Is it just my kid or is this the new culture now?

I feel older son is very confused, or he is just going with the norm. All of a sudden seems half of his Sophmore classmates are non binary and they are so sensitive I can’t say one thing without being called a homophobic or a racist.

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spjennifer · 56-60, T

Yeah, it's getting that way in many workplaces now too, you can't even compliment someone for looking nice anymore, male or female or non-binary. You have to be very careful and conscious of what you say too as words that have crept into our vocabularies over the years are no longer acceptable either. It's a mad, mad, mad world... 😖

LeopoldBloom · M

@spjennifer Yeah, I can’t even tell a woman she has nice tits anymore without getting in trouble. Too bad it’s not 1950 anymore.

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spjennifer · 56-60, T

@LeopoldBloom I get it, believe me, but I can't even tell a person that a certain clothing item or the way they have their hair cut looks good on them anymore without it being misconstrued. No ill intentions here but yeah, I remember the days when secretaries got chased around the desk by dirty old men or got felt up in the copy room and that was lot more recently than the 50's... 😖

LeopoldBloom · M

@spjennifer I remember a manager I had in the 90s who got back from a national meeting and mentioned "Mr. Hands" had been there. The female managers had a name for one of their male colleagues, and it wasn't because his last name was "Hands."

I think the Clarence Thomas hearings really brought sexual harassment into the national dialogue. People hadn't really thought about it until then.

spjennifer · 56-60, T

@LeopoldBloom I remember as a young Engineer in the early 80's seeing with disgust how women were treated in the workplace, the managers would compete with each other on which "hot young piece of ass they could fuck" so she could keep her job for a while😖

LeopoldBloom · M

@spjennifer From what I hear, sexual harassment in the sciences is still pretty bad, especially in academia.

spjennifer · 56-60, T

@LeopoldBloom I work in a medium sized Hospital with about 350 nurses under my charge, we still see lots of it from the Doctors, mostly the older ones. Board and Exec's are still partial to the Dr,'s and loathe to bring them up on it too but the younger ones seem to get it...

LeopoldBloom · M

@spjennifer It's definitely more prevalent among older men. Do you think there is a correlation between viewing women as sex objects and blatant disrespect toward minorities and LGBT? Of course, they can be guilty of it too.

spjennifer · 56-60, T

@LeopoldBloom I don't know, in Hospitals it's also about the power dynamic between Doctors and Nurses, Doctors hold more sway due to their positions but yes, part of it is also women being viewed as sex objects, specially pretty young Nurses. We have some diversity and even a few LGBTQ+ Nurses, including myself but it's very much about what the Doctors can get away with because of how much revenue they bring in to the Hospital, money talks...