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Discussing strip clubs in front of your colleagues is bad. Isn't worse because they are female.
by newswasboring 7y ago
Discussing strip clubs in front of your colleagues is bad. Isn't worse because they are female.
- cromwellian 7y agoTrue but it’s even more tone deaf when the sales bros/Mad Men aren’t even woke enough to realize what they’re doing outside the lockerroom.
- newswasboring 7y agoYeah but saying it to me (a male) would still be tone deaf, right? There are no locker rooms even in locker rooms these days. All I'm saying is, it being in front of me is disgusting enough.
- snagglegaggle 7y agoWhy is that? Are you uncomfortable with men expressing their sexuality? Or perhaps you see strippers as abused and taken advantage of? I personally think stripclubs arre a waste of money, but I know femenists that would take exception to either of those above.
- newswasboring 7y agoI'm not afraid or uncomfortable with expressions of sexuality but a boardroom is hardly an appropriate place for it. I don't understand the argument that just because something is a normal part of life it somehow becomes ok to talk about it anywhere. Taking a shit is a normal part of life, that doesn't make it ok to discuss your weekly bowl movements in the board room. In different social settings there are different levels of comfort between people. You can be ok with strip clubs, there are perfectly valid opinions for and against them, but I come to a board room to discuss business, not your sexuality.
- snagglegaggle 7y agoIf it was the topic of the board meeting, definitely not appropriate, but otherwise it's just the conversation was not meant for you. Can you imagine the abuse I'd catch if I complained about overhearing women talk about their periods? Or, to make it more fair, planning some kind of hypersexualized bachelorette party.
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- gefh 7y agoIt is bad, but also worse if they're female. Unless they were discussing male strip clubs?
- newswasboring 7y agoPlease explain to me how it's worse? I find it offensive because it's discussion of sexuality and a sexually charged topic in a massively inappropriate setting. If I was a female, why should I feel worse? Just because the performers there are female?
- cromwellian 7y agoYes. It's like saying if your colleagues are using the N-word and making racist statements, would African Americans in the room feel worse than the white people? Yes they would. No matter how "woke" or allied you think you are, there's no way the lived experience of a white person reacts the same way to people reinforcing systemic racism than that of those who have to live under that experience.