Not missiles, PHOTON TORPEDOES.

Sadly, it is not just a human thing. It’s a patriarchy thing. There are many studies that show women are interrupted far more often than men. In spaces both men and women occupy, men will dominate most of the conversation, often under the impression it’s the women who are talking more. Though we’re all guilty of…

You think it’s just a human thing and not a gender issue because it seems normal and neutral to you when women are interrupted more often than men. It’s not just a human thing. It’s a gender thing. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117757…

Guys don’t “just” do that, they’re socialized to do that. That’s really important. If you’re told over and over in a million little ways that your opinion is important and worthy of being heard, and that what women say is basically inconsequential, it’s going to feel natural and normal to dominate conversations and…

I appreciate you saying you will attempt to condition yourself to use woman instead of female. And that it will be hard, because that’s honest, but just do it, because MANY women find it offensive and dehumanizing.

THANK YOU. I am an editor and this is my number one English language pet peeve. And it’s becoming more and more common. I used to mark the use of “female” with “??? Human? Baboon? Pufferfish?.” The writers I was editing for were not amused.

I’m an editor and you asked, soo...

My biggest beef with this particular terminology is grammatical: Female is an adjective. As is Male. Using them as nouns is grating to me and my English degree.

*Women. You work in an office with mostly women, unless some of the aforementioned coworkers are in fact from other, non-human species.

I read what you wrote. You were complaining because “HOW ARE MEN SUPPOSED TO SIGNAL THEIR INTEREST??” I answered - at work, you DON’T. Full stop. It’s work, not OKCupid. If you’re looking for a girlfriend, get on a dating site, download tinder, go to a bar and use the best pickup line ever (“Hi.”), but never “signal”…

there’s nothing inherently wrong with communicating your attraction to someone or just making a complimentary comment in passing.

1) It was her BOSS. A boss should never be commenting on the attractiveness of a subordinate.

It’s cool how you slam her for being a racist but use misogynist language. A+.