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WCDT: 2352-2356 (31 Dec. 2012-4 Jan. 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
pwhodges:
Actually, it's made pretty clear here, and in the next one where she says she doesn't have any illegitimate children either. Any doubt expressed in the forum is just people riffing on the remark about the years before Marten's birth being a bit of a blur.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: MillionDollar Belt Sander on 03 Jan 2013, 04:57 ---I'm sure there are women out there who are more than willing to work as a true equal, I just haven't met any. :)
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I have. Many of them. And my life is richer for it.
My goddaughter was a mechanic in the army, and is now working as a gunsmith (she's also now a mother).
One of my best friends in the theatre group works for DPA in cleanup, not to mention being a registered electrician (mainly so she can work the union theatrical lighting gigs).
Not only do they exist, they are more common than you'd think. Just 'cause you've led a sheltered work life...
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: MillionDollar Belt Sander on 03 Jan 2013, 04:57 ---I'm sure there are women out there who are more than willing to work as a true equal, I just haven't met any. :)
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I have had more female bosses than male over the past 45 years, and have worked with many, many female peers on an equal footing.
DSL:
In my previous life as a newspaper guy, I worked for a total of seven boss-editors. The three best are women. They kicked ass, took names, made sure they had the names right. They never, ever, insisted they or any source be treated any differently because of internal plumbing -- more than I can say for the male boss-editors.
I've worked with and for hilariously incompetent male and female journalists, too. I remember them because (and this is an institutional quirk of the news business) they were the loud exception -- and I have to actively remind myself of former co-workers who, to put it bluntly, gave a shit and let it show in their work.
Excuse me, gotta run -- I'm supposed to be taking care of my 83-year-old mother, who literally does not know how to NOT work and is adjusting with difficulty to enforced retirement.
If you'd care to define "taking care of" as "trying and hilariously failing to keep up with," you can posit that I'm doing OK at it.
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 03 Jan 2013, 07:58 ---I have. Many of them. And my life is richer for it. .....
...... Not only do they exist, they are more common than you'd think. Just 'cause you've led a sheltered work life...
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Even your rebuttal's opening and closing statement points out that such people are still not in the majority
Up until recently I also had a sheltered work environment where everyone was capable, and also willing to lend a hand if an issue cropped up.
[ small high tech / pharma start-ups ]
Now I am in the Real World [tm] (service industry) and am constantly amazed and appalled at the general populace.
It's not so much a gender thing, except in how individuals go about it [girls do it one way, guys another] but people are more often then not stupid or lazy if not both [a dangerous combination].
The world, she is crazy :psyduck:
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Bah - I'm posting this anyways even though they are much better than mine :roll:
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