• sugar_in_your_tea
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    2 months ago

    Idk, my coworker loved to say, “be gone, thot!!” I thought it was hilarious.

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      2 months ago

      ah yes the perfect phrase to make all women colleagues feel welcome and professionally appreciated in the workplace

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        2 months ago

        To be fair, we had zero women colleagues, and he was saying it referring to other men (basically, I need to get work done). Knowing that individual, he would’ve stopped if we had a female join our org.

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          normalising words is still problematic - you never know who around will take it as “oh it’s okay to say then”