The CEO of the company made the word up because he thought it’d be funny to hear Asians try to say it. “Rue-rue-remon”

couldn’t have blessed poor ol’ Pop with an extra stitch here?

Um, I’m not a lady, I’m a person who believes that mutual respect is the cornerstone of any good relationship.

How has the “women = secretary” mentality not changed since the 60s?

You were honest and open to him about your feelings, and he was honest and open to you about his identity as an asshole. Sounds like a success to me!

Oh, haven’t you heard? All male attention is positive and desired by all women, ever, in perpetuity. I thought everyone had heard.

“I know you died for our sins, but shut the fuck up and go away Jesus.”

In a Lifetime/Hallmark movie, he would secretly be an angel who gave advice to the lonelyheart office workers and eventually played matchmaker to a just-jilted female lawyer and dashing male partner.

I worked as an exec assistant long ago, and hired a male admin for the formerly all-female admin pool. The response was SO depressing. Men wouldn’t go to him for support; women were constantly baking him cookies and fawning all over him (he was cute) and asking him about his band, while giving the real work to the…

I tried that once. “Hey it really hurts that you randomly mention how amazing/sexy/thoughtful/intelligent/perfect your ex-girlfriend was.” “Well, you need to stop being so insecure. I can’t help that my ex was perfect and that we had a mature enough breakup that I don’t hate her! You’re being really selfish, trying to…

Trust me, our Ontario Human Rights Commission is all over this.

I worked as a temp for an insurance company. Occasionally, one of the receptionists could not come in, and my department would be asked to cover the 6th floor desk. It was a joke - covering that desk involved no work other than breathing and smiling.

The law office next door has a male receptionist, looks like a little nice grandpa, he’s always polite, has a fluffy white mustache and wears a bowtie.

Multiculturalism! Woo. As a Canadian, I... have mixed feelings about it. I like the concept up to a point, but I think there are some basics we should kind of all agree on, first. Like, if your culture thinks that women should be receptionists and men should not, maybe your culture is just... wrong? On that point?…

For real, how hard is it to put your caveman instincts in the backseat? If I’m out with a friend, my fiance, an employer, whatever... The hottest fucking guy could walk through the door, I wouldn’t notice him. Because I am busy with people who are 100 times more interesting than a random hot guy (but dude could u pls…

I put ‘puts up with it’ in quotes because it really means “She doesn’t like it but doesn’t want to get in a screaming match about it so she doesn’t confront him about it.” That’s not a thing you want to be happening in a relationship.

Same! I’ll be like, “DAMN, that woman has GOT to be a model!” and he’s busy looking at a tree like, “think I could climb that?!” I find it oddly comforting too.

I expected more from you, Canada.

Alternatively: If he’s continually doing something that he knows you don’t like and doesn’t really seem to care that you don’t like it, then you should probably dump him because that will carry through to the rest of your relationship. It denotes a lack of respect and a relationship doesn’t function well when one…

But if you do it in a really obvious way, most of the time the guys will come hit on you