Either kinja is glitching on me or someone dismissed my comment, but either way here it is again:

lol. I looked this chick up. According to Wikipedia, she’s not even a real Pussycat Doll!

Even if you’re not connected to your parent’s tribe, the one thing you know is its name.

She claimed her father lived on a reservation near Dallas, but there isn’t one. She keeps insisting she has proof of her claims regarding her father but has yet to present any.

Folks are upset because the song is offensive and exploitative. You don’t mine folks culture for material, especially when those folks are marginalized and underrepresented within the US and the entertainment industry. She’s distorting biracial folks story for profit. I mean look what she’s wearing while she’s…

Really? You’re comparing genocides? Make no mistake what the US did to the Native Americans was every bit as genocidal as what the Turks did to the Armenians.

I’m not going to even try to unpick the Cher stuff because that’s just a clusterfuck of already hot topics, though I will say that it shouldn’t be so hard to understand that while something was acceptable at the time it doesn’t mean it’s acceptable now and that idea doesn’t detract from any earlier significance it may…

That song is weird and appropriative, and so is Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves. Do they really need to be defended? I think a, “Yeah, I’ve learned a few things in the last 45 years. I wanted to sing about otherness, but picked someone else’s experience instead of my own, and realize that wasn’t a good choice now,” or…

Thank you for your support. The male trucker population is very aware of the issues perhaps more so than seasoned women truckers who did not experience the “training carrier” phenomenon of today and may tend to victim blame rather than show compassion. The silence of many empowers predators. We create their playground…

Thank you for touching on that point. These women who enter trucking are primarily indigent and have no family support of any kind. They do not know what a human resource department is because many of them have not worked anywhere that had one. They do not know how to seek justice, and they have no money to take on…

This makes me irrationally angry. My husband has been a professional driver since 97 and takes great pride in it. He thinks there need to be more women in the industry because they are more detail oriented and safety conscious. Shit like this makes the industry look worse than many think it is (oh god the classist…

My husband is a truck driver, and the stories are appalling. One that still disturbs me to this very day was when he got a new truck, and the other driver hadn’t completely cleaned it out for him. All over the bunk walls were naked women from adult magazines- and their eyes had been cut out. Hundreds of them.

He used…

I was so shocked by the turnover rates I kept checking them over and over and over. It’s nuts.

Not to excuse or downplay sexism in Tech or Finance, but these are the kinds of stories I really, REALLY would like to see more of in women’s spaces and for feminists to grapple with. I get that its hard being a woman making $100k a year in a job where a man makes $129k, and that it really sucks when some bros want to…

Having worked for male dominated companies for most of my career, this sort of thing happens way too often. It’s amazing how the men who do these things deny them and are convinced that the woman was asking that sort of treatment. The levels of delusion and assumption are staggering.

Great article — depressing, of course, but thorough.

I’m a rape crisis counselor in the west and I have had more than my fair share of trucking cases. Women raped by the men who are supposed to be training them, women drugged and raped by fellow truckers at truck stops, women raped while sleeping in the cabs... It happens all the time. I’m so glad to see someone is…

There’s a fairly simple solution to this type of problem. Hire a few fake trainees to ride with trainers. Let trainers know that this could be happening and fire trainers who don’t know how to act like something other than pigs.

"Obviously fake. Native Americans are proud of the name." - the Redskin Action Committee of Instilling Social Truth