsequent years, I had to jettison any…

I expect that many people (not just men) would react to this by saying, “men are asked to do similar menial tasks that are “traditionally masculine” so this is fair and you’re reading too much into it. It’s not really sexism.” To them:

After planning a wedding, I did not want to plan an elaborate vacation. We booked a Caribbean cruise, where I could just roll on the boat and have a drink with an umbrella immediately placed in my hand.

I am board president for a local nonprofit that is in the process of rebuilding after some pretty destructive EDs and boards have whittled it away to nothing. My Vice Chair of Board Development, a dude, does nothing NOTHING that he is supposed to do. And yet, he loves to walk around talking about he’s a vice chair and…

A friend of mine was working his first day at a steakhouse when they had him shuck like, a 5 gallon pot of oysters. He was told to put it in the walk-in, without a lid on it, because that was going to be all the oysters for the week. He then called his old boss (the owner of the bar I now work at), who used to be the…

OMG! My stepsister worked at a seafood restaurant on the Outer Banks (NC) in the '70s, and they had to stay after close and pick crabs until oh-fuck-thirty!

Holy shit, that is NOT side-work that is kitchen prep!

At my old serving job we would have crawfish races. The winner got a days reprieve in the fish tank.

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In the book The Kennedy Women, the author goes in to Kathleen Kennedy's (JFK's sister) time in London during the war. She worked at a Red Cross officer's club and had access to clothes and make up that other girls, some of them her friends, didn't. Those girls who worked in factories or as nurses used shoe polish for…

In Britain cosmetics were virtually impossible to get as the ingredients were being used to make other products for the war effort. Interestingly the Government was very keen to try to get at least some cosmetics out to women as they saw it as very important for morale. Also as Hitler despised cosmetic use in females…