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OneYieldRegular's avatar

I once got turned down for a job - a promotion inside my office that went to an attractive young woman. When the announcement was made in a meeting that was mostly men, a bunch of them started sniggering and smiling and giving one another these knowing looks. I don't think they knew I'd applied for the job.

It turned out that a couple years before, someone had gotten ahold of sexually explicit photos of this young woman and had handed them around the office. So all these guys were in on it.

It was one of the grossest things I ever witnessed in an employment situation. Later one of the guys went to prison for sexual assault, so that was some kind of vindication. But it's the others - like those on the floor of Congress who no doubt had the same sniggering reaction when Matt Gaetz showed around his photos - who stick in my mind.

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Pat Kolmer's avatar

You know, I've always felt hurt that, when I was in high school, I wasn't very popular with girls.

Somehow it's reassuring that Matt Gaetz didn't get his first high school girlfriend until he was almost 40.*

*It's a joke, folks. Give me a break.

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