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I didn't say "Is it ok if she's Mexican and wears a baseball cap?" to the woman who came into the shop today to ask "Isn't there someone here who is closer to my age? I need an opinion." I also did not say "I have many opinions, one being that you are an ass-faced donkey whore," or "She is out on vacation right now, but you are welcome to blow a lobster," or "You look like you're in your late 40s. I'm closer to your age than Blanche buttfucking Devereaux," or "Sure I'll go get her" and duck behind the counter only to hobble back into the shop all haggafied, with a scarf wrapped around my head, dark glasses and a walking cane.
Instead I politely went to get the manager who in her noble aged wisdom happily and proudly gave her godlike opinion on violets for a tea party, as I glowered in the back room. This kill them with kindness biz can suck my velvet balls. D'nay tells me I should've told the lady "I'm a mother!" like what the fuck would that do? People hate kids as much as Nazis nowadays. Everything always goes back to if I were a dolphin I wouldn't have these problems.

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my last job was in a male dominated corporation of engineers, and ooooh honeychile.

I thought once I started working at the university that it would be different. I imagined intelligent academic types. I am having to radically reset my imaginings.

Case in point: This morning one of the American sociology lecturers walked past my desk and saw the mango I had sitting on a pile of papers. He asked what it was, and I said "uhhhh it's a mango" and he said he had never actually seen a mango before, he had only eaten "mango
flavoured things". And I said "they smell really good, don't they?" and he stands behind me and puts his hands on my shoulders and says "I would love to smell your mangoes".

Separate from obvious repulsiveness, what kind of 40 year old man has never seen a mango?

ok so WOW, that story enrages me. what a horrible creep who needs to be beaten with mangoes mercilessly.
please PLEASE have him incinerated.

a guy touched me at work ONCE. rested his hand on my hip, and i said "STOP" loudly so that others would hear and see. he was GONE the next day.

lady, don't suffer that fool. i hate to think of what else he's gotten away with.

I know, I should have called it. I just said "Oh wow. That wasn't totally inappropriate at all, was it?" and swiveled away on my chair. The Haughty Swivel.
An hour later I was in the staff room and he came in and started complaining about something. He complains ALL the time about how American universities are so much better, and "this would never happen in America" and how he's the only organised and competent academic here, etc.
So I said (while casually eating my sandwich) "well, as I understand it, you couldn't get tenure in America. Isn't that right? No one would give you a job? Isn't that why you accepted the position here in the first place? So."

as well, a guy like that could get so fired in America for that kind of behavior. hardCORE AND have the fate of his entire career RUINED.
smell yr mangoes inDEED. he wants to smell my fist in his nose.

he wants to smell my fist in his nose - hah, this is a perfect example of how profiling you only points people in all the wrong directions. They just don't KNOW.

My favorite is the hobbling back all haggafied -- it reminds me of a Mr. Show sketch, for some reason.

heee, ahm cute as a snarling baby badger

i need to look into this mr. show. i hear alot about it.

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do you know how to spell caPAciTAtor?

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but there's T and A in capacitator

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