The Blame Game In The Workplace

Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 26th, 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

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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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It’s Not About Chicken

Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 25th, 2013

Good morning!

This would be funny if it were not true. Some people are just so ignorant, and racist – as we know, politicians are no exception. A write from Think Progress:

Colorado Legislator: Poverty Higher Among ‘Black Race’ Because They Eat Too Much Chicken

BY JOSH ISRAEL ON AUGUST 22, 2013 AT 9:04 AM

Colorado State Sen. Vicki Marble (R)

In a meeting of the state’s Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force Wednesday, Colorado State Sen. Vicki Marble (R) delivered a long monologue suggesting that the reason for poverty among certain minority groups was that they eat too much chicken and barbecue.

Discussing statistics about racial disparities in the poverty rate, KVDR Denver reports, Marble claimed that the studies ignored drug addiction and poor diets common among Latino- and African-American families.

MARBLE: When you look at life expectancy, there are problems in the black race: sickle-cell anemia is something that comes up, diabetes is something that’s prevalent in the genetic makeup and you just can’t help it… Although I’ve got to say, I’ve never had better barbecue and better chicken and ate better in my life than when you go down south and you — I mean love it and everybody loves it. The Mexican diet in Mexico with all of the fresh vegetables. And you go down there and they’re much thinner than when they come up here… they change their diet.

Listen to the hearing here.

A July study by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization found that obesity rates are actually higher in Mexico than in the United States.

Another task force member, Rep. Rhonda Fields (D) responded, saying, “The title for this committee is Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction; and one of the things I will not tolerate is racist and insensitive comments about African Americans, the color of their skin. What you mentioned that we eat — I was highly offended by your remarks.” She added that she would not “engage in a dialogue where I’m in the company, where you are using these stereotyped references about African American and chicken and food… this is not what this committee is all about… it’s not about chicken.”

The chairman then adjourned the meeting so the task force’s members could “all take a deep breath.”

In a statement Wednesday night, Marble said, “My comments were not meant to be disparaging to any community… I am saddened they were taken in that regard. I take my responsibility seriously and I hope our work on this committee will offer real solutions to the health and financial challenges of our vulnerable populations.”

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Readers: You’ve got to listen to the tape recording. How this woman got elected to be a Senator of the United States, I’ll never know. Vickie “Marble” - how apropos.

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I’ve Got An App For That

Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 24th, 2013

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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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Flap Your Lips Friday

Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 23rd, 2013

Good morning!

Carlos: I read about it too. Here’s what I found:

Antoinette Tuff: Meet The Bookkeeper Who Stopped Ga. School Shooter

Antoinette Tuff

DECATUR, Ga. — Rufus Morrow was at work when he got a phone call with the worst news he could imagine: Shots fired at his daughter’s elementary school.

He drove “about 90 mph” to Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy where 800 or so students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade had been evacuated Tuesday in an Atlanta suburb. The police chief says a 20-year-old man with an assault rifle and other weapons was able to slip into the school where visitors must be buzzed in by staff.

The suspect, identified as Michael Brandon Hill, held one or two staff members in the front office captive for a time, the police chief said, making one of them call a local TV station. As officers swarmed the campus outside, he shot at them at least a half a dozen times with an assault rifle from inside the school and they returned fire, said DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric L. Alexander. Hill then surrendered. No one was injured.

Morrow said he almost cried as he told his supervisor why he needed to leave.

“Just the mere thought of what happened at that other elementary school happening here, it was just devastating to my soul,” he said, referring to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut in December that left 26 people dead, 20 of them children.

Watch Antoinette Tuff discuss school shooting:

He wasn’t the only one whose thoughts went to that shooting that has dominated arguments over gun control in the U.S.

“I thought it wasn’t going to be all right,” said his 10-year-old daughter, Dyamond, a fifth-grader. “I thought he was going to come into the building and hurt everybody like what happened at the other school.”

Hill is charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, terroristic threats and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Police questioned him for hours at headquarters. There was no information on a possible court date. Alexander said police were unsure of Hill’s motive and that Hill, who had an address listed in court records about three miles from the school in Decatur, had no clear ties to the school.

A woman answering the phone at a number listed for Hill said she was his mother but that it wasn’t a good time and rushed off the phone.

Other parents also feared the worst for their children.

“I was terrified,” said Romaine Hudson as she clung to the hands of her 6-year-old and 8-year-old daughters, both of whom are students at the school. “The only thing I could think of when I first heard of this situation was Sandy Hook.”

Authorities believe Hill must have walked in behind someone authorized to be there, Alexander said. He never got past the front office, where he held one or two employees captive for a time. School bookkeeper Antoinette Tuff says she was one of the hostages.

In an interview on ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer,” Tuff said she worked to convince the gunman to put down his weapons and ammunition.

“He told me he was sorry for what he was doing. He was willing to die,” Tuff told ABC.

Speaking Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Tuff said the suspect told her he hadn’t taken his medication.

She told him her life story, about how her marriage fell apart after 33 years and the “roller coaster” of opening her own business.

“I told him, `OK, we all have situations in our lives,” she said. “It was going to be OK. If I could recover, he could, too.”

Then Tuff said she asked the suspect to put his weapons down, empty his pockets and backpack on the floor.

“I told the police he was giving himself up. I just talked him through it,” she said.

She told WSB-TV in Atlanta that she tried to keep Hill talking to prevent him from walking into the hallway or through the school building.

“He had a look on him that he was willing to kill – matter of fact he said it. He said that he didn’t have any reason to live and that he knew he was going to die today,” Tuff said, adding that Hill told her he was sure he’d be killed because he’d shot at police officers. “I knew that if he got out that door he was gonna kill everybody,” she said.

Dramatic television footage showed lines of young students racing out of the building with police and teachers escorting them to safety. They sat outside in a field for a time until school buses came to take them to their waiting parents and other relatives at a nearby Wal-Mart. As each bus arrived a couple hours later, cheers erupted in the store parking lot.

Morrow was one of those parents and held his 10-year-old daughter close to him during an interview after the two were reunited.

“My stomach was in my throat for the whole time until I saw her face on the bus,” he said.

His daughter, a fifth-grader, told The Associated Press that a voice came over the intercom saying school was under lockdown and instructed students to get under tables. She said her teacher told the class to sing and pray.

“There were a lot of girls crying, I was feeling scared but I didn’t cry. I was just nervous,” she said.

Tuff called WSB-TV as it was happening to say the gunman asked her to contact the Atlanta station and police. WSB said during the call, shots were heard in the background. Assignment editor Lacey Lecroy said she spoke with Tuff, who said she was alone with the man and his gun was visible.

“It didn’t take long to know that this woman was serious,” Lecroy said. “Shots were one of the last things I heard. I was so worried for her.”

Complicating the rescue, bomb-sniffing dogs alerted officers to something in the suspect’s trunk and investigators believe the man may have been carrying explosives, Alexander said. Officials cut a hole in a fence to make sure students running from the building could get even farther away to a nearby street, he said.

The school has about 870 children enrolled. The academy is named after McNair, an astronaut who died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, according to the school’s website.

As they waited for their children, many of the parents said they were surprised that anyone could get into the school. Many of them recounted having to ring a buzzer at a door with a camera to get in to drop off or pick up their children.

Students at the school arrived Wednesday morning at nearby McNair High School, where they would attend classes for the time being. The high school’s marquee said “Welcome McNair Elementary School Our Prayers Are With You.”

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Readers: That is one brave woman. This isn’t the first time that I have heard of a woman talking a man out of being violent. Just recently I heard a similar story, (children and a school were not involved) where a woman was held by gunpoint outside of a grocery store and talked to the gunman about her children, family and her difficult times. He too was talked out of it. Kudos to women for our soft approach that is obviously so helpful in these kind of situations too. Yes we can stop violence with compassion and kindness.

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A Big Week For Health Care

Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 22nd, 2013

Good morning!

Sometimes staying up with all the news even if the news is good news, can be daunting. There are so many lies that we constantly have to sift through to get to what is real and factual. And at the same time we need to remember and stay on top of what we know to be true and not let the lies get tossed, thrown and tangled in the truth to try and confuse us. I don’t know about you but hearing the lies and clearing them out can be exhausting.

As sick as I am of the LSOS’s and their lies, I’m not confused about many things when it comes to what is right and best for all in our country, even when the right-wing LSOS’s try their very best to convince us otherwise.

Obamacare – ACA -The Affordable Care Act is a good thing. Here’s the latest of the lies, and those that oppose actions, that we have to sift through to get to the gems.

Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare

BY JOSH DORNER ON AUGUST 21, 2013 AT 5:57 PM

A Big Week for Health Care

In less than 6 weeks, millions of Americans will have the chance to sign up for quality, affordable health coverage for the very first time. Progressives are doing everything possible to educate Americans about the law and push back on the never-ending conservative misinformation campaign against Obamacare. Conservatives are, well, trying anything and everything in order to try and derail the law at the very last minute.

(Things are not going very well for conservatives.)

Here’s a roundup of the very latest Obamacare news:

Pro-Obamacare protesters confront Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at town hall: Multiple pro-Obamacare protesters confronted the Tea Party senator at the Dallas stop of Heritage Action’s tour promoting a government shutdown over Obamacare. The town hall slid further downhill from there when Cruz’s father took the stage, railed against Socialism, said “Sarah Palin was right,” and warned of the dangers of death panels. Even Republicans have called this strategy and tour “political suicide” for the GOP.Meanwhile, Texas Governor Rick Perry is quietly lobbying the Obama administration for $100 MILLION in Obamacare funding.

Tea Party group calls on Congressional staffers to “burn their Obamacare cards: FreedomWorks, a right-wing group that has helped fuel opposition to health reform and other progressive policies since the earliest days of the Obama presidency, is currently engaged in a cynical effort to dissuade young people and others of securing affordable coverage under Obamacare, which it is offensively likening to Vietnam war opponents who burned their draft cards.A GOP amendment to Obamacare requires Congressional staffers to receive their health coverage through the Obamacare marketplaces starting next year and now FreedomWorks says it hopes they forego their health coverage and instead pay a fine, though the group concedes “everyone should do whatever’s best for them and their families.” We assume most Hill staffers (including Republicans), like most Americans, will prefer the security of health coverage.

More GOP congressmen concede they will help their constituents enroll in Obamacare: While Republicans remain united in their irrational opposition to Obamacare, even some vocal conservatives are now conceding that they will help their constituents find out about their rights, responsibilities, and new benefits under the law.

Two more states announce affordable premiums: Colorado and Montana became just the latest states to announce that their residents will find affordable premiums when they go to sign up for coverage offered through the new marketplaces that will be opening on October 1. Indeed, the growth in overall health care costs has slowed remarkably since Obamacare passed, contrary to fearmongering from many of the law’s opponents.

GOP civil war escalates: Republicans are locked in an all-out civil war over whether or not to shut down the government over Obamacare (which even Republicans concede won’t actually stop the law but will harm millions of Americans and the economy).
Heritage Action is currently on a national tour to fan the shutdown flames, with former Tea Party Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), now the president of the Heritage Foundation, going so far as to tell a town hall audience that any Republicans who are afraid of shutting down the government ought to be “replaced.” To that end, his group and others are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads going after Republicans.

For the latest news, be sure and check out ThinkProgress health.

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