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Skittles

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1. I just deal with any harrassment I have faced
Sat Feb 1, 2014, 06:54 AM
Feb 2014

I have five brothers, was in the military and have long worked in a field dominated by men.........I don't find them that hard to deal with but you have to trash the offenders at their own level

Examples:

When I was in the military I was just walking on a sidewalk on base and a guy purposely moved to impede my path, got really close and said, "I bet you're real purty pink inside." See, a guy wearing sandals should never say that to a gal in combat boots. I stomped his foot as hard as I could, and left him hopping on one leg and screaming, and moved on my merry way. Bet he thought twice before doing that to another gal.

A couple of decades ago I did a stint in a hardware unit, and the men there absolutely resented being told to train a woman.......I had a locker assigned, close to theirs. Of course one morning I opened it to see a Playboy centerfold tacked on the door. I showed no reaction but inwardly I was very pleased because OMG that was my cue. I later knocked on the door of a couple of gay neighbors, and asked for a bunch of magazine pictures of nude men, preferably very well-endowed and very hairy. I went to work very early and papered their lockers with those pictures. You should have heard all the screaming and hollering. After that they ceased with the sexist bullshit, save for a few off-color jokes which really do not bother me. PROBLEM SOLVED!!!

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