This is a real conversation. I am in a product meeting. I am a product marketing engineer. I was asked to get some coffee. Speechless and wounded, I sat in my seat. A few minutes later, the director of engineering asks why I haven’t gotten the coffee. Wimp that I am, I said I didn’t want coffee. Oh, and you don’t want…

An engineer friend told me yesterday, “I like it that you proposed a solution. You’re not usually that solution oriented.” after I spent 15 minutes trying to tell him the solution while he interrupted me. I explained that I always had solutions but that he typically never let me get that far before he took over the…

I have been called aggressive, intimidating and intense since I was about 16 so I get all this shit. My first job out of college I was a legal assistant for an attorney I had worked for and known for years. We shared an office space with a finance company and the hot young finance bro in the office, who I did not work…

If it was just about having a woman as president, I would much rather prefer Elizabeth Warren. HRC only supports things after the fact. Not to long ago she was against gay marriage. she is a smart woman and plays politics very well, but I want someone who will stand up for things even if its not always the most…

In grad school, a group of about 8 of us shared one big office with partitions. Once when the office phone rang, the two guys sitting on either side of the phone just sort of sat there and looked across the room at us women, as the phone continued to ring. “You know we don’t actually answer the phone with our vaginas,…

You know it. I once got a review saying that the some of the programmers found me “scary.” That would be... because I reported bugs in their code? Which I am paid to do? Using utterly neutral and polite language? Interesting.

But, remember ladies, the real reason there are not more women in tech is because we simply haven’t had enough opportunities to hack hairdryers.

/facepalm

This is such a thing. For forty years I was told I was too aggressive, bitchy, etc. My behavior has not changed, but now that I look male to these idiots, I am praised for my independence, assertiveness, and my no bullshit sensibilities.

Reminds me of the time I was told by an oil company recruiter that I was too aggressive for a woman and shouldn’t expect to do well. Oh and then there was that time some random guy in the company cafeteria asked to cut in front of me in line then proceeded to assume I was in HR (I’m not. I’m a scientist with an M.S.)…

I can’t see that “Silicon Valley” picture without thinking of the episode about the “negging” culture amongst tech companies, and Zach Woods perfectly explaining that negging is “a manipulative sex strategy used by lonely chauvinists.” It was hilarious to watch all the show’s bro fans melt down on Twitter after that…

If this is all I knew about her, my question would be, “hmmmm, would I vote for my mom?” This is the mom-est thing that ever happened.

I like this show. It great to have interesting antihero characters who women.

Its shark week and I am wayyyy in my feelings right now . What I’m reading is that one of the many guys who catcalls me at various places in my city could be my soulmate?

I’m late to to the party again. I am the kind of person who hooked up with everybody in my 20’s. There was literally no filter. If you flirted with me we were at least gonna kiss. I ended up bringing a terrible youngish grateful dead loving man child to our annual holiday bash.We drunkenly hooked up and the next…

I WAS A SCHOLAR. I HAD SCHOLARLY PURSUITS.

I got nuthin’ cause I’m a humbug, but I’m here for the stories.

One of the writers on Cracked does an occasional feature where he takes these old, disgusting recipes, makes them, and reviews them. They are as hideous as they are unappetizing.

I remember a lot of weird 70s throwback recipes from my 1980s childhood. Canned spaghetti on toast anyone? Marachino cherry & cream cheese sandwich? Sex in a Pan? (actually the Sex in a Pan is amazing, not only for the sex puns)

[internal screaming]

I suspect I may be their intended customer (professional woman, mid-30s, fond enough of simple sweaters to have half The Limited in my wardrobe), and I never shop at J.Crew. It’s not one sweater. It’s that everything in the store seems incredibly overpriced for what it is, and the brand hasn’t done much to highlight…