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   timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 03:43:00 JST timberwraith

   One summer in 1989, I worked as a junior drafts-person** in an engineering department.

   It was a vast room full of white cishet guys, mostly.

   I really, really, REALLY did not want these guys trying to "bond" with me, thinking I was a part of their pale penis decoder ring of misogyny fan club.

   I did one simple thing. I didn't cuss. Ever. I also avoided responding to any off color sexual joke beyond a blinking empty look of disengaged innocence.

   It worked. They stayed the hell away from me.

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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 03:43:00 JST timberwraith

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     My supervisor/trainer asked me one day if I was super religious. I was like, "No. Not at all."

     He looked confused and said, "Oh, I assumed that because you never curse."

     I was laughing in my head. No you dipshit, I'm trying to deliberately alienate you in passive ways and I see it's working, LOL.

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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 03:57:43 JST timberwraith

     • Bill

     @bmacDonald94 Aw, thanks!