A friend of mine on FB posted this yesterday:
I make it widely known that I play poker regularly. The game is dominated by men 9:1. I’m not intimidated because my overall experience hasn’t been one of overt misogyny.
However, just since Tuesday, I noticed
- one inappropriate joke from a Trump supporter about a famous female poker player, and
- a conversation between two Trump supporters happy about the election somehow morphed into Kapernick’s girlfriend being “of that persuasion” and he’s “pu*sy whipped.” Direct quotes.
I’m extremely grateful to the white male dealer who assertively put an end to the conversation.
Men - I know this doesn’t represent you. But I hope you consider that people like this now feel more emboldened to bring such tasteless behavior out in public after being oppressed by “wokeness” for so long. There is a faction of our society that has been festering underground, possibly for generations, and now they feel their time has come.
She’s right. It’s time for men to step up and definitively say “this is not ok”. Because it’s not. And it never should have been.
