If he’s this far along in his career and was that highly esteemed, and still thinks that way to the point that he doesn’t pre-intuit the problem with saying what he did to a group of female scientists, then he probably IS ineducable, sorry.

I would think the ultimate sin would be to publicize someone’s real home address and then have people stalk it, send threatening postal mail to it, call it and shout death threats and hang up...to the point where they have to move out or get Anonymous to help them.

...real things that have happened to actual women.

Re-posting here as my original post seems to be in reply to the wrong thing.

Guys can joke about it with each other but women call the police because the guys know that they’re not under any real, serious threat of stalking, doxxing or actual death or violence threats. Women can’t know that, in fact they’re quite wise…

I suspect I attached my reply to the wrong post...crap. But there was a post that was all “women just need to grow a thicker skin, men joke about these things with each other, it doesn’t mean anything, women don’t get that” and some other bollocks.

Brianna Wu had her address posted online and received death threats as well as emails of pictures of mutilated dogs - that’s a pretty clear and present danger. Also, the whole “we guys joke about it all the time” - yeah right. Bullshit. You guys doxx each other, send each other death threats not only online but…

If you were a member of the population that it affects maybe you would feel differently.

Guys can joke about it with each other but women call the police because the guys know that they’re not under any real, serious threat of stalking, doxxing or actual death or violence threats. Women can’t know that, in fact they’re quite wise to think the opposite, as they can draw on examples of real life doxxing and…

First, no. You can’t justify “you should have expected this” with “it’s OK to treat people in a country illegally this way” and “it’s OK not to pay not only a living wage but no wage at all because it’s ‘competitive’ (bullshit) in that area”.

Hell, even if you know the language (let’s say you are a strong user, articulate with a strong understanding of the underlying systems at work in English usage) that’s no guarantee you can teach it. Plenty of people are experts at math or chemistry or whatever - actual mathematicians and chemists - who can’t teach…

Ooh me too except I was 19 and went to India, which made me REALLY an insufferable snob!

If you quit your job to travel for awhile you can defer them, because you’ll legitimately have no income.

Yeah...those people, whle I admire their gumption to go abroad and travel seriously, kind of give ESL as a profession a bad name. They usually have no training and think any native speaker can teach English, which is demonstrably not true. I’m not against the backpackers coming in and getting jobs in our profession -…

I’m kind of horrified that having a doctor’s note that one cannot physically wear heels is the focus of this whole thing.

I *can* wear heels. I’m perfectly able to, no specific health problems (well, I have plantar fasciitis, but technically if the heels have good arch support I can still wear them) that prohibit me…

And on an adjunct professor salary (I had read she was an adjunct), how does she afford it?

Can I just say I love the hair? And I’m as white as white can be (I could probably use correction fluid as a concealer) - is it even possible to, say, get the hair, but not dye it (well, I dye mine red, but I mean not like dye it to pretend to be another race) or pretend to be black or any other race, but just, like,…

Cultural capital honeymoon! Japan? Laos? Bhutan? India? Alaska? Turkey?

They are all terrible. Every single one of them. Cathay, Korean, ANA, EVA, JAL and Singapore are the best airlines and pretty much every airline in the USA sucks butt.

Well, I polished at Eton and summer* in Provence.

Just kidding you guys, I went to Lady Higginsbotham’s Ladies’ Finishing School for Ladies.

SUMMER IS A VERB

Yes, all true, but he could have been more professional about it - telling someone their idea is “tacky” is the height of unprofessionalism. A simple “I don’t do neck tattoos, I’m sorry” would have sufficed. He didn’t have to condescend to her with that stupid birthday cake analogy.

I think the author knows this...her main complaint is not that Dan won’t create art at her beck and call the way a server serves food, but that Dan was kind of a dick about it and was very unconvincing in his assertion he’d say what he said to a guy (just because someone questioned you, and you’re a guy, doesn’t mean…