The Bluestocking, vol 42: Talking to machines and saying no to men
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Happy Friday! A nice short newsletter this year, because like Jeremy Corbyn I'm trying to pretend politics hasn't started again yet. Helen For Every Yes Man, There's A No Woman While there are certainly many “no” men, too, there’s a reason I associate this role with women. Even when our job description doesn’t specify that it’s our responsibility to rein in our colleagues, it just tends to happen. A friend who works as a consultant has observed that men “are never the one taking notes! They are never the ones writing out the after-meeting ‘action items’ list.” (Raise your hand if you’ve ever found yourself acting as de facto secretary for male colleagues who are no higher on the org chart than you are.) “Whoever is actually doing the documenting ends up needing to own the fact that no one agreed on a motherfucking thing. If you think your role in a meeting is just to drop your glorious magic genius and then peace out, it’s easy to never have to say no.”
The Bluestocking, vol 42: Talking to machines and saying no to men
The Bluestocking, vol 42: Talking to machines…
The Bluestocking, vol 42: Talking to machines and saying no to men
Happy Friday! A nice short newsletter this year, because like Jeremy Corbyn I'm trying to pretend politics hasn't started again yet. Helen For Every Yes Man, There's A No Woman While there are certainly many “no” men, too, there’s a reason I associate this role with women. Even when our job description doesn’t specify that it’s our responsibility to rein in our colleagues, it just tends to happen. A friend who works as a consultant has observed that men “are never the one taking notes! They are never the ones writing out the after-meeting ‘action items’ list.” (Raise your hand if you’ve ever found yourself acting as de facto secretary for male colleagues who are no higher on the org chart than you are.) “Whoever is actually doing the documenting ends up needing to own the fact that no one agreed on a motherfucking thing. If you think your role in a meeting is just to drop your glorious magic genius and then peace out, it’s easy to never have to say no.”