I feel like I’ve said this way too many times this year... but this case it’s so damn applicable.

She definitely did... Very clearly. While referring to small business owners.

Chemical engineer from Canada checking in (re: podcast comment)! I usually don’t mind engineers, but if he worked in R&D I don’t blame him for not liking ‘real world’ engineers.

I think a very significant number of men really haven’t crossed that line with people, but there’s also a significant portion that have, even if they didn’t quite realize it at the time. So, good on you, keep doing what you’re doing, make an effort to call people on their shit (men/women alike).

Gah. I make this point under my breath at work all the damn time. Our very involved President/CEO has fired people on the spot numerous times in the past months, all for mainly not blindly agreeing to his way of doing things or just because he didn’t like them/was angry. A few of those firings have fucked up some…

If you aren’t breaking ribs while doing CPR you aren’t likely pressing hard enough to be effective. A person I swim with, which is a rather large man, broke numerous ribs after receiving CPR a few weeks ago. Excluding the fire fighters who arrived later adn took over from the lifeguards, everyone doing CPR was smaller…

Oh fuck off. It is not a reasonable request to want a safe work environment free of harassment but also want the opportunity to advance. Never being in a meeting alone with a man would demolish my career, because I ONLY WORK WITH MEN. I will not accept that I just can’t do my dream career because the poor men just…

Same here. Woman in oil & gas/engineering. If the men I work with all decided they could no longer have meetings/eat alone with me, I’d literally have a hard time being a productive worker because literally all of the other project manager/engineers ARE MEN. Luckily, they treat me like a human and the world keeps…

That’s most definitely still harassment. She’s working, she does not want to be put into a position where she has to reject someone propositioning here, ESPECIALLY someone who holds considerably sway in her chosen industry.

Being forward with people you’re interested in sexually can be fine, as long as you are open to them saying no and leave it at that. But it is NEVER fine, to just proposition someone you work with out of the blue, AT WORK. If you politely ask them out (assuming they do not report to you or you are clearly in a…

I’m not married yet... but heading that way with my current SO. I’d have to agree. While sex is very important to me, parental compabitility, emotional support, etc. are way way way more important in a future partner. Sex is great with my SO, and keep sgetting better actually, but barring terrible this ain’t working…

I know someone who’s name is Abel Tesfaye, not sure where his family is from but I believe somewhere on the Northern parts of Africa. I think it’s quite a beautiful name, but yeah, I can see why someone in the music industry might use something else for fear of... certain people... not exactly embracing a name that…

Yup. My best friend and I got amazingly closer many years ago when we both realized that each other had a remarkably similar upbringing that most people can’t quite understand. We had neglectful, emotionally abusive fathers who either actually or effectively left our mothers as single parents. We both had effectively…

Oh my god. She’s furious in this clip. Wow. Well done for keeping her words so concise and measured, wow.

Wow, I know science at higher learning just teaches you a lot about that specific topic... but still.

WHAT. I hadn’t heard about vaccination business. She has a god damn PhD in science but doesn’t wholeheartedly support vaccines? What the flying fuck.

Great point! It’s not black and white across all men/women, but it can be for one specific person with another specific person. Context, consent, communication. There’s so much needed.

I’m a yearish younger, so theoretically I’m the age she would’ve been when she was writing the songs. I realllllly don’t get this last album, I adored her when I was a teenager and her songs just really fit that side of my life. This... seems incredibly immature. Not sure if she hasn’t grown up properly or if she’s…

I’ve found the ‘me too’ movement on Monday has had a drastic impact on me this week. It was cathartic but also has made me absolutely furious. It brought up instances of assault that I had buried, and also just has me dead set on NO MORE LETTING IT GO. I don’t care if I lose ‘friends’ over my new mindset. If me making…

I just commented this, but you were more eloquent. Well done.