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Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

Everyone's favorite op ed writer has a hot take on the Google memo guy.

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It was very male-centric. I heard about client outings, involving strippers, to which I was obviously not invited. And the sexual harassment (entirely from clients, not colleagues), could be spectacular.

Which has nothing to do with why I left. This will make me sound a bit dim, but at the time, it never occurred to me that being a female in this bro ecosystem might impinge my ultimate career prospects. Nor did I miss having women in the room. I liked working with the bros just fine. And the sexual harassment, while annoying, was just that: annoying. I cannot recall that it ever affected my work, nor that I lost any sleep over it.

No, the reason I left is that I came into work one Monday morning and joined the guys at our work table, and one of them said �What did you do this weekend?�

I was in the throes of a brief, doomed romance. I had attended a concert that Saturday night. I answered the question with an account of both. The guys stared blankly. Then silence. Then one of them said: �I built a fiber-channel network in my basement,� and our co-workers fell all over themselves asking him to describe every step in loving detail.

At that moment I realized that fundamentally, these are not my people. I liked the work. But I was never going to like it enough to blow a weekend doing more of it for free. Which meant that I was never going to be as good at that job as the guys around me.

So I went to business school, and eventually I landed myself in the kind of career that I was happy to do on weekends, and nights, and most of my other time -- a career that I did, in fact, do for free for five years before anyone offered to pay me for it. My field, policy journalism, is also predominantly male. But it�s less male, and it suits me better.

The bolded parts are just *chef kissing fingers*

Hulk Krogan fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Aug 11, 2017

# ¿ Aug 11, 2017 15:38

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 09:25

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

Oh it's not the Brooks column - it's McArdle. Turns out there is no end to the number of ways terrible right wing pundits can repackage the same lovely take.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2017 15:57

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

I like that it's written like a House of Cards monologue.

quote:

We come now to a moment of great gravity.

quote:

Two, houses built on sand and made of cards are bound to collapse, and there can be no surprise that the one resting atop the �hack theory,� as we can call the prevailing wisdom on the DNC events, appears to be in the process of doing so.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2017 17:56

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

papa horny michael posted:

Why are you certain leftists wouldn't rally for those things? Most of the hardcore politically active leftists I know from rallies and organizing ARE trans. It's mostly the lib dem thing to accuse socialists of not being for identity issues, when we ARE at the forefront for activism on specifically those issues.

Yeah there's definitely historical justification for skepticism about promises of universal programs - many New Deal programs we're racially exclusionary - butp I'm convinced a lot of the "socialists say they want single payer but they'll sell out reproductive rights to get it" type stuff you hear from shitlibs is pure projection.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2017 20:46

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

landgrabber posted:

i should clarify that i'm only talking about trans issues here. leftists seem to have a really good grasp on pretty much everything else but it's hard to explain to someone that isn't trans what, say, hormone therapy actually means and why it's essential. i mean poo poo, 50% of trans people that received medical care had to explain what that type of care actually was to their providers. insane.

it's gonna be hard to implement that at a governmental level, and i just don't see anyone outside of a gsm minority caring that hard.

Yeah that's fair. Like I said, there's definitely historical precedent for good social programs getting passed by jettisoning minority groups so it's a valid fear.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2017 21:47

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

achillesforever6 posted:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYQvpQ0HpOa/

lmao this is magnificent.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2017 19:38

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

Javes posted:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/903283877267083264

Matt is being bullied at work.

https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/903285154801741824

lmao

# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 16:57

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

Henchman of Santa posted:

https://twitter.com/crushingbort/status/905282210122563584

oh my god

# ¿ Sep 6, 2017 06:18

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

Halloween Jack posted:

The clip they played on the show sounds like a new theme song for Sailor Moon.

The Daou is over 9,000!!

(yes I know that's a different cartoon. Shut up.)

# ¿ Sep 6, 2017 18:07

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

Yeah as a native New Yorker I have to call bullshit on that with extreme prejudice. It's like a geas that's placed on us at birth.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2017 14:57

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

X-Ray Pecs posted:

Hillary comparing herself to Cersei is cool because I haven't seen Game of Thrones

Cersei has a (justified) huge chip on her shoulder about all the misogyny she's overcome to attain power but is an insanely arrogant and petty person who surrounds herself with sycophants and holds grudges to a disastrously counterproductive degree.

So yeah it's pretty perfect.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2017 15:05

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

CaptainJuan posted:

Chapo healthcare correspondent Tim Faust (@crulge) has a new healthcare policy/heavy metal podcast!

https://twitter.com/heavyxmedical/status/907998768544579584

This is extremely relevant to my interests.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2017 15:09

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

The best political impression of the year is being performed on a cult-favorite leftist podcast

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Gorka did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment on whether he'd seen the impression.

*chef kissing fingers*

# ¿ Sep 18, 2017 00:32

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

Pedro De Heredia posted:

Read the reddit threads .

I thinks I found the problem.

I dunno the initial response on Twitter seemed like it was mostly leftist women being like "guys this is hosed up" which doesn't seem all that out of line. :shrug:

# ¿ Oct 13, 2017 13:28

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

*sees an internet full of popular videos titled like "Watch Ben Shapiro DESTROY this liberal with logic" where the supposedly devastating own is Shapiro's opponent saying "um" before responding or some dumb poo poo*

Yes I think a good faith debate could win many converts.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2018 23:59

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

Tim Burns Effect posted:

someone post that pic amber tweeted of matt and a baby wearing the same outfit

edit: nvm found it

The kid is actually better dressed on account of the red snocks and not-crocs

# ¿ Mar 26, 2018 03:21

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

CountFosco posted:

Slatestarcodex literally wrote the anti-reactionary FAQ (http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-faq/). But because he associates with some individuals, we have a situation where he is mistaken for a reactionary simply by chains of association. He has "neoreactionary cooties." Part of the reason he does such a good job repudiating the neoreactionaries is because on some level he is sympathetic to the underlying drive beneath the craziness: a simmering revolt against the elevation of quantification over qualia. It's because of this sort of thing that I feel like I no longer recognize the left, if the left is indeed a reflection of what I see on these message boards. "Definitely not clicking." Congratulations on shielding yourself from wrongthink friend!

Is the rationalwiki progressive enough for you folks to consider it safe to read? Because they do a good job of demonstrating that ideologically he's as far from the alt-right as he is from the radical left. Or do you guys consider the rationalwiki an unclean source? Is Slavoj Zizek still considered permissible to be a fan of, given his objections to political correctness? Because both he and SSC share a persistent fascination with GK Chesterton. Is it ok to admire and draw influence from Chesterton? Or is he yet another "a stupid person's idea of a smart person." Is Slavoj Zizek alt-right now, given his penchant for nasty sex jokes? Listen carefully to Zizek in his lectures, and you find a recurrent theme: a falling back on the idea that there is no coherent progressive anti-capitalist societal plan, and that the best which can be managed currently is managed capitalism, capitalism as directed by former Communist polities.

When Trump was elected, I had the sense that, at long last, I would know what it would be like to live under a Roman Emperor. But as the left becomes increasingly cannibalistic, I get the sense that we're entering an age more similar to the French Revolution, where each ascendent further left power gave way to political factions yet more extreme.

As for why I listened to chapotraphouse, it's because I consciously make an effort to get information and perspectives from outside of whatever echo chamber I may be unconsciously building for myself through my media consumption. As someone who has been sympathetic to leftist sensibilities in the past, I was genuinely curious; I left unimpressed.

Peterson has his flaws. There are lots of important points I disagree with him on. But the collective character assassination that he is currently being subjected to makes them easy to overlook in favor of his positive points. As for Nathan Robinson, ugh. There are things that the more bellicose aspect of my personality would like to express but I'll restrain myself because I want to work towards civility across political lines.

Why do they all sound like this.

# ¿ May 21, 2018 17:55

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 09:25

Hulk Krogan: Mar 25, 2005

RIP Matt

https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/1045306638180253697?s=19

lmao

# ¿ Sep 30, 2018 01:58

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