My client, a woman, rarely lets me complete a sentence.
Even on completely technical issues (and she's not technical).
Posted on 01/15/2015 9:02:16 AM PST by rightistight
If you are a woman and are speaking when a man butts in, you have not been interrupted. Instead, according to Time, you have been “manterrupted” because men disproportionately interrupt females and women rarely interrupt males.
According to an article published this week, titled “How Not to Be ‘Manterrupted’ In Meetings” and written by Jessica Bennett, there is an epidemic of sexism in which men do not respect the opinions of women.
Bennett’s first example is the infamous VMA award ceremony in which Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift. Yet this was not an aberration, according to Bennett, who sees it as the norm. She defines “manterruption” as “Unnecessary interruption of a woman by a man.”
Oddly, Bennett did not say that “occasionally” men interrupt women, nor does she say that only some do. Instead, she writes that it is men that interrupt women, period, and that all women have faced this menace.
“We speak up in a meeting,” she writes of women, “only to hear a man’s voice chime in louder. We pitch an idea, perhaps too uncertainly – only to have a dude repeat it with authority. We may possess the skill, but he has the right vocal chords – which means we shut up, losing our confidence (or worse, the credit for the work).”
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Feminazism is a form of mental illness.
I’ve sat in enough meetings to realize that raising my hand (about head level to get attention, not waving it above my head like I’m seated in the middle of classroom) does nothing to get recognized in a roundrobin discussion.
Each of the participants (male and female alike) talk over on another and they DO NOT recognize anyone else with something to contribute. When they want input (or someone to take the heat) THEN they will call out someone’s name to answer/be accountable.
I have to attend weekly meetings and it's pure torture.
Everyone thinks they should talk at the same time and so everyone shrieks at the top of their lungs.
Do you know how shrill it sounds with 10 women trying to talk over one another?
I'd rather have a knitting needle jammed into my ear drum... because it's that bad.
I tried muffling the sound by putting my finger in my ear... Of course, my ‘boss’ said I was being rude.
ME-I'M being rude.
They're all old hippies and young idiots who don't know manners from diddly. We even have one jerk who sit's there playing with her I phone the whole time. SHE'S the one whining all the time because she can't meet deadlines and has SUCH a work load..... I am sure it's because all her time is spent starring at her I phone. It's too much to believe.
In what universe? This may be one of the funnier things I've ever read in Time. The author has not been to the meetings I have, to say the very least.
I don't know why I give the perpetually aggrieved any time at all anymore. They've become petty, tendentious, and boring.
It was brought to my attention a few years ago that I did interrupt a woman in a meeting, so I, sufficiently chastened, have tried very hard not to do that ever since and pay close attention to the interruption habits of others.
I’m in a department with 11 members, four of whom are women. We have a lot of meetings, and there are two women who fact do interrupt. A lot. (Some but not all of the men, including me, don’t.)
It doesn’t intrinsically have to be that way. The dean is also a woman, and she is very hard-charging and ambitious. But she never interrupts.
When men interrupt, it’s an interruption.
When women interrupt, it’s nagging.
Half the professionals I work with are women and they have zero problem holding their own in any conversation or negotiation. This article may be the stupidest workplace article I have ever read.
I must be a victim of the "epidemic," because I don't respect this woman's opinion.
lol...funny.
lolol
There is certainly a difference between business settings and personal settings when it comes to female interrupting. One can easily imagine that traditionally, the home is where women feel they have more latitude to talk and even to "run things", by interrupting if they see fit.
As a woman who worked in corporate settings for years and had to break the glass ceiling to do so, I have learned many techniques to get my points across succinctly, including flattering the male who hogs the airtime by saying, "I know your time is valuable, so let me speak without interruption for about sixty seconds here to get through the main points I came to present, and then we can discuss." This usually works, and when they try to interrupt during that two minutes, I lower my eyes to my notes or my watch and put my hand up like a traffic cop, and that usually works, too. But not always.
My pet peeve with my women friends who call on the phone is the ones who launch into a wordspew the minute you say hello and do not stop for ten or fifteen minutes. It is so rude not to ask, "Is this a good time to talk?" One friend needs to be shouted at before she will stop, she is so engrossed in hearing the sound of her own voice.
I agree that the habit of interrupting is not gender-based. I am a female and I’m fairly certain I routinely interrupt. lol.... I have so many important things to say!
Reminds me of the old joke about the feminist who found out she was pregnant. She claimed the baby wasn't hers.
Like, watching "The View", only twice as bad.
She sounds as clever as my wife. When I am able to predict this debate tactic from my wife, I quickly reach for a pen and paper and start taking notes. This way, I can record the various topics we have expanded the discussion to, the history of them and my own thoughts which usually remain focussed on the original topic.
PS - This tactic does not normally de-escalate any tention that may or may not be present during such discussions.
STFU Jessica and make me a sandwich.
My wife says that I don't listen to her, at least I think that's what she says.
My client, a woman, rarely lets me complete a sentence.
Even on completely technical issues (and she's not technical).
Laz: "Hey! Great idea. Jessica, make us all sandwiches! That's a pretty girl! "(smacks her on the butt)
Yeah, but the question on everybody's mind, Laz, "would you...?"
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