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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2016-10-18

The rest of that FB post I quoted from on Thursday:

"[...] In my 20's, though, I was working in places here and there where verbal sexual abuse wasn't an uncommon thing. I inadvertently hit on a sentence, almost an incantation, that sharply reduced the number of such conversations I was exposed to. And if more men used it, it might reduce the number of such conversations in the absolute.

"The sentence?

"'That's fucking creepy and I don't want to hear it.'

"There were a few times I had to say it three or four times in 45 seconds.

"I haven't had to say it in a long time.

"It's all about perceived support. The creeps read silence as agreement. As long as we say nothing, they continue. It's our obligation as men to deprive them of that perceived support. To show them that all men don't have these conversations. [...]"

-- Chris Clarke, 2016-10-08
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posted by [personal profile] corylea at 05:50pm on 2016-10-18
That reminds me of the time when I was working in a restaurant, and when things were slow, the bartender would tell jokes to the waitresses. Most of these jokes were racist, and since I thought it was important that white people tell other white people that racism is not acceptable, every time the bartender told a racist joke, I said, "That is NOT funny!"

What happened? The bartender told those jokes only when I wasn't around, and the other waitresses saw me as a killjoy.

*sigh*

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