Understand that you recommended to talk smack “when they’ve found it a dick that should be talked smack about”. You’ve climbed that hill before me.

for approximately 30 minutes.

Next time aguy talks smack about your body, take it in stride and remember your own comment. No body shaming, just ‘a body that should be talked smack about’.

when you’ve processed the idea that women trash collectors exist

My point is, that there ARE women who would love to work those hard labour jobs, and are fighting to be able to do so.

I don’t infer that at all, but unlike you I live in the real world were not all people are the same and aspire to the same jobs regardless of gender. Men will never seek to nursing and teaching jobs the same way women do and women will never seek hard labor jobs at the same number men do.

‘to check the gender of any garbage disposal workers receptionist, why would you?’

Or, you know, men are just not that interested in teaching little children.

Yours is unlimited and the absolute truth?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been working for a living for 30 years now. When I was young I had quite a few physically demanding jobs (roadside construction, working for UPS, delivering packages up to 70 kilogramm, driving trucks long distance and a few other jobs). The male to female ratio of workers and…

suing the city of Irving and its school district for $15 million

‘Guys’ being the key word.

According to his passport, he was born in Australia. I assume his parents speak English as well. They can name him however they see fit, yet for them to totally ignore the implications for by naming him ‘Phuc Dat’ seems kinda careless to me. Yes, we’re adults and yet many adults will continue to notice his name in the…

In your world, not in the real world.

About twenty years ago, so ask your parents kiddo.

Really, what were his parents thinking? He’s Australian, so his parents must have thought about how this combination of first name and family name must play out in any English speaking country. Both funny and cruel at the same time. ‘A boy named Phuc Dat Bich’.

As I said in another comment - the unicorns of garbage disposal. Showing a pic of a woman in this line of work is still the proverbial man-bites-dog-story. There are also pics of female firefighters, yet 96% of all firefighters are men.

Of course not. A guy who landed a job as a staff writer for jezebel has proven to have a penchant for the most unusual jobs.

If I called them garbagemen, I’d be hounded for the gendered language, if I called them garbage workers, it would be a pretty rude statement about the quality of their work. Wastepicker maybe?

Does that men, that when it comes to hiring nurses or teachers, professions where men are underrepresented, men are discriminated against? It must be, bc there can be no other explanation. I’m sure there are literally millions of women who would looove to work in those hard labor jobs, alas it’s the patriarchy holding…