Never claimed to be. However, it’s a two way street in business, with the speaker and the listener both responsible for what they do. If you pitch me an idea and sound completely unsure of yourself why should I assume that your idea is sound? Your pitch is 2 parts: delivery and content. I’m not saying you need to have…

In general when adjusting speech patterns I find broader advice more helpful than specific word removal. My current methodology is to turn your questions/qualifiers into statements. Like replacing “I think” with “My advice is.” Or “maybe we could” with “My plan is.”

THIS.

I don't know what that's supposed to mean either. Most bosses want the exact opposite.

Eh, I discredit contributions said in a mealy way no matter the gender of the speaker. Also - I’m a woman.

“...if you think about how women are culturally conditioned to be so sympathetic and empathic to the needs of others well before their own that they essentially walk on permanent eggshells, as if invisibly bumping into humanity at all times.”

Of course not. Why would you ask that?

I left this comment earlier, on the original Jalopnik article (with the same inflammatory freak-out language you’re deriding here):

I don’t have enough stars...

Well what do you think they're chasing all that glorious cheese with? IT AINT ICED TEA FRIEND.

I was SUPER confused when I saw those, as I thought a specific country relates to ethnicity, whereas race was a more physical indicator. Then again, this might be my non-Asian privilege showing, where I probably don’t even realize all the nuances that go into how Samoans identify as a completely different race than…

Oh shit, I guess I missed that meeting. There are indeed a lot of white and black Hispanic people, I'm speaking for those of us who are brown. We never get a damn box.

The options are:

It doesn’t, the options are:

Ok, so what box do you check? I’m assuming you are Hispanic. Please help me navigate this effed-upness. I refuse to identify as “white” after weathering years of teasing and insults by white kids through my childhood.

Yeah I get it, but I really thought it could be used for both. I’m half Hispanic and half white, and sick and goddamn tired of having to check 'white' or 'other' as race on forms. Can we get a 'brown' box?

Agree 100%

Oh wait, Mexicans aren’t white now? Can someone please tell the US Census bureau so they can fix their FUCKING AWFUL census form that will let you identify as Hispanic as an ethnicity but not race. Apparently there are no brown people in this fucking country, just black, white and Pacific Islander.

Diamond's platform is said to revolved around revoking the town's leash law and tripling the fire hydrants. Also - taxes are to be paid in peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. Late fees will consist of submitting to face licks.

Well first of all PJ is a lying liar - You don’t come to Pennsylvania for fireworks, Pennsylvania goes to other states for fireworks because here in PA the only thing you can buy are fucking sparklers. You sure as hell can’t buy mortars here, and this is not even close to a new thing.