Joyless feminism

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Soov535

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35,829 posts

270 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3226916/Se...


Silly old sod. But what a horrible thing to retweet - humourless woman!

Rick_1138

3,656 posts

177 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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I saw this today, i get why she could construe it as a guy giving her a bit of a 'wink' through Linkedin, but its nothing more than a genuine compliment, given the usual awful pictures people have on Linkedin Profiles, he was telling her she had a nice picture, but she decided to become professionally arsey about it, with the line about eroticisation, i despair.

Guy was probably being genuine, they are both lawyers so should know better.


R6VED

1,365 posts

139 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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Oh get a grip you sour bh.

Stig

11,817 posts

283 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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She's just bitter about her surname.

Pesty

42,655 posts

255 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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It is a good picture well lit nice composition and she is an attractive lady.

Seeing how sensitive she is I'm wondering if she has done her own Career some harm by scaring off any potential employers woried about a law suit

Sonic

4,007 posts

206 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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So complimenting a woman makes you a sexist chauvinist pig now?

He didn't even post the message publicly - the recipient appears to have posted it and her response across twitter just to get a reaction and no doubt further her image as a ball-breaker.

Smollet

10,466 posts

189 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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I've yet to experience joyful feminism. They're all so fking petty minded

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

232 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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A female client told me that they thought that I was looking very well and had lost a few times since they last saw me.

Instead of thanking her and responding with a compliment of my own should i have immediately terminated my contact with this obvious sexual predator?

Never ceases to amaze me how stupid some, apparently very academically bright, people are.

Patrick Bateman

12,143 posts

173 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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That's ridiculous, how can such a qualified individual leave a space between the last word and his exclamation marks.

HewManHeMan

2,348 posts

121 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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She's right.

The symptoms of our misogynistic society may be subtle, but they are there and this is one of them. LinkedIn isn't a dating site, or even social media. She's there as a professional and trying to convey the image of such.

If you signed up to LinkedIn, and received a message from a woman saying you 'looked stunning' you'd dismiss her as being less than professional.

Forrest for the trees.

bitchstewie

50,809 posts

209 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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Rude-boy said:
A female client told me that they thought that I was looking very well and had lost a few times since they last saw me.

Instead of thanking her and responding with a compliment of my own should i have immediately terminated my contact with this obvious sexual predator?

Never ceases to amaze me how stupid some, apparently very academically bright, people are.
Clearly exactly the same as a random adding you on LinkedIn and messaging you about how nice you look.

I'm don't think it warranted the response it got, but it's a bloody daft thing to do.

Negative Creep

24,942 posts

226 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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Rude-boy said:
A female client told me that they thought that I was looking very well and had lost a few times since they last saw me.

Instead of thanking her and responding with a compliment of my own should i have immediately terminated my contact with this obvious sexual predator?

Never ceases to amaze me how stupid some, apparently very academically bright, people are.
Don't be daft, you can't be sexist towards a man

Puggit

48,355 posts

247 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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The haircut should have warned him that she is highly strung. Very silly thing to do on his part, but she has grossly over-reacted.

iphonedyou

9,234 posts

156 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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HewManHeMan said:
She's right.

The symptoms of our misogynistic society may be subtle, but they are there and this is one of them. LinkedIn isn't a dating site, or even social media. She's there as a professional and trying to convey the image of such.

If you signed up to LinkedIn, and received a message from a woman saying you 'looked stunning' you'd dismiss her as being less than professional.

Forrest for the trees.
It is social media.

And regardless, less than professional warrants neither her diatribe or it being posted publicly.

Gargamel

14,958 posts

260 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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HewManHeMan said:
She's right.

The symptoms of our misogynistic society may be subtle, but they are there and this is one of them. LinkedIn isn't a dating site, or even social media. She's there as a professional and trying to convey the image of such.

If you signed up to LinkedIn, and received a message from a woman saying you 'looked stunning' you'd dismiss her as being less than professional.

Forrest for the trees.
I might well dismiss it as less than professional, or desperate or tedious. But what I wouldn't do is tweet it, with accompanying aggressive comments and invite ridicule upon someone who at best is being a little presumptious or at worst is guilty of some old fashion sexism.

Can be confusing, since lets face it there are plenty of photo's on LI that are obviously provocative, not professional.

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

232 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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Just to add, as I don't have time to trawl the twitter feed - how many have picked up on her rampant ageism?

The way she has worded her reply seems to me to suggest that a reply such as his would have been more acceptable if it were sent to a woman closer to his age.

I find her to be confused as to her ‘isms’.

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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Pretty face, ugly personality.

Jim the Sunderer

3,238 posts

181 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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Years of expensive schooling, post-graduate studies...
and she takes a screenshot with a camera.

HewManHeMan

2,348 posts

121 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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Gargamel said:
HewManHeMan said:
She's right.

The symptoms of our misogynistic society may be subtle, but they are there and this is one of them. LinkedIn isn't a dating site, or even social media. She's there as a professional and trying to convey the image of such.

If you signed up to LinkedIn, and received a message from a woman saying you 'looked stunning' you'd dismiss her as being less than professional.

Forrest for the trees.
I might well dismiss it as less than professional, or desperate or tedious. But what I wouldn't do is tweet it, with accompanying aggressive comments and invite ridicule upon someone who at best is being a little presumptious or at worst is guilty of some old fashion sexism.

Can be confusing, since lets face it there are plenty of photo's on LI that are obviously provocative, not professional.
Militant feminism is often just as damaging as male misogyny, but you can't let that stand in the way of the fact that HE was in the wrong. Yeah she's probably a bit nuts to take it to the extreme, but women face this every day. Could be the straw that broke the camels back. Just as black people face subtler forms of racism every day, gay people suffer subtle forms of homophobia every day... It's the little things that add up to reinforce the fact that White Male's hold dominance (and very often prejudice) over absolutely everyone.

There can be sexism towards men, but it's not like we face it every day and our gender suffers because of it. We're literally in charge of absolutely everything. And it stems from the fact that subtle forms of oppression, like this, keep women (and everybody else) down.

White Male Privilege, fellas. I know I'm guilty of it, as it's likely baked into my thinking nowadays, but that doesn't mean we can't at least attempt to identify it - to ourselves - and work against it.

blindswelledrat

25,257 posts

231 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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HewManHeMan said:
She's right.

The symptoms of our misogynistic society may be subtle, but they are there and this is one of them. LinkedIn isn't a dating site, or even social media. She's there as a professional and trying to convey the image of such.

If you signed up to LinkedIn, and received a message from a woman saying you 'looked stunning' you'd dismiss her as being less than professional.

Forrest for the trees.
This is actually a valid point to an extent, despite the slating you will probably get for it.

It loses its credibility, though, if the woman in question has purposefully made herself look as nice as possible for the picture.
It is hypocritical, I think, to make yourself up, put earrings in, have your hair done - all in an attempt to make yourself as aesthetically pleasing as possible if you then brutally attacks someone who mentions it. I'm sure her reply would be that she should be perfectly entitled to make herself look nice blah blah blah, but just fk off.