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Coworker taking feminism back 100 years

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shushgirl · 24/05/2015 17:11

A coworker of mine is using her body to get where she wants and has qualms about it. She has quickly received two promotions and I fear they have been gained by inappropriate means. She wears these tight pants where you can see the outline of her labia. I don't know how to address this or knock some sense into her without coming off as jealous or threatened. It's like, cover your tits and use your brain even if it means struggling like the rest of us. Just because you have a fancy vergina doesn't mean you can use it to get ahead of the rest of us who prefer to keep our legs closed.

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shushgirl · 24/05/2015 18:36

Her tops are incredibly low cut as well.

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Blarblarblar · 24/05/2015 18:37

The poor woman probably doesn't even realise she has the hoof. Sometimes it creeps up on me, look fine in my jeans in mirror at home walk into town and BLAM there it is.

WickedWileyWaitress · 24/05/2015 18:37

I use my body to get what I want all the time. Just made a cup of tea with it. Might go to the shops in a bit.

Shaska- I love this! I may steal it if that's okay!

I love vergina too. Makes it sound less clinical and more fun somehow.

uglyswan · 24/05/2015 18:39

If mangling the English language gives you power over your own body, then my 2 yo neice is obviously a paragon of self-empowerment. But thank you, OP, you have no idea how much I needed that laugh.
Yonic, I'm very very jealous. Do you do pelvic exercises or EMS training? Or are your labia just infused with the power of your awe-inspiring feminism? I can't even clap with mine.

YonicScrewdriver · 24/05/2015 18:40

I think she's wearing a mankini, Penguins.

"I use VERgina because it belongs to HER and by calling it that it gives us power over our own body."

Really? I call it a vagina, because that's the actual word for it.

Except it's not, OP. I believe "vulva" is the word you want. Or Vulver, perchance.

PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 24/05/2015 18:41

I don't understaaaaaaand I have never found camel toe to be something you flash for a promotion. Indeed, fashion reports are very clear and critical on them. As are teen comedies. Are you saying I could have been an equity partner if only I had given myself the most enormous front wedgie.

Why did none of my fellow feminists tell me that my flaps were magic weapons?!

PinkSquash · 24/05/2015 18:43

My vergina is on the brink of collapse, well my pelvic floor is due to this poxy illness.

Surely her labia will catch a chill walking round in a -presumably- air conditioned building

shushgirl · 24/05/2015 18:43

It isn't her beef curtains that's getting her these promotions, if I wasn't clear I think she is sleeping her way to the top. I just meant that she dresses inappropriately too.

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PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 24/05/2015 18:45

Beef curtains?

So she's bribing the top brass with cookery too?

Oh gosh my poor lady brain is all confused.

Devora · 24/05/2015 18:46

It really depends whether having a fancy vag is in her job description, and was one of the selection criteria for the job? It's becoming an increasingly important part of professional development, I hear.

SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 24/05/2015 18:46

So, she's sleeping her way to the top, and is in a state of undress - hmm - OP, are you bed testers for Slumberland?

iklboo · 24/05/2015 18:47

Meat & too vag.

SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 24/05/2015 18:47

Devora she has a fancy VERgina, not a vag, that would be ordinary and unempowered.

CatOfTheWoods · 24/05/2015 18:49

OP that throwaway "beef curtains" was inspired :o

CommonplaceMagic · 24/05/2015 18:51

What are beef curtains?

The mind boggles.

motherinferior · 24/05/2015 18:51

Is it a golden Verginia?

PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 24/05/2015 18:54

I am imagining something not dissimilar to shabu shabu commonplace.

WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid · 24/05/2015 18:57

Don't get in a flap about it .... (sorry couldn't help myself

Grin
SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 24/05/2015 18:58

Except on rainy days, when she's wearing her beef wellington.

alexpolistigers · 24/05/2015 18:58

This is what Vergina is to me.

It's not bad, I've got some in the fridge.

Anniegetyourgun · 24/05/2015 19:00

uglyswan I can't even clap with mine.

Be grateful for that. Clap is something you don't want anywhere near your important little places.

amarmai · 24/05/2015 19:09

shushboy?

shaska · 24/05/2015 19:12

Yonic I knew I felt a draft. Little blighters are always buggering off doing things without my permission. Maybe the OPs colleague has a similar issue, her labia off applying for promotions behind her back, presenting themselves for inspection to middle management...

shaska · 24/05/2015 19:17

Oh wait totally misread Yonic. Thought you said my labia made you a cup of tea.

Seems we're all present and correct after all.

Anniegetyourgun · 24/05/2015 19:20

Anyway, enough of this silliness. Time to call the meeting to order. What, as feminists, should we be doing about the OP's colleague's career advancement technique and unsuitable officewear? Should we stage an intervention? Write a stern letter to her management? Knit her a woolly skirt?