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> With that disclaimer out of the way, I would have serious concerns about a male employee with 'valley girl' rising terminals in meetings. If you had two empl
by elliekelly 5y ago
> With that disclaimer out of the way, I would have serious concerns about a male employee with 'valley girl' rising terminals in meetings.
If you had two employees, one man and one woman, and they both spoke like a “Valley Girl” which would you judge more harshly? I suspect the man, for fairly to conform to expected gender norms/stereotypes.
That’s exactly why it’s sexist.
- dekhn 5y agoafter reading about high terminal in the NY Times a long time ago I started using it myself, specifically when I was not sure of something, as a way to indicate lack of confidence. After a while I noticed people never picked up on it so I stopped.