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So on my last day at my old job I had an experience that, while not as extreme, was just as eye opening as that time I saw, firsthand, how vicious some men can be when "street hollering".
Yesterday, I was putting some stuff up on the sales floor, and one of my female coworkers walks by me, and I make a comment about how she seems kind of pissed off. She turns to me and launches into a little mini-rant about how her manager keeps gawking at and commenting on all the cute girls that walk in to the store. To which I reply, "Just do the same shit around him, every time you see a cute guy just say, 'Damn look at his ass, I wonder how big his dick is'." Because as we all know, that'll make dude super uncomfortable.
Even though that was "resolved" it did make me wonder about these type of dynamics. In the department I worked in it was nothing but hetero men so those type of comments were regular. We bond over women's butts and Game of Thrones. The ogling was never really all that big for me, because I wasn't really checking for the white chicks that frequent the store, though I do flirt with the black girls that shop there whenever I can. So even then I wasn't so much opposed to it, as much as I just wasn't seeing my type, so I'm just as guilty of creating a certain sexist climate in the store. Now that I'm leaving a girl is taking my position, but I'm pretty sure she's a lesbian so she might fit right in, who knows.
So I need to ask the women here, you all do talk about cute guys you see, correct? But have you ever worked at a place where that became a little sub-culture of the job? And if so do you think it ever grew to be something that made your male coworkers uncomfortable? If I'm being honest I've only had a woman make a comment about me one time that made me feel kinda weird, other than that, yeah, leer away, and for all of the hetero man's fear of gay men, despite the upper management being almost all gay, they never once made me feel uncomfortable. So is this really just a problem that only straight men create? Or is it just one that we do in greater numbers?
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