Things NEVER to Say to Women Executives

DiversityInc ^ | 8 July | Zadya Rivera

[The Brush]

You're so short and I'm so tall.
I could give you six inches of me and we'd be even!

[Aquinasfan]

Of all the things I could get upset about, being called “honey” is not one of them. It depends on the delivery, but honey is most often a term of endearment. Why are people so easily offended?

It's like this. They're female and believe that they should be treated like men. Well, at least when it comes to salaries, but not when the faucet's leaking, or when the basement's flooding, or when the lawn needs mowing, or when the toilet needs fixing. Fixing these things is beneath them.

OK, the above is extrapolated entirely from my sister.

And dates should show up with flowers every week, just like on the old "Mary Tyler Moore Show."

I think I've covered it.

[aruanan]

That’d be good name for a magazine...”PMS Monthly”

The Moody Bible Institute has or had a magazine called Moody Monthly. One time my dad, a pastor, at a couples dinner asked the question, "How many of you get Moody Monthly?" There were a lot of snickers.

[STONEWALLS]

....what happened with us a lot was my wife had to serve on committees that met after work...and let’s face it nobody wants to hang around after work for boring committee meetings....but somebody had to “represent the dept” and everybody else seemed to suddenly have obligations involving their children.

[OB1kNOb]

“I got your quarterly report right here, babe.”

[chickpundit]

It beats ma’am :)

[JamesP81]

"Who lit the fuse on your tampon?"

This one doesn't work all that well but sure as hell schocks em.

You owe me a new keyboard.

[wardaddy]

my primary lender is a woman.

i’m a knuckledragger but she is great....she looks out for me and takes better care of my loan needs in business than do the men at the other banks I use.

it’s up to the individual

women have strongs suits in business when they let themselves be women I’ve found

strident chin leading types usually don’t cotton to me but reasonable happy to be female women usually like me and me them.

[woollyone]

Have a black woman in our office. When I go running at lunch, more than a few times, she’s said; “damn, you got nice legs (or a nice a**)...for a white boy”.

Racism, thinly disguised by a backhanded compliment that sounds just like an insult.

And you KNOW I cannot comment, as anything at all that I say to her will be considered a racist comment.

A double standard exists.

Welcome to the planet.

[50sDad]

I miss the America of my father's youth, where men often fought over politics, where a woman could accept a nicely-phrased compliment without assuming you were a rat-bastard, and if you disagreed with somebody, you had the right to tell them to go to Hell.

[bobjam]

“You must Tivo your soaps”

[glorgau]

“Shut up and get me a sandwich”

[50sDad]

I am "of an age", and have always tried to include the compliment "young man" to men older than myself, whom have been universally grateful. However, these days I have discovered that I have been on the receiving end of said secret handshake all too often.

Last week, I got the Good Word from a (really) young man at the local grocery, and was enjoying the compliment...up until he fumbled the pass by asking me "do you need some help getting your groceries to the car?"

DISCLAIMER: "50sDad" refers to my attitudes about the world, not my age, as I am yet a youthful 48!

[Larry Lucido]

Don’t ask, “Can I feel your material?”

[GladesGuru]

Time and gravity will remove the bag boy problem.

As Ernest Gann aptly wrote, “A woman has got just so many years before men start looking through her instead of at her . . .”

Enjoy it while you can.

Besides, Murphy likes mouthy twerps, that’s why there are so many of them.

;-)

[El Gran Salseron]

“Iron my shirt.”

Woman, I have told you 1,000 times that I refuse to wash the dishes until you iron my apron! :-)

Not pertinent to the thread but it is what came to mind when I read your post. :-)

[Centurion2000]

Have a black woman in our office. When I go running at lunch, more than a few times, she’s said; “damn, you got nice legs (or a nice a**)...for a white boy”.

Simple solution for that one. Just smile and reply, "Not even with a stolen dick, lady."

[Cyber Liberty]

Actually, it's a double standard. You're supposed to notice if she's pregnant, and you'll be chastised if you don't fawn over it. If she's just fat, you are also in trouble, only bigger (no pun intended).

A man has to ignore a pregnancy and hope he doesn't get complained about.

[wideminded]

Michelle Obama is handed over $270,000 per year to be “diversity coordinator” for University of Chicago Hospitals.

Her job title was "vice president for external affairs".