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quanticle on Dec 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anti-pattern theater: how to get women to quit

... it is that managers call men jerks, lazy or assholes, but they'll say that women are shrill or "too emotional".

I don't really see a distinction. To me calling someone an asshole is equally a personal to calling someone shrill.

daxelrod on Dec 4, 2011 [–]

The distinction is that, in many peoples' eyes, "shrill" as a personal insult is almost always directed at women. There is a stereotype of a shrill woman.

mkopinsky on Dec 5, 2011 | [–]

And asshole as a personal insult is almost always directed at men.

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