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Starks dunked on Bulls
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"I often disagreed with feminists, but I wonder if my beliefs are wrong"
Thu Mar-26-15 11:05 AM by Starks dunked on Bul

  

          

I was shopping at Zabars at the Upper West Side and I realized I had to stop at the Post Office. So I vamoosed to the nearest Post Office 5 blocks away.

On my way I saw this bag at Burberry:
http://us.burberry.com/small-canvas-check-backpack-p39459501?search=true

Should I cop?

Anyway, back to the story . . .


So at the Post Office, there was this blonde white girl who wanted to mail a key in a flimsy little envelope. Big black man warned her that it was a bad idea. The girl asked if she's allowed to do so and he said yes, so she confirmed that's what she wanted to do. Black man asked her again if that's what she wanted to do and she said she'll take her chances. While the black man was sorting out the details for 10 minutes, he questioned/warned her about doing so about 5-7 more times and that's when she snapped by saying "Can you just do this???" And he replied by saying "I just don't think it's a good idea." And she replied "Well I didn't ask you what you thought. It's not a life or death matter." And black dude begrudgingly followed her request.

It got me to thinking, if I was the person making the request I don't think he would've questioned me like that. He would've asked a second time but that's it. Men respect a man's final say and they let them deal with the consequences. He wants to run the ball on 4th and 4, ok fine, that's his call. I think the fact that the male worker was trying to help the female precluded him from allowing her to make a decision.

What do you think? Is this sexism?

  

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I often disagreed with feminists, but I wonder if my beliefs are wrong [View all] , Starks dunked on Bulls, Thu Mar-26-15 11:05 AM
 
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men definitely tend to question women more
Mar 26th 2015
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why is she an idiot?
Mar 26th 2015
8
      that's exactly why.
Mar 26th 2015
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           yup..
Mar 26th 2015
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           same.
Mar 26th 2015
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           Interesting. Dude was like "I've been working over ___years and
Mar 26th 2015
34
                sounds like it could be the white girl doubting all these ppl
Mar 26th 2015
48
Had to return my old Android Moto X to VZW for a $100 credit...
Mar 26th 2015
2
I think several things come in to play in these situations
Mar 26th 2015
3
Keys get lost easily in mail processing equipment.
Mar 26th 2015
4
nice looking bag, just a bit small-ish
Mar 26th 2015
5
nice looking bag, just a bit expensive-ish
Mar 26th 2015
9
      perhaps, I have no idea what the OP is holding.
Mar 26th 2015
15
           no doubt, it's his money
Mar 26th 2015
21
This example reinforces the belief that chivalry is linked to chauvinism
Mar 26th 2015
6
^^^^^^
Mar 26th 2015
7
stole my reply
Mar 26th 2015
10
its kind of assumed here that he wouldn't be that way with a dude tho.
Mar 26th 2015
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you are right
Mar 26th 2015
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      oh i still call them foes but postal workers tend to be
Mar 26th 2015
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           alright i feel you
Mar 26th 2015
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                gotcha.
Mar 26th 2015
31
at this point, I thought that point was pretty much inarguable.
Mar 26th 2015
36
How do you all feel about men softening their voices, i.e. Obama + Cary?
Mar 26th 2015
11
Was it racist she wouldn't listen to the black man though?
Mar 26th 2015
12
^^^^ If a white man had told her, would she have listened?
Mar 26th 2015
13
This is a really good question too. I think there's space to contemplate
Mar 26th 2015
18
that's another angle i considered.
Mar 26th 2015
19
      lmao
Mar 27th 2015
55
We also frequently encounter this type of skepticism in the workplace.
Mar 26th 2015
14
Ummm, I am black so yeah I don't need to imagine...
Mar 26th 2015
22
^^^^^
Mar 26th 2015
24
I hear you, but what I'm talking about happens intra-racially as well.
Mar 26th 2015
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      yep
Mar 26th 2015
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      Maaaan! LMAO....you stay on attack mode!
Mar 26th 2015
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           Why you feeling affronted?
Mar 26th 2015
51
           don't feed the antagonists dog
Mar 26th 2015
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           or not say stupid shit
Mar 26th 2015
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           Lol right. The level of hurt there :(
Mar 27th 2015
58
                Or yall pick and choose
Mar 27th 2015
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      yes. yes it does.
Mar 26th 2015
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maybe 'cause I've worked in engineering with an entirely female
Mar 26th 2015
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      thats dope.
Mar 26th 2015
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      That's dope. I mean I don't want to be completely myopic lol.. I realize...
Mar 26th 2015
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      I think in IT everyone has to show and prove initially
Mar 26th 2015
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           Oh, absolutely. But when a subgroup of employees of the same job title
Mar 26th 2015
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                RE: Oh, absolutely. But when a subgroup of employees of the same job tit...
Mar 26th 2015
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                     Ok well, one only needs to google: women,workplace,discrimination,STEM
Mar 27th 2015
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      when i worked in IT in a former life
Mar 26th 2015
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           Now that's great to hear
Mar 26th 2015
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1-2 warnings is enough. Had it been just 1-2 warnings it would of
Mar 26th 2015
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true, but i bet he has dealt with tons of lost keys
Mar 26th 2015
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you're probably wrong, I've worked in female dominated
Mar 26th 2015
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^^ Friend of mine worked in child care while completing his Ed.D and
Mar 26th 2015
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y'all know she might not have been sending a key
Mar 26th 2015
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i'd be more concerned with it getting lost
Mar 26th 2015
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Word it's definitely real.
Mar 27th 2015
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it's against postal regulations to send a key in envelope like that.
Mar 26th 2015
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http://i.imgur.com/IW8simF.gif
Mar 26th 2015
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