• Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    You’re spot on, but it’s not “the people” it’s just the incels on 4Chan. Same with “thots”. No one says that in real life, it just internet brainrot.

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        2 months ago

        ah yes the perfect phrase to make all women colleagues feel welcome and professionally appreciated in the workplace

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          To be fair, we had zero women colleagues, and he was saying it referring to other men (basically, I need to get work done). Knowing that individual, he would’ve stopped if we had a female join our org.

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            2 months ago

            normalising words is still problematic - you never know who around will take it as “oh it’s okay to say then”