Whether or not my offering to split the check results in an adverse reaction from the man makes a big impact on whether or not there will be a next date :)

I thought the person extending the invite usually paid. I mean if you are going by formal etiquette rules.

Really? I bet you my entire bar cart and my spare fridge full of booze that if she said something like “I used to benefit from it, sure, but now I see it as a horrible thing” people would be like “oh, of course NOW you realize how bad it is after YOU benefited from it”. It’s like, no, you get no points for any…

And honestly, do you really understand that at 24? I wouldn’t have. I’d have been like “Yes I am awesome and this is the just and eternal reward for my awesomeness”. It’s not until later that you realize that “awesome” only lasts until you’re not dewy-fresh anymore.

I can’t complain about it because I benefitted from it.

“There’s nothing you can do about it”

Once upon a time, a company we’ll call “Schmattel” paid me $25/hr to go to events dressed as a character we’ll call “Flarbie” and then I turned 28 and I haven’t heard from them since.

I think the problem is, Hollywood doesn’t make the same movies it used to. Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock built careers out of playing the leads in romantic comedies. Not the female lead. Or the second lead. The fucking lead. Generally, that’s what an actress did when she got out of her ingenue phase.…

I remember a joke from 30 Rock when Jenna was auditioning for a part and she mentions only she and Julie Bowen are up for it because basically the only parts for “middle aged” women are in bad Adam Sandler/Kevin James comedies about men who hate their wives and they’re in the weird hollywood sweet spot for the roles.…

All I can think of is that scene from 30 rock, where Jenna Maroney is playing the mom of a teen. “But I’m...41 now...time...to die. *dies*”

See? The system works! Actresses just need to make all their money by 25, then use the rest of their lives to tell stories about the time they were young enough to be captured on film.

There is one training standard. The women who made it through went through the same shit as the men, so you can take your straw man and go home.

I get what they are trying to show

So, here’s the thing. Aside from the fact that this conversation is wildly inappropriate for the workplace, these are people supposedly responsible for following evidence to its logical conclusion, for complex analytical situations, in addition to tactical street/traffic/ whatever stuff. The guy says, “my wife hated…

I know, it’s such a drag when people think it’s weird I don’t know basic day-to-day information relevant to half the world’s population, including the people with whom I share my home and my life. That’s just, like, girl stuff. I’m not gay!

You probably should not be discussing what their dicks look like while you’re at work, because it’s not appropriate! Sexual harassment is a thing, whether you think it is or not.

It’s misogynistic based on the blatant fact that they are sexualizing her and making assumptions about her based solely on appearances.

He also doesn’t seem to entirely grasp how Fish and Chips work.

Nothing is funnier than hearing men talk about something they know nothing about. “No, no bro, I swear, she had, like sextuple D’s!” Sure, bro. Sure.