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I’m sorry to hear that you’re discouraged — that really sucks, but I also don’t envy you, tbh. I’m also peripherally in real estate (gov’t relations for developers), so I know the type (how do they all manage to achieve the exact, terrible shade of fake tan?); luckily I don’t really have to deal with the shenanigans.…
RIGHT? Like that is on a whole other level of creepy. Bad enough having club style dance hostesses at a mixed gender event but the sexy baby thing is even worse.
And at best they were representing teenagers :/ I really don’t get why the whole “Look I’m a child in my teenie weenie uniform. (You know the clothes I wear to school, that thing that CHILDREN go to.)“ is so widespread in popular culture.
FOR REAL. I’m a woman in the commercial real estate industry. I’m always shocked at the gender roles when I attend conventions/events and it actually makes me hate going to them. It is some kind of unspoken rule that every man attending has to have an army of inappropriately dressed women at their booth as “helpers”.…
It’s the main reason my SO has a strict 1-hr time limit for corporate events. He works for a commercial real estate company (a sector that rivals any other for antiquated gender roles), and his boss hires scantily-clad “hostesses” for all their corporate events. And it’s not like there aren’t female brokers/support…
Sure, me too. But I also know lots of men who would be a lot more comfortable with women dancing on the tables than participating in any other way.
Or dressed as teenaged girls.
I know men who would have been uncomfortable at this event too, honestly.
Look Microsoft, having a “women in gaming” lunch is great! But you can’t use that as a sheild when you then make women incredibly uncomfortable in the spaces where a lot of networking connections are going to get made.
Like was this person plastered when they planned this? How did this ever seem like a good idea?
Let’s hope, anyway!
Don’t live in that bubble. This country is full of dumb swing voters. They will never look at his tax plan and even if they did they would support it. He isn’t a flat taxed but it’s like when I explained the flat tax to my family at Thanksgiving. We are all middle class at best and everybody thought it was a fantastic…
African-American Republicans are almost as rare as unicorns. Republicans do quite poorly in the Latino community almost everywhere outside of the right wing Cuban community in Florida. So, black and Latino Republicans supporting him does him very little good.
I think there are probably four divisions: highly unfavorable, unfavorable, favorable, high favorable; the total unfavorability is probably 60-70%. But having so much in highly unfavorable translates to his losing women by 15-20 points in the general election (those with strong opinions more likely to vote), which is…
Planned Parenthood isn’t going to matter when Trump launches off nukes because some other world leader insulted him. His narcissism and misogyny in pretty much all other aspects of his platform override that one socially liberal aspect for me. Kasich does have some backwards-ass views on women’s rights, but at least…
...and that just about sums up everything wrong with the Republican party. UGH.
These are the numbers I tell myself when I start to panic about a Trump presidency. You simply can not win in 2016 with just the angry white person vote. Those of us who are not anti-immigrant, racist, misogynists ned to vote in DROVES.
I think at this point, it's the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.