A non-fandom post (I know!)

So I'm depressed that we still need an International Women's Day. Therefore, I give you Judi Dench and Daniel Craig, in the hopes that it will help.

Thank you to all my women friends, for being who you are. For being strong, creative, and independent. For raising your families. For being loving girlfriends and wives. For being awesome mothers. For being yourselves, with no reservations or apologies.

The other day some of my (white, male) coworkers complained about having to take the mandatory class on harassment in the workplace (it's roughly a one hour online course, with a 15-minute quiz at the end: a real hardship, you understand). One of them bitched that it wasn't necessary because it's not like it exists anymore, right? We live in a society where men don't harass women at all.

You should have seen the look on his face when I told him that I and several other women had been harassed at my previous job, that one girl had filed a complaint with the Régie des Normes du Travail, that the rest of us had testified, and that we had won.

Newsflash: just because you didn't see it yourself, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

A non-fandom post (I know!)

So I'm depressed that we still need an International Women's Day. Therefore, I give you Judi Dench and Daniel Craig, in the hopes that it will help.

Thank you to all my women friends, for being who you are. For being strong, creative, and independent. For raising your families. For being loving girlfriends and wives. For being awesome mothers. For being yourselves, with no reservations or apologies.

The other day some of my (white, male) coworkers complained about having to take the mandatory class on harassment in the workplace (it's roughly a one hour online course, with a 15-minute quiz at the end: a real hardship, you understand). One of them bitched that it wasn't necessary because it's not like it exists anymore, right? We live in a society where men don't harass women at all.

You should have seen the look on his face when I told him that I and several other women had been harassed at my previous job, that one girl had filed a complaint with the Régie des Normes du Travail, that the rest of us had testified, and that we had won.

Newsflash: just because you didn't see it yourself, doesn't mean it didn't happen.