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Time: Women in Meetings Never Interrupt Men, "Interruption" Should be Changed to "Manterruption"
Pundit Press ^ | 1/15/15 | Aurelius

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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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: banbossy; corporateliberalism; feminazism; libspalining; manipulation; manshaming; newwords; savethemales; smashthepatriarchy; time; timelies
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To: mountn man

Never. Not the clients. Never crap where I eat.


41 posted on 01/15/2015 10:34:23 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Blueflag

” It also comes down to the relevance and DURATION of your comments.”

Oh my gosh...the ones who babble on and on just to dominate the conversation, marveling the sound of the their own voice.


42 posted on 01/15/2015 11:17:59 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Albion Wilde
about sixty seconds ... during that two minutes

Uh... something's not adding up here. I think I'll need to requisition more fingers and toes.

43 posted on 01/15/2015 11:26:06 AM PST by Vroomfondel
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To: rightistight

Women get interrupted because they talk emotion to build “consensus” instead of planning the next logical step of procedure so WE CAN ALL GET OUT OF THIS ENDLESS MEETING!!!


44 posted on 01/15/2015 11:43:45 AM PST by donna
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To: rightistight
Instead, according to Time, you have been “manterrupted”

And Time should become Mime and STFU

45 posted on 01/15/2015 11:48:15 AM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Tenacious 1
But I keep track and report on her interruptions

I think I was married to you once. LOL Just kidding.

46 posted on 01/15/2015 11:49:09 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: donna
Women AND LIBERALS get interrupted because they talk emotion to build “consensus” instead of planning the next logical step of procedure so WE CAN ALL GET OUT OF THIS ENDLESS MEETING!!!
47 posted on 01/15/2015 11:57:06 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: rightistight

So when you are in a meeting and a woman interrupts frequently, she’s actually a tranny? The things you can learn from Time are amazing.


48 posted on 01/15/2015 12:27:32 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: pallis

Standard femaale behavior.


49 posted on 01/15/2015 6:27:28 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: SMARTY

Pretty much my experience at meetings at work.


50 posted on 01/15/2015 6:29:31 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
manterrupt

If you were wondering if you paid too much for your education...

51 posted on 01/15/2015 6:34:34 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: rightistight

That means in a meeting of all men that there’s constant interruption and yet nobody seems to get their panties in a bunch about it.


52 posted on 01/15/2015 6:43:13 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Vroomfondel
about sixty seconds ... during that two minutes

Yeah, see what I did there? Ask for one minute and take two....

53 posted on 01/15/2015 7:54:41 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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