Fair, but counterpoint : I’m pretty short (like 5'3") and shorter heels often look more “proportionally correct” on me. Like, a super high heel does not make me look taller — it makes me look like a short girl in big shoes, especially from any view other than the front straight-on.

And I really fail to see the point of kvetching about these. Yeah the rhinestones are kinda wait what, but to me personally high heels are far stupider. (Shrug).

Jesus what a shitty response. Way to totally validate this:

My father has a tbi and this same problem. He has gotten evicted from a nursing home for inappropriately touching staff. I love him and try to empathize with him, but I respect the home for not tolerating mistreatment of their employees. I did not try to draw out his humiliation and I understand he’s not always in his…

You seem very motivated to defend sex harassers - why?

I think sexual harassment is a bad thing.

I know from my experience in the workforce and as a union activist that the most effective way to prevent sexual harassment is to have a zero tolerance policy - in the case of employees, this means harass once, you lose…

I can’t tell you how to flirt. I can tell you how NOT to flirt:

I don’t think it’s a matter of having enough outrage. It sounds more like an unwillingness to give up the comfort that a privilege affords. During the antebellum era, most Southerners were too poor to own slaves, but they supported the rich southerners that did own slaves because of the comfort and privilege that…

There’s gradients of moral compromise, and then there’s supporting a chain that’s enabled sexual predators for years in a systemic pattern while you enjoy feeling catered to as a geek. Alamo is just one of many other spaces offered to us, many of which don’t make marginalizing assault and harassment a staple of their…

It’s a fucking movie theater.

I have vowed never to disengage, I feel like we need to keep our eyes and ears open. My line in the sand is if Trump fires Muller. If that happens I’m absolutely taking to the streets. No violence, but this old bird is out there.

Yeah, when “Too bad for those women, but, you know, what about my entertainment?” is your response, you’re kind of a shitty person.

You’re not going to get sued for flirting

You probably won’t even get sued for harassment.

You claim not to know the difference - well, let me ask you to do a thought experiment.

Imagine you are talking to a big strong gay bodybuilder - a guy physically powerful enough that he could make you do pretty much whatever he…

At this point, it still feels like a mess we can get out of by voting in 2018 & 2020. I don’t want to break the system. In fact, some of the scariest things to me have been the extent to which Trump & Co have been breaking existing bipartisan norms. To my mind, breaking the system makes recovery from this disaster…

“But it’ll hurt the man’s feelings!”

“...an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated.”

So they will eject someone for forgetting to mute their phone and getting a text, but not someone for making lewd, suggestive comments and physically grabbing an employee. Awesome.

Sweet Jesus... when anyone ever asks “Why don’t/didn’t the victims say something?!” Well... It’s because this is just like that part in a fucking horror movie where the establishment tells this guy “Hey uhhhh someone said you said something super rape-y, sign this thing admitting it and don’t do it again” then…

this: In 1982 I worked in a lumber yard. The boss had no more than high school education. One day I’m standing there and a cashier complains that the manager put his hands on her shoulders, giving an unwanted “massage”. The boss where did it happen, and she told him in the backstock shed. He told her to wait for him…

Keep Austin weird, but when we say weird we mean like still allowing all the patriarchal bullshit and sexual subjugation of women but with better music and maybe like a fun tie or white dude dreadlocks, I don’t know, you know what I mean.

Are you serious? The threshold for criminal prosecution is not the bar for employee behavior nor should it be. The one who needs to STFU and do some soul searching is you.