Posted on 10/25/2013 2:20:15 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Smart women don’t show cleavage — or at least that’s what one high-powered Manhattan law firm is telling its female employees.
The legal firm Clifford Chance sent female associates a bizarre memo advising them to stop giggling, squirming and showing cleavage while speaking in public, irking female employees who called the tips sexist, the legal news website Abovethelaw.com reports.
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“Check the background on the Divas from WWE.”
Lemme guess: They used to be lawyers but gave it up for more honest work?
I don’t find the Yiddish inflection endearing, myself. I maintain that it is the source of the Valley Girl variety. The S.F. Valley was colonized by a large influx of NY Jews.
I match the ‘literally’ and raise you an ‘I know right!’.
“He is the president. Could he just dress in a dignified way for the duration?”
He is, at best, a “gypsy in the Palace,” getting one over on “da man” so his peeps can live vicariously through his excesses.
It’s los Angeles. Tori Spelling.
Frank Zappa zeroed in on it.
No way is that from the Yiddish.
Could be, but...
I find it endearing because it brings to mind people who were taking care of their families with every word.
To paraphrase a line from “Full Metal Jacket”:
“Me litigate you long time!”
I know. You are so right.
Could we take a lesson or two on ‘what not to do’?
One would be, gentlemen, WE do NOT want to see your TOES.
But Never.
Well not in public.
You have to be on a beach and then you have to be carrying a serious burden like a volley ball set up or a cooler with good supplies. And then you’d better swim to make it seem necessary. Because we do not want to see your toes.
And we should never see the presidents toes. Not even his legs I do not ever want to see the knees of the President of the United States of America.
NO
What is with the ‘no panty hose’?
It is not good.
You have got to be kidding me.........
Do you live in the real world? Obviously not.
What is there to GET?
Before kids, to get life experience and build a nest egg, no problem.
So........
Got to stay home with mine. It is THE best lifestyle.
So did I, but I didn't stop working.
In reference to your comments about Church readings, the absolute opposite is true in my church. I absolutely CRINGE at most of the males, from teens to senior citizens, when they do them. Most have more inflection and proper pronunciation when reading the sports page. They either race through the readings as if they don’t want to be there or obviously have a reading disability.
Some of the women have horrendous speaking voices, but at least they do not butcher the language and know how to read aloud. The teen girls just need a bit more practice speaking/reading in front of an audience.
I was in broadcasting and have coached folks in public speaking.
Exactly how I dressed for 30 years. I don’t do it very often any more, but occasionally do find it necessary to do so. To his day I can still remember the various criticisms I received about my attire - usually from other women who generally wore corduroys and earth shoes.
What is there to get?
I loved taking care of my family. I don’t understand women who want two bosses.
Tori Spelling, daughter of Aaron Spelling, is Jewish. Therefore the Yiddish connection.
ur prolly rite
“Exactly how I dressed for 30 years. I don’t do it very often any more, but occasionally do find it necessary to do so. To his day I can still remember the various criticisms I received about my attire - usually from other women who generally wore corduroys and earth shoes.”
My experience too. I’m 5’4” and weigh 122 pounds with an hour glass figure that includes a flat stomach. The criticism I get is from females my age (in my forties) who “let themselves go.” I choose to emulate Jacqueline Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn’s style—very classy yet feminine—and women in the industry HATE it. Yet, I have heard horror stories of young female attorneys being asked to leave court because their skirts are so short they display their “business” when the lean forward. (It also displays their lack of judgment.) Can you guess the quality of clients they attract (if any?) Like I said, so sad.
Bingo!
or
I agree.
Exactly. :-)
Yiddish is not a “Jewish accent”, it is a European dialect.
Spelling grew up in Dallas, and he did not have a pronounced accent of any kind. His English was very good, in fact, and, as the creator of over one hundred TV shows, good communication skills would garner respect, the very subject of the thread.
If you want to make the case that the girls in the LA suburbs were speaking in the accents of their immigrant grandfathers, or if you’re trying to inflict some anti-Semitic bigotry here, it is just not selling.
I had a female boss at a law firm who was a stickler for “the right word” being used (not that the other didn’t convey the same message) but would slip into “U” for “you”, “BRB” and other texting shortcuts in the office environment.
A person looks like a moron when saying “u need to...”.
Glad I’m no longer working there.
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