Question for my male followers who've read the Uber blogpsot— The leather jacket story in the blogpost seems to really stand out to men.
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thread is good. I find it strange when men fixate on the leather jacket thing, but there *is* one thing about it that bugs me.
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There's just no fucking way the men at Uber didn't notice the leather jacket thing.
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And they didn't say anything?

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I was wondering if the jacket order ended up happening; the post doesn't say one way or the other.
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100% agreed if it did that every man who got one is complicit.
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All the other blatant shit aside, it really showed how specifically PETTY HR/Management was when it came to their female staff.
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Uber isn't exactly hurting for money (if so, shouldn't have bothered w/ the jackets to begin w/) yet because they couldn't bulk-
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-order the damned jackets for the few remaining female staff... it wasn't even about productivity. It was shear PETTINESS of it.
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1/2 The leather jacket story stood out? The propositioning did not?!? WTaF? As for the jackets, the discount line was complete..
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..bullshit because a company who spends like UBER sure the fuck can afford 6 non-discounted jackets. That's worth 4U of servers.
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besides the cost, there's also the blatant public sexist display assuming none of the 100 men would object...
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...but HR telling her "We can't stop him retaliating against you at review time" stood out much more to me...
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...not that it should be a surprise, given the entire company is based on the premise that laws don't apply to them.
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well, actually, it did not stand out to me. The dozens of 150% crazy town HR interactions did though.
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my hypothesis is male employees can better imagine that happening to them than the sexual advances
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maybe dudes can’t/won’t imagine being the woman, the harasser, or the company/HR reps, but they can imagine getting that jacket
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I have a theory — it made all of the men complicit. Putting yourself in that subject position is easy & uncomfortable to imagine
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it reminds me of my first intro to "male privilege" in uni. It was a social science methods course and we read this article:
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"Couples Watching Television: Gender, Power, & the Remote Control" Journal of Marriage & the Family 1996 http://web.comhem.se/u68426711/24/Alexis1996CouplesWatchingTelevision-GenderPowerRemoteControl.pdf …
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it blew my mind to realize how we "do gender" in the most basic interactions.
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I was 20. It was embarrassing it took me that long.
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same here. Even in a seemingly mundane team building activity they manage to fuck it up/demonstrate total disregard for women
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in some ways it demonstrates the utter disregard for ensuring parity even more so than the obvious sexual harassment.
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and now I will leave your @'s.
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