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Rape Culture At Work

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 27th August 2013

Good morning!

More of the sick sick same same…

From Think Progress:

Rape Culture At Work: Five Examples Of How Employers Turn Women Into Sex Objects

BY TARA CULP-RESSLER AND BRYCE COVERT ON AUGUST 22, 2013 AT 11:57 AM

CREDIT: Shutterstock

It’s no secret that women face a disproportionate amount of discrimination in the workplace. One-third of women say they have been subject to some type of workplace discrimination at some point in their careers — which can range from being paid less for the same type of work, to being denied a promotion, to being scrutinized more carefully than their male colleagues.

But the issues that women encounter on the job can run deeper than being unfairly assumed to be less competent or less valuable than their male counterparts. In many cases, women are up against very specific assumptions about their sexuality, their role as “objects” intended to be attractive to men, and their responsibility to prevent men from desiring them.

That attitude toward women’s bodies becomes entrenched at an early age, as girls are told what type of clothing is or isn’t appropriate to wear at school so they don’t “distract” the male students. And it carries over into the workplace, too, as adult women repeatedly receive the message that they are responsible for both obscuring and leveraging their sexuality for men’s purposes. Here are just five recent examples:

A New Jersey judge ruled that casino waitresses can be fired for gaining weight.

Twenty two former cocktail servers sued a popular casino in Atlantic City over a policy that forbids waitresses from gaining more than seven percent of their original body weight. The women were subject to regular weigh-ins, and the policy meant that a 130-pound woman was not allowed to gain more than 9.1 pounds. They alleged it was weight discrimination — but an Atlantic County Superior Court Judge disagreed. In July, the judge ruled that casino waitresses are essentially “sex objects,” and it’s okay to fire them for gaining weight because they are no longer fulfilling their contractual obligations.

A widely-used employee training manual tells women how to make sure they don’t lead men on.

Earlier this week, Jezebel reported that a popular manager training guide — used as companies like Google, Groupon, and Modcloth — essentially tells women that they’re responsible for preventing advances from their male co-workers. The manual tells women who are “touchy-feely or flirtatious by nature” to “dial it back,” suggests women socialize in groups, and advises women to avoid “revealing clothing” or “ending statements with an upward inflection.”

Women at Merrill Lynch have been instructed to seduce their way to the top.

Other employee trainings have similarly gone off the rails when it comes to guidance on women’s behavior in the workplace. Female employees at Merrill Lynch allege they were made to read a book called “Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics From a Woman at the Top” and tomake use of its advice to get ahead. To get men to do their work, the book suggested “play[ing] on their masculine pride and natural instincts to protect the weaker sex.” To diffuse tense situations, it pointed out that men “puff up” at being told, “Wow, you look great. Been working out?” The women also allege that they were pressured to attend female-only events on “dressing for success” and were told to be more “perky” and “bubbly.”

The Iowa Supreme Court decided it’s okay to fire attractive women if they pose a risk to men’s marriages.

James Knight, a dentist in Iowa, didn’t fire his female assistant Melissa Nelson after 10 years of working for him because of performance reasons. Instead, Nelson alleges that Knight’s wife told him to do it because “she was a big threat to our marriage” given that he was sexually attracted to her. Yet in July, the all-male Iowa Supreme Court stood by an earlier decision that she wasn’t improperly fired because it wasn’t gender discrimination. Instead, her firing was found permissible because of the facts surrounding her relationship with Knight, such as several comments he made about her clothing and the fact that they texted each other after work hours.

Two hotel employees were fired after they complained about being photoshopped onto bikini-clad bodies.

Two sisters, Martha and Lorena Reyes, say they were fired from the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, CA after they complained about photoshopped images of them. In the photos, the women’s heads were photoshopped onto the bodies of women wearing bikinis. Lorena told Jezebel that they were “extremely humiliating and shameful for me” and also said she has never worn a bikini, even at home. While the company says it fired them two days after they complained about the images because they took overly long breaks, the sisters feel it was related to the incident. The Reyes sisters have filed a retaliation charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

*** Just like when it comes to school dress codes, the issues at play in the above scenarios are ultimately a manifestation of rape culture. Many Americans think of “rape culture” specifically in the context ofincidences of sexual assault, but it’s actually a pervasive societal attitude about women’s sexuality that runs much deeper and influences a much broader range of interactions. When women in the workplace are sexualized in these ways, they’re receiving the message that their bodies have everything to do with men’s reactions to them and nothing to do with their own autonomy or consent. This approach to gender roles assumes that men can’t control themselves around women, and it’s women’s responsibility to figure out how to handle that. And ultimately, this culture contributes to high rates of sexual harassment in the workplace: One in four women report having experienced such abuse.

But once women and men internalize those messages about women’s bodies, it’s not hard to see why many of them may assume that women who are subject to that sexual harassment — or other types of sexual violence — probably did something to “deserve it.”

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The Blame Game In The Workplace

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 26th August 2013

Good Monday morning!

Many of you are probably at work right now. What I want to know is, does your Manager Training Guide have guidelines and suggestions such as this? I thought it was a joke when I read it. But nope – this is true.

From Think Progress:

Manager Training Guide Blames Women For Coworkers Who Come On To Them

BY BRYCE COVERT ON AUGUST 21, 2013 AT 10:35 AM

CREDIT: Shutterstock

Jhana, an online resource with articles and tools for managers used by employees at Google, Groupon, Eventbrite, Modcloth, and Ask.com, published an article called “What if a male colleague gets the wrong idea?” to help women deal with unwanted sexual advances in the workplace. Unfortunately, as Jezebel’s Erin Gloria Ryan found, the manual doesn’t offer helpful advice for how to tell men to back off or even report inappropriate behavior, but instead tells women how they can modify their clothes and behavior to avoid it, placing the blame and the solution for the problem with them.

While the article may have been taken down (and is behind a paywall), Ryan took screenshots of the various tips that it gives to working women. Some of the problematic advice (emphasis added):

If you act the same way — always professional, but also always like yourself — around everyone, the problematic colleague will be less likely to get the idea that you’re coming on to him. One caveat: If you’re touchy-feely or flirtatious by nature, you might want to dial it back around him and any guys from whom you sense discomfort.
Be highly aware of the signals you’re sending out — both verbal and nonverbal. In a perfect world, women would feel free to dress however they want without being stigmatized for it. But know that revealing clothing and certain verbal tics, such as ending statements with an upward inflection in your voice or struggling to accept a compliment, can affect others’ ability to take you seriously.
Don’t say or do anything you wouldn’t say or do in the presence of your grandmother. If you sense that you could start unconsciously flirting (you’re human, and sometimes it happens), imagine that your grandmother is in the room. If you’d feel embarrassed saying or doing whatever you’re about to say or do in front of Grandma, don’t go there.
If he still doesn’t get the message, socialize in groups, especially after hours and outside the office. There’s a greater chance that the guy will misinterpret your behavior in 1-on-1 situations that happen outside the office.
Always pay attention to your creep-o-meter. Every woman has one. If you get even a faint whiff of creepiness off of the guy or anyone else at work, ask yourself if it’s really worth trying to get to know the person. In most cases, it isn’t.

In short, the advice the guide gives women is to change their clothing, manner of speaking, body language, and even how they socialize outside of work to avoid inappropriate advances from male colleagues. The manual makes one buried mention of just being direct in rejecting the behavior. No where in Ryan’s screencapped version does the manual mention reporting the situation to a boss or higher up or, if that fails, taking legal action against sexual harassment in the workplace. Ryan also wasn’t able to find any articles for men telling them what constitutes inappropriate behavior and how to avoid it. Jhana hasn’t responded to Ryan’s request for comment.

Sexual harassment is a serious issue. One in four women in the U.S. report having experienced it. There were over 11,000 sexual harassment charges filed against employers in 2011. Harassment, which includes unwanted advances, can have severe impacts for victims by increasing their time away from work, decreasing their productivity, resulting in job turnover, and even increasing rates of stress, depression, and other emotional and physical consequences. It also costs employers, who must deal with reduced productivity and morale and potentially legal fees.

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Readers: I am just so sick and tired of men blaming women for their inadequacies – their lack of self control - meaning the little head overruling the big head. We have seen and read the atrocities that happen in other countries and where women are blamed for rape. I have to say we are not far behind. They are trying to inch their way closet. If men could get away with rape and blame the woman here in America, believe me they would.

If you compare yourself to so many other women in this world and what they have to endure, you can consider yourselves lucky if you live in America. But that doesn’t mean that we let something like this slide here in America. Oh no – this blame the women game has got to go.

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I’ve Got An App For That

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 24th August 2013

Good morning!

Meet Lulu: An App That Lets Girls Rate Guys Anonymously

by Isabel Wilkinson Aug 22, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

How would you like to rate your ex-boyfriend as a #TrustFundBaby or a male friend who #CanTalkToMyDad? Lulu lets girls do just that, using Facebook profiles—and it’s caught on like wildfire. But is it sexist? Isabel Wilkinson reports.

Last spring, Ellie Claxton, a 19-year-old freshman at Auburn University, entered a contest. The $200 winning pot was, as she put it, “easy money,” so she thought, “Why not?”

But what she had to do was less than ordinary: she was asked to rate her male friends using a new iPhone app called Lulu. The first girl to rate 300 guys on the app won the prize money. Claxton quickly began rating her Facebook friends—guys she knew—and then broadened, reviewing guys that been selected for her at random. As part of the process, she assigned each guy hashtags pre-chosen for her by Lulu. They ranged from positive descriptors—such as “#WritesLoveSongs” and “#CanTalkToMyDad”—to the more negative: “#ManChild,” “#OwnsCrocs,” “#WanderingEye,” and “#NoGoals.”

Saying it took her “less than 30 seconds” to rate a guy, Claxton whipped through the required 300 ratings in less than a week—and took home the prize money.

Lulu, now seven months old, is rapidly gaining popularity. Using the app, girls can anonymously rate and review their male Facebook friends, as well as men they don’t know, completely anonymously. Reviews allow girls to note whether they were “together” with the guy, whether he was an ex-boyfriend, a “hookup,” a crush, or just a friend. Like an old-fashioned Cosmo quiz, the app asks girls to finish sentences about the guy they’re reviewing. “He really ought to return the call from… (a) his probation officer; (b) his dealer; (c) his boss; (d) his Ferrari dealer; or (E) Richard Branson.” Girls are directed through several pages of this until they are asked to assign the guy a series of pre-decided adjectives.

The app launched in February and now boasts 1 million users—all of whom are girls, and most of whom are between the ages of 18 and 24. Since Lulu began, it has seen 200 million profile views, and according to Appdata.com, the app now ranks 53rd out of 400 free iPhone apps in the social-networking category.

Lulu’s co-founder and CEO, Alexandra Chong, 32, says she came up with the idea for the app while having lunch with girlfriends on Valentine’s Day three years ago. “Here we were, a bunch of 20-something women. Not everyone knew each other, but it was a safe environment because it was just us girls,” she says. Her mission for Lulu, she says, is to “tap into the power of girl talk”—specifically “that moment when girls get together in a safe environment and help other girls make smarter decisions.” Chong and her co-founder, Allison Schwartz, 35, run Lulu out of New York and London.

“It’s more of a positive place than a negative place. Once guys understand it better, they see it as a secret weapon to engage and use to their advantage.”

Because of the nature of the app—and the teeny, twangy language it employs—Lulu unsurprisingly targets girls on college campuses. The creators have launched several contests similar to the one Claxton won last spring, offering money in exchange for reviews and also soliciting people to get others to download the app. The contest model, as well as appointing girls to serve as on-campus “agents,” has helped the app gain a stronghold with college users. It’s been so successful thatThe Wall Street Journal deemed it an ingenious “sorority strategy.”

Men are also starting to catch on to the fact that there now exists performance reviews of their behavior on an app—a sort of secretive, girls-only version of Consumer Reports. And apparently, some guys are liking the attention: according to the founders, half a million men have sent requests to have themselves reviewed by girls on Lulu. Talk about masochism.

“I’ve heard guys be like, ‘Will you log on and give me five stars?’” says Lucy Williams, 20, a rising junior at Bucknell, where she is one of Lulu’s on-campus “agents.” “Guys can be pissed when they have heard they haven’t gotten ratings. It’s anonymous, so guys are probably thinking, ‘I better think twice before I do certain things.’”

The app may not be welcomed by all guys, but it’s clear that Lulu arms girls with some sort of new power by word-of-mouth. (After all, there’s a constant threat of a bad review.) But it’s hard not to wonder if, in some small way, Lulu isn’t just an evolved form of sexism. Girls can anonymously call a guy a “#TrustFundBaby” or “#MamasBoy.” Couldn’t those adjectives be hurtful? Not to mention that the reviews are expressed as a review out of 10. What if someone scores a 3? Consider, for a minute, how different it would be if the roles were reversed—and if only guys used the app to rate girls. The Huffington Post said the app “Lets Women Review Men Like Restaurants,”, and one writer for The Daily argued: “Lulu pretends to empower women, but instead it allows women to defame men and conform to stereotypes in the process. Undoubtedly, Lulu is a form of cyberbullying.”

But Chong says the founders have been careful to keep Lulu from being too mean about guys. “We are taking it into consideration what we as women want to know—but we want to be cautious and mindful that it might be slightly hurtful to someone else,” she says. “It’s more of a positive place than a negative place. Once guys understand it better, they see it as a secret weapon to engage and use to their advantage.” She adds: “People who don’t understand how Lulu works may say [it’s sexist]. But we are taking real-world experience and using the technology out there today to harness that.” (Guys are able to remove themselves from Lulu.)

Next, she says, Lulu will to expand into health and beauty. Though the founders haven’t disclosed details on how they’ll adapt their pre-existing product to either space, Chong says she’s interested in continuing the idea of Lulu “as a private place where women can share.”

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Isabel Wilkinson is the editor of Fashion Beast and its chief fashion correspondent. She covers fashion, style, art, and culture. Wilkinson holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. She resides primarily in New York.

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Readers: I don’t think this is sexist. I think it is a great way for girls to support each other and communicate information about the guys they have dated. Yes, you will get some unkind statements but isn’t that the point? Girls need to know the good and the bad. Yes, you may get some untrue statements but then they are just “words” and the guy can remove himself. (As we all know women need to endure a lot more than just hurtful “words” from men.)

It seems more of a positive thing than a negative one. And in my opinion, girls can use all the help and support they can get from each other when it comes to dating men, because besides their safety (the number one thing to consider) there is a lot of other things women might want to consider, before they go out on a date.

When I think of that site that I blogged about some time ago where men were posting naked pictures of their ex-girlfriends(!) along with their full names where there address could possibly be found(!) – talk about endangering the lives and privacy of women. This is something that is not harmful in that way and in my opinion can do good for women. I love that it is women supporting women thing. Whatever we need to do to sift through the pool of men to get to the good guys is a good thing in my opinion. And if an app can do that, I say go for it.

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Love And Let Love

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 21st August 2013

Good morning!

The passage of the Homosexual Propaganda legislation in Russia is just horrific. I recently read about a horrifying new video that has hit the web this past weekend. The video which has been removed from YouTube, documented what appears to be a brutal attack on a Russian transgender woman by five men after she had allegedly been ambushed in a public park.

Although, the video is no longer available, here is the write. This is just so sick and so sad.

Graphic Video of Russian Trans Woman Being Beaten Surfaces Online

A number of news sources are reporting that a graphic video showing what appears to be a Russian transgender woman being attacked has surfaced on the Internet.

Five men allegedly ambush and brutally attack the unnamed transgender woman in a public park during broad daylight. In the video, the men knock the victim to the ground, kick and punch her repeatedly while laughing and talking to each other in Russian. They also drag her around the park causing the woman’s skirt falls off. The men then kick her in the buttocks as she crawls on all fours, trying to escape. There also appears to be a witness who stands around, taking no action against the attack.

The video is titled, “Violent attack on Trans woman by five men in Russia,” and was uploaded by YouTube user GayWaterford on Aug. 19.

“This video is of anti-LGBT activists in Russia, five men brutally beating a trans woman in broad daylight, in a public park,” the user wrote in the video’s description. “The video, posted on popular Russian social networking site VK, appeared on a page titled Straights for Equality, a group advocating for LGBT rights. The intention was to highlight the persecution of LGBT people in Russia.

“In the video, five men kick the woman in the head and body, and throw her around the park, whilst one of them films the attack. They also remove some of her clothes, and tear her underwear before she runs off,” the description reads. “The title of the video refers to the trans woman as a “homosexual”, and it also says ’view from 16 years old.’ It is unclear how old the victim in the video is, and its origin.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Source:AP Photo)

Towards the end of the video, the woman appears to escape.

The video comes shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the country’s controversial“homosexual propaganda” law on June 30.

According to America Blog, the Russian government “refused to investigate” crimes like the one allegedly depicted in the clip. But the Moscow Times recently published an article, taking notice of anti-gay crimes by groups who lure LGBT teens looking to hook up with older men. One of these groups, which has made headlines, is called the Occupy Gerontophilia, which means having a sexual preference for the elderly.

“At least one official has drawn attention to the potential harm being done by the Occupy Gerontophilia group,” the Moscow Times writes. “Federation Council Senator Konstantin Dobrynin appealed to Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin and Prosecutor General Yury Chaika over the matter earlier this month, saying a probe should be opened to determine whether the group’s leader and members could be held criminally liable for ’coercion to perform acts of a sexual nature.’ The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.”

The report goes on to say that groups like Occupy Gerontophilia use the Russian social media site Vkontakte to lure LGBT teens. The site’s officials have “been responsive to the increasing public outcry over the group’s activities, blocking its official page,” however. The article then questions why it’s taken so long for authorities to respond to these anti-gay attacks, writing that some have suggested the reaction from officials “isn’t sincere.”

“It’s pure PR,” former Pussy Riot lawyer Mark Feigin told the Moscow Times. “The fact that the perpetrators are minors makes it very difficult to prosecute them.” Feigin added that the criminal charge Dobrynin called for would likely not hold up in court.”

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Readers: Putin needs to be put out. Why can’t people live and let live? Love and Let love? Blog me.

Wishing peace and sending love….

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“Carlos Danger” Is Sexting Again

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 27th July 2013

Good morning!

Okay, I am Big “L”, little “a”…” this morning. I wanted to post something uplifting and cheerful for a Saturday but all my reading leads me to something not so pleasant. What’s a girl to do?

LeTa0: Nice to see you so active on my blog. And thanks for supporting my blog by sharing with the Huff Post readers that I don’t censor here. Although sometimes reading an uncensored blog where my readers spew hatred for people because of the color of their skin, can get to me. And then I remember, ah yes, it is just the tiny dicked white boys speaking out. No need to pay attention or respond to the white discharge. :)

Although I would love to hear what a newbie like you would say to them. Me? I’ve given my two plenty of times. I’m not in the mood this morning. The blog is open to you and to anyone else who has words to share on whatever.

Blog this BABE.

Oh…before I head out to enjoy this beautiful day, I guess I need to post something for today. How silly of me; I almost forgot.

So…speaking of little dicks and white discharge, here’s something I found. It isn’t exactly the kind of “pleasing to the senses” that I was searching for this morning but it definitely speaks to them, and made me crack-up….so what the hell, it is weekend – Perfect for a little Saturday satire.

This is super hilarious – one of the best I’ve seen. Enjoy!

John Oliver Destroys Anthony Weiner In Hilarious Daily Show Video

John Oliver continues to impress as John Stewart’s temporary replacement on The Daily Show as seen in this new hilarious video from last night in which Oliver tackles the latest Anthony Weiner sex scandal.

Anthony Weiner, AKA Carlos Danger has has now had his political aspirations soiled twice after sending naked pictures of himself to other women.

As John Oliver notes, when Weiner got busted the first time, he showed some sort of regret for his actions. In this case, however, Weiner seems more interested in letting everyone know he predicted that this would happen than anything else.

Oliver’s analysis on the Weiner scandal continues in this second video.

As The Daily Show is famous for, Oliver picks plenty of fun at Weiner’s expense, but also gives some great food for thought regarding Weiner’s continued run for mayor. Weiner promised after the first scandal that events like these would never happen again. Earlier this year, Weiner publically claimed he was a changed man. He lied, and John Oliver is not ready to let Weiner get away with the act again.

John Oliver has done an amazing job filling John Stewart’s role as head of The Daily Show. Has he impressed you as much as he’s impressed us?

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