Once again, ageism is still not okay.
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You might ask for their supervisor, you might not. You don’t know until you are in the situation. It seems like you have never been in a similar situation and would not know what it is like.
I’d like to go on a rant here about being a female academic but I’m afraid I would have an actual anuerism and die. But let’s just say... it. is. bullshit. and it doesn’t end. You deal with patronising until you are 40, and then you hit 40 and you disappear. Ok. I can can no further. I will honestly explode.
*shakes fist at the patriarchy that has wrapped me so deeply in its web*
I once heard on NPR about a Harvard Professor who gave this riddle to their first year Med students.
I should have pursued this more, but back in the 80's, I was flying from Seattle to Anchorage and getting another flight up to Barrow, AK. The person at the counter ignored me for FORTY-FIVE EFFING MINUTES. TO FIGURE OUT HOW HIS FRIEND COULD GET THE MOST OUT OF HIS MILES.
Well, that’s socialization for you right there. White men are taught not to put up with such behavior. Women are usually taught to keep their mouths shut. And maybe smile more.
The last pharmacy I worked at before my current job, I had a high school boy who worked part-time as an assistant. He was 16 and looked about 14.
I used to work for a govt. planning agency. One of the best private sector engineers we worked with was a 28 year old woman. Before a meeting I once heard a 60s-ish male attorney ask her what she did for the engineering firm. She replied, “I’m an engineer.” He replied (with a surprised tone) “Oh good for you!” I felt…
Happens all the damn time to me. Most recently, my company put together a trade show and I’m the purchasing manager so I’m top bitch. It was fucking infuriating having the vendor reps shake their glasses at me and ask if I can ‘fill them up’ while staring at my boobs. I’m the one that decides if you make your sales…
After working as an ER nurse for years, a friend of mine just finished her training to become a flight attendant.
Yep, I’ve seen it myself. I once had a CIO who was 40-ish blonde woman. Her administrative assistant was a white guy, and people WITHIN THE COMPANY would still direct more technical questions to him, even though she taught him everything he knew.
It’s worse for women of colour, but I think all women get this, especially when they’re younger. A friend of mine is head of policy for the charity where she works, but people will always try to talk to her male colleagues (to their credit, they direct the questions back to my friend). It’s really frustrating to watch…
I feel this. Fuck this stewardess and fuck Delta. Fuck the assumption that every authority figure has to be a white man.
It will get *a little* better as she ages. If you’re young, black and female, folks assume that your highest vocation should be a customer rep for the DMV.
Yeah, one of my closest friends dropped out of a top med-school to become a flight attendant. She just really loves getting paid well to travel, and I can totally understand why.
Leave the mental qualities of much of the flying public out of this. They aren’t nuts. They are just the other half that balances ‘above average.’
My experience with Delta, as a brown lady. Three years ago, flying from a meeting in Detroit to SF, standing in the premier line. Gate agent repeatedly tries to shoo me out of the line a good 10 minutes before boarding was going to start. Mind you he approached none of the other (white, male) passengers in the…
All women have experienced some form of sexual assault, and most have been made to feel it’s normal or that they were part of the problem. I’ll never forget when, at 11,I had a dance recital and was waiting for my turn on stage. I dared to walk around backstage in my leotard, and a patron saw me as she passed by, an…