I have been reading here for years. I have worked with more of you than I can count. So I know you aren't all stupid, vulgar, or insensitive. You must know that when you are at a professional conference, you are expected to behave as though you are at work, not at a backyard barbecue or strip club. You must have learned by now, since you are on the web, that women who speak up generally receive threats of death/violence/sexual assault that have to be taken at least somewhat seriously. You also have to know that there are men in the next cubicle who do mean it when they make sexual jokes or innuendo and want all women either sexually submissive in the workplace or gone. You don't wear safe/not safe identifiers, so get used to being polite adults.
It is up to the men in this industry to fix this. Women cannot change men's behavior by dressing differently, pulling our forelocks in submission, or whatever today's blame the survivor theory may be. The ball is in your court. Do something.
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I have been reading here for years. I have worked with more of you than I can count. So I know you aren't all stupid, vulgar, or insensitive. You must know that when you are at a professional conference, you are expected to behave as though you are at work, not at a backyard barbecue or strip club. You must have learned by now, since you are on the web, that women who speak up generally receive threats of death/violence/sexual assault that have to be taken at least somewhat seriously. You also have to know that there are men in the next cubicle who do mean it when they make sexual jokes or innuendo and want all women either sexually submissive in the workplace or gone. You don't wear safe/not safe identifiers, so get used to being polite adults. It is up to the men in this industry to fix this. Women cannot change men's behavior by dressing differently, pulling our forelocks in submission, or whatever today's blame the survivor theory may be. The ball is in your court. Do something.