Well, I am very,very black and I can name them. I can also name all of the Primarchs, Legion Number,and Worlds of Rediscovery from Warhammer 40K. A nerd is a nerd.

“To a certain extent you missed the point by asking that question, however, I understand that within that question is your desire to be black.”

I worked at a day care once. One day two girls in my class that were besties were (almost literally) at each other’s throats, so I made them sit down and hold hands.

He started it, though, by being an ass about the original joke. If instead of “I hear you get sodomized quite often” he’d gone with something like “The 3 meter tall demon and I had great chemistry!”, she’d probably have left it at that.

He seems like SUCH a self-important douche. In almost every interview I’ve read with him he comes across as insufferable. Trivial side note on his schmuck-ness: I own the Forgetting Sarah Marshall DVD and in the audio commentary Judd Apatow asked the cast not to curse bc his kids were in the booth (I’m assuming the…

He agreed to be in the movie and he agreed to play the part. He signed up to simulate sodomy with an 8 foot tall demon. She did not sign up for him to say “looks like you take it up the ass, ha ha ha,” which is basically what he did.

I don’t really see how he can get offended after saying “I heard you get sodomized quite often”.

But...men talk about women like that all the time already. You don’t need to imagine it...it happens constantly.

You mean, like jokes that are made all the time by male comedians already? Or the joke he made about this woman being sodomized all the time? No one here is “freaking out” about that, sooo...

Yeah, he should have been able to come back with a quick witticism. Like, “yeah, that’s the same as the sex fantasy that I have, except after I leave I fall, and then I keep falling, and then I’m in the woods and there’s this circle of goat people, and they’re chanting, and there’s blood everywhere, and I try to ask…

I don’t really see how he can get offended after saying “I heard you get sodomized quite often”. I mean, her initial comment about the demon was off-color, but no more off-color than the fact he chose to be in a scene that played a rape as comedy in the first place. And her response was, if anything, a de-escalation…

I didn’t care much for the joke, but I agree. It’s as if half of the roles he’s taken aren’t centered around the exact premise of that joke.

“female” is an adjective that refers to hardware and animals. Human females are women or girls. “Female” dehumanizes women. It is never appropriate in reference to people.

If this was a singular issue and a one time thing I would probably agree, tell the employee to knock it off and move on. However it sounds like, based on this blog post, this isn’t a one time thing and there is a growing hostile work environment for many people not just her.

I don’t think it’s nothing. I think this article does a kind of weak job highlighting a bunch of incidents which cumulatively point to a toxic work environment for female employees at Apple in general, while unfortunately highlighting a specific incident involving a specific woman who, comes off as fairly…

Regarding the disparity.. Actually, that’s exactly the point. Do you know how many girls, even now, are told “Girls aren’t good at math.” starting when they’re toddlers. Women are consistently pushed away from any STEM curriculum. It’s changing, but it’s still a very long way to go.

I agree that this incident is completely ridiculous, but I also have no problem believing this was simply the straw that broke the camel’s back.

So I did read the chat log, and you are right, she is the only one that mentions the word rape.

30+ guys and 1 woman in her group and you think she should be fired?

I have to agree that we are missing some information and it would seem too much punishment to fire them. Just saying that, in light of her past experience, I can’t dismiss her behavior as that of a whiny coddled child.