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[Arbor Goldson]

nasrudin and 99 others, on 12 December 2012 - 03:22 PM, said:

These are American football terms?

I prefer to think of it as "grabbing the low-hanging fruit."

[Lord of Oop North]

Urination in the corners of your enemies' cubicles.

[Lord of Oop North]

The propagation of the patriarchy by demanding a heavy dowry for the acquisition of staplers.

[Thlayli]

The office pool to see who could impregnate the intern first.

[Lord of Oop North]

Reaping the mammals that have gathered round the water cooler, both to assert the continued dominance of the hierarchy, and to cull the under performing employees from the herd.

[straits]

Lord of Oop North, on 12 December 2012 - 03:35 PM, said:

Urination in the corners of your enemies' cubicles.

Lord of Oop North, on 12 December 2012 - 03:51 PM, said:

The propagation of the patriarchy by demanding a heavy dowry for the acquisition of staplers.

Thlayli, on 12 December 2012 - 03:51 PM, said:

The office pool to see who could impregnate the intern first.

Lord of Oop North, on 12 December 2012 - 03:53 PM, said:

Reaping the mammals that have gathered round the water cooler, both to assert the continued dominance of the hierarchy, and to cull the under performing employees from the herd.

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[Where Boars Glow]

Sophelia, on 12 December 2012 - 01:57 PM, said:

I heard somebody I respect say that his workplace was sexist because traditional male values are frowned upon.

Could anybody help me out by translating that for me?  Either by suggesting what these 'male values' might be, or if you or someone you knew said something like this, what they might typically be objecting to?

Sounds like they are secretly mad at themselves for their innability to evolve and adjust in the modern work enviroment.

[Ravenhair]

Sophelia, on 12 December 2012 - 01:57 PM, said:

I heard somebody I respect say that his workplace was sexist because traditional male values are frowned upon.

Could anybody help me out by translating that for me?  Either by suggesting what these 'male values' might be, or if you or someone you knew said something like this, what they might typically be objecting to?

Sopheila, the person who made that comment was most likely referring to opinions like these:  

http://www.thefiscal...lace.aspx#page2

I've sat through enough freaking conferences to recite this crap in my sleep--women are team-oriented; men are more likely to befriend superiors, blah, blah, blah.  As you can probably discern, I am just not certain the differences cited still exist.

[Eloisa]

Intelligent and talented female friend tweeted earlier:

"Being made to feel like a zoo exhibit with cotton wool for brains by a room full of men. Just another fun day at the office."

I guess that's a traditional male value in action...

[Addien]

Being programmed by the evo-psych imperative to hunt, fish, pillage, and bone.

It's biology!!11!

[Jaxom 1974]

The three martini lunch and how its just not accepted like it used to be...

[sologdin]

likely a few obnoxious camille paglia quotations should zip this thread up nicely:

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Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.

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Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives

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Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.

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The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny

[Balefont]

Jaxom 1974, on 12 December 2012 - 04:53 PM, said:

The three martini lunch and how its just not accepted like it used to be...

See, as long as I, a female, could also take advantage of this, it is one tradition that should remain on the books. < firm noad >

[Sci-2]

Camille Paglia reminds me of something my sister once jokingly said:

"Sometimes I feel like gay men have done more for the women's movement than women themselves, because there are always women who shoot the whole team in the foot."

[Arbor Goldson]

Brady, I knew I could count on you to like my nut joke.

[Brady]

Nuturally.

[Xray the Enforcer]

Brady, on 12 December 2012 - 06:42 PM, said:

Nuturally.

Better than neuterally, which is what those damned harpy feminists have done to Soph's bitter friend.

[Baitac]

"Traditional male values" reminds me of "traditional feminine values" which equals Sansa, which equals throw up.

[Soylent Brown]

Perhaps they're enforcing a strict sit-to-pee policy, and he feels constrained; not being able to aim for the sky.

[Noontidal]

Perhaps it's when they order food.  A man knows what he wants for lunch before even being presented with a menu.  15 seconds of searching for a compatible dish is all he needs.  Excepting when he is ordering in an unfamiliar language.  Then he scans the menu thoughtfully, orders something, and when they bring out an eggplant and ostrich salad, he grins confidently as if that was exactly what he wanted and devours it without complaint.