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What should you wear to work if you’re nonbinary?
The Seattle Times ^ | Jan. 15, 2023 | Shane O’Neill

Posted on 01/15/2023 1:17:10 PM PST by Salman

What should you wear to work if you’re nonbinary?

It may not be the most pressing question that gender-nonconforming people face on the job, but with approximately 1.2 million LGBTQ+ Americans identifying as nonbinary, employers and employees alike are exploring what professional attire can look like.

“I think people treat me with more dignity when I dress more masculinely, but people are way nicer to me when I dress more femininely,” said El Layla Johnson, 33, a former restaurant server who is now a therapist.

For Johnson, getting dressed for work has been a struggle since adolescence.

“I just feel like there’s a manual or rule book that people receive and that my copy got lost in the mail,” Johnson said.

Johnson recalled regularly crying while getting dressed for work at an upscale restaurant in Seattle. It wasn’t just that they found the restaurant’s dress code to be ugly. Johnson had a hard time finding clothes that fit at all.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News
KEYWORDS: commieville; crazytherapist; dresscode; homosexualagenda; nonbinary; seattle; wackytown; whattowear
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To: HKMk23
Maybe time for a chuckle?

Actually, I wouldn't be able to laugh at this but as I study the photo I realize it can't represent what the meme generator wants it to represent.

Which is hysterical since it didn't happen.


3,441 posted on 05/15/2023 1:58:00 PM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: ArGee

🤣


3,442 posted on 05/15/2023 3:07:25 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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To: ArGee

I am confused as well... it is after 5PM my time, and I still haven’t had any lunch yet...


3,443 posted on 05/15/2023 3:09:50 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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To: HKMk23

Wow, I gave it a try with a wild guess on row four...

I guessed this 5-letter word in 4/6 tries.

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Can you guess this word?
https://wordlegame.org?challenge=bW9jaGk


3,444 posted on 05/15/2023 3:23:05 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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To: no one in particular

New digs coming up soon...


3,445 posted on 05/15/2023 3:26:00 PM PDT by null and void (Be gentle with each other. You never know what someone is going through.)
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To: ArGee

Oooohhh, I think that meme represents EXACTLY what happened.

I bet cash money that box is a top-feed with live service from the mast head coming down from above. Looks for all the world like they yanked the meter out, and service was dead-headed at the box, but never disconnected from the utility pole, so everything from the meter socket out to the utility pole was still hot.

The clear plate over the meter port, and the “dead” line stubbed out of the bottom of the box make the perfect “moron bait” and it looks like it worked spectacularly.

Within milliseconds after that arc lit off, probably the insulation on both 120V service legs was gone and those bolt cutters were running a combined 240Vac dead short to neutral with total power limited only by the ampacity of the actual jaws of the tool as they were being vaporized.

How many amps possibly? Well...

Per Southern California Edison:
“The Company’s contribution to the available short-circuit current at the service entrance will not exceed 10,000 amperes...”

So...LOTS, and LOTS of amps. WAY more than those bolt cutters could withstand, anyway.

Hope the breaker on the utility side acted quickly, but those breakers are sized to protect the upstream transformer, not downstream equipment, so — WOO-HOOOOO!


3,446 posted on 05/16/2023 4:16:55 AM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: HKMk23

I see two counters to your story. 1: I don’t think the cutters would still be anywhere near the house if the person operating them had taken that kind of a zap. 2: If they were, because the person’s muscles clamped down instead of throwing him yards across the lawn, I don’t think the brass near the top would be so brassy.

But it makes a good image, anyway.


3,447 posted on 05/16/2023 4:32:17 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: dakine; GOPJ; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Tax-chick; Anoreth; Monkey Face; ...
So I'll see if I can help T-C out at the beach.


3,448 posted on 05/16/2023 4:35:30 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: ArGee

Good morning. Happy Twosday!

There’s not much going on. F-I-L’s brother had to go back to the nursing home recently, probably for the final time. Mrs. ArGee told her father this on Saturday. Yesterday her father asked her, “Did you hear about your uncle?”

Some days he’s got a better grasp of things than others.

We’re also trying to find out what happened to their Verizon bill. We know it came thanks to Informed Delivery. But they have no idea where it is.

Not a bad Wordle. Not a great Wordle, but not bad.

Wordle 696 4/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩


3,449 posted on 05/16/2023 4:43:32 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: ArGee

I wonder whether the bolt cutter in the pic ISN’T the tool involved in the, uhhhh, “experience”; as if someone put it there as a prop for a “lessons learned” photo.

Also, I’m led to wonder about the insulating properties of the grips on that tool. They might provide a pretty substantial amount of protection; enough that the worker escaped a serious jolt.

For sure it wasn’t the work of a Jawa, the blast point is too accurate. No, that was an Imperial Storm Trooper. Bet.


3,450 posted on 05/16/2023 4:44:44 AM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: Monkey Face
Here's today's grin.


3,451 posted on 05/16/2023 5:41:47 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: ArGee

Thanks! We moved while you were otherwise occupied, so if you wouldn’t mind post that in our new digs, I think it will fit right in!

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4153399/posts


3,452 posted on 05/16/2023 5:57:55 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Be thankful for the difficult people in your life,for they have shown you who you do not want to be.)
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