Thanks for posting that Hardline essay. I think it’s great video game critics are interrogating, negotiating, problematizing the political and social ideologies of video games. There’s been frequent calls for the depoliticization of video game criticism, but I steadfastly refuse to believe that this would improve…

My former boss was ranting about how a female co-worker had to leave early to pick up her sick child from school. “It’s irresponsible. I have a kid and you don’t see me ever having to go pick her up because she’s sick.”

What is that?! We had a couple of windows replaced in our house a few years ago and we have 1 more that needs to be, so I email the guy who sold us the other ones to ask for a quote...he responds TO MY HUSBAND even though it is clearly my email and I signed it and then wants to come over at a time that is convenient…

Always remember: HR is NOT your friend. They are there to protect the company from you and the guilty party rarely pays. I've known of ONE instance where a man was fired for sexually harassing a subordinate. And if she hadn't been a top seller and had documentation of incidences (and witnesses), she probably would…

I KNOW RIGHT?!?!?!

My sister works in a hospital, as a doctor. She gets called nurse ALL THE TIME, despite the white coat. I keep telling her to go all Dr. Evil on them, but she just rolls with it. She’s nicer than me.

More bosses like her please. Also I know that it may be counter-productive to say this, but...MORE SCARED BABY-MEN PLEASE.

I overheard my boss telling someone that another female employee was transferred to our agency because she got pregnant during the busy time of the year. My boss was actually quite happy to get the pregnant employee and he says she is very smart. He thinks the people who transferred her out are idiots. We do office…

It’s sad because the law school graduation rates say you as a woman are more likely to be the attorney, but it’s happened to me in a field which graduates are disproportionately female as well. Like so:

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I have a coworker that I CANNOT. STAND. because he is so impossibly sexist. Yesterday he took me around to take a look at some building systems that I am auditing. The amount of “don’t stand too close to that, you’ll get all dirty” and “women aren’t really cut out for this kind of work because it’s too messy” comments…

OH GOD. I work in manufacturing, soft sexism/racism is my life. Like, maybe you should just not talk about how “Black Lives Matter” protesters are protesting the wrong thing when your boss is a WOC?

"Oh, are you the paralegal?"

All the times I’ve said something to a man, was kind of ignored, then what I said was repeated by another man and that turned out to be a great idea/funny/helpful/worthy of attention.

I don’t know if this counts as soft sexism or blatant: I work in the HVAC industry, an industry that is predominantly male. Every time I go to events like expo’s or training seminars it is typically assumed that I am:

Being asked to “spot clean” the coffee spill in male colleague/superior’s office in the interim before maintenance got there. Just to get ahead of it and make sure it doesn’t stain. But he got there 30 mins before I did and the spill happened sometime between then. If you’re so worried about staining and spot treating…

That's what you think.

I've never read "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn", but I loved the "Otherland" series by Tad Williams.

In fact, reading "Ready Player One" gave me a total hankering to go and read "Otherland" again.