Is anybody else righteously offended by sexist email forwards that circulate through the office in the form of “jokes”?<\/p>\n
*Twice* now, I’ve gotten into actual FIGHTS with friends of mine over this sort of thing. This time, the email was a bunch of photos that suggested that women are: stupid, lazy, shallow, and ignorant. And it was being sent TO women, BY a woman!<\/p>\n
I consider ignoring this sort of thing on par with walking past a woman being smacked down by her boyfriend, except with wider-ranging effect. The results are similar, too. Nobody involved appreciates my interference, but I feel like crap if I don’t speak up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Is anybody else righteously offended by sexist email forwards that circulate through the office in the form of “jokes”? *Twice* now, I’ve gotten into actual FIGHTS with friends of mine over this sort of thing. This time, the email was a bunch of photos that suggested that women are: stupid, lazy, shallow, and ignorant. And […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}