In the 34 years of my professional career, I never...

[yobrault1]

46. As someone who has worked on this and the African continent

misogyny comes with the prospect of being a female business woman. I have had to put a few men in their place right from the get go. I showed them, I can literally get up and walk out. I am not there to be their victim, period. I've probably done that up to 50 times in my career.

Here's an example: I go to a business meeting as a marketing professional (my own boutique shop) and the meet goes very well between myself and 4 gentlemen. I ask for and am given the business.

Shortly after I leave their office, my cell phone rings, it's one of the men from the meeting. He asks me how I'm doing and I hesitantly say I am fine. He says, "Oh, yes, yes you are". I respond with "excuse me?". He ignores them then proceeds to ask me if I would like to come to his home and go for a swim in his pool and then relax over a nice dinner and maybe hit the hot tub after desert. He pauses long enough for me to say "Um, no the business your team just gave me is all I went to that meeting for, but thanks for the invite.". I let him go. Then immediately call the CEO of the company (the person that arranged the meeting) and told him about his "boy". He was livid. He assured me that I had the business and apologized profusely for his Executive's behaviour. The Executive did call me back that evening and apologized for being so forward and understood the position he put me in.

That doesn't happen every day and it certainly didn't happen 20 years ago. Now, this all happened and all the people, including myself, were black. But it doesn't matter, I have had these experience with men of all races. Race doesn't really factor here, it's about power and some people will take whatever power they perceive to have over another person and apply pressure to see what they can get away with. It's about power and who you give your power to. My altercations never got physical. No one ever laid their paws on me, that would have been another thing entirely. But growing up the way I did (foster care, before being adopted), I learned to push back against adults at a very young age, pretty much from when I learned right from wrong. Not all women or people in a non-power position have that perspective and will give their power away.

Cuomo has to go. He put his hands on other people. He put his hands on other people. He's done. Words are one thing and bad enough, but actions are on a whole other level. YOU CANNOT PUT YOUR F'N HANDS ON OTHER PEOPLE!!!! WHAT THE F?!

There is no place for him until he is held accountable and does what it takes to change his ways. He has to accept that he was wrong to do what he did, there is no way forward for him until he does that.

Wow. in 2019 and 2020 in the midst of #metoo and he's doing this shit. Just WOW!.