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Really should rename this board to "articles and crappenings" in honor of this thread.
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You really think that this being a universal deal isn't the logical conclusion?
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At some point in the day I'm going to have to shit, logically I would prefer to do so while I'm getting paid for the privilege
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Bruh just sit backwards, then your problem is solved
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I agree with the sentiment but not the practice.
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Nobody prefers to shit at work. Life comes at you fast, though
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More of San Francisco being San Francisco....
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/man-caught-pooping-in-aisle-of-san-francisco-safeway/
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Men are showing up to the Wing and women are pissed
“It’s getting worse. A guy even checked me out a few weeks ago,” says one member.
nypost.com
Ladies, leave your man at home.
The Wing was supposed to be the ultimate sanctuary for women: decidedly feminine in design, with walls and furniture in shades of millennial pink and a thermometer set at a women’s-clothing-friendly 72 degrees. Conference rooms and telephone booths are named after feminist icons like Anita Hill and fictional literary heroines such as Hermione Granger of “Harry Potter” fame. It offers perks that other co-working spaces can’t match — showers stocked with high-end beauty products and events featuring big names such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Critics of the Wing were quick to point out the lack of diversity in the spaces, but the company’s expansion and popularity has brought up a completely different issue that was never expected to arise: straight men wanting to come in and hang out.
Sure, it’s not against the rules for men to be at the lady lair, which costs anywhere from $185 to $250 a month in the US to join. But that’s only because legally the company can’t ban men.
“There’s usually at least one [man] whenever I visit,” says Kaitlin Phillips, 29, a member in New York for the past two years. “It’s bizarre to choose to occupy a space women specifically wanted for themselves. Classic patriarchal entitlement complex.”
“At first it was jarring,” says a 30-year-old longtime New York member, who asked to not be named. “It started about a year ago and it’s getting worse. A guy even checked me out a few weeks ago. The whole purpose of the space is to not have to deal with anything like that.”
The Wing, which started with one location in New York in 2016 and has grown to nine locations in seven cities, including a new international outpost in London, never had a membership policy, because, reps say, they didn’t think they’d need one. Instead, they simply billed themselves as a women’s co-working space and social club.
This lack of official paperwork garnered the attention of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in 2018, which opened an investigation into the company. The Wing’s large membership — more than 11,000 worldwide, according to reps — meant it couldn’t pass as a “social club,” and therefore can’t discriminate based on gender. This, coupled with a lawsuit brought by a 53-year-old man earlier this year claiming gender discrimination, led the Wing to formally adopt a membership policy: “The Wing is a space designed for women with a women’s-focused mission. Members and guests are welcome regardless of their perceived gender or gender identity. Recognizing that gender identity is not always consistent with someone’s sex assigned at birth, we do not ask members or guests to self-identify.”
Based on the new policy, the commission confirms to The Post that it dropped its investigation this past summer.
But all of the women The Post spoke to had the same questions: Why would a man want to go to the Wing, anyway? Just because he can? To hit on women? To be a troll? The company’s magazine is called No Man’s Land!
Enlarge ImageVlasta Pilot/BFA.com
Phillips says that she thinks the problem is new members — who may not be as familiar with the original purpose of the space — bringing in men as their guests.
“I think they’re just losers,” she says of the male plus-ones. “Or cucked boyfriends. It’s a legal fluke.”
Up until about a year or so ago, when the space was truly a women-only sanctuary, members said they could comfortably walk around braless in a robe after a shower. Now, they say, they’re constantly looking over their shoulders wondering who the loud dude is chewing his lunch.
Numerous California members tell The Post that the phenomenon is getting out of hand.
“It’s just annoying,” says Caitlin White, a 31-year-old West Hollywood member who sees at least one man working in the space each day. “Why do men need to be there? Why can’t they respect the spirit of the place? Men have to have everything.”
The San Francisco location, numerous members tell The Post, “is really bad — like, filled with tech bros.”
“I usually see about five men coming in throughout the day,” says a 31-year-old San Francisco member who asked to remain anonymous. “I think it’s members bringing in men for investor meetings. Here, everyone is in [venture capital], and men still hold all the money and power. These women are trying to fund their businesses.”
Enlarge ImageAccording to its web site, the Wing is a “growing community of women” who gather to “work, connect, and thrive.”Vlasta Pilot/BFA.com
When she first joined, she says, she made the mistake of bringing in her cis male boss for a meeting, something that she now regrets.
“I’ll never do that again,” she says. “He didn’t respect the space, acting like we were in a coffee shop or something. I was getting looks from other members.”
In New York, of course, the stares are no less subtle.
“I glare at the men and I glare at the members who bring them,” says the anonymous New York member.
White, meanwhile, says that she hopes that the company can work out some sort of happy medium.
“Maybe make it one day a week that men are allowed?” White says. “There has to be a legal way to work this out that still respects the space.”
The Wing was supposed to be the ultimate sanctuary for women: decidedly feminine in design, with walls and furniture in shades of millennial pink and a thermometer set at a women’s-clothing-friendly 72 degrees. Conference rooms and telephone booths are named after feminist icons like Anita Hill and fictional literary heroines such as Hermione Granger of “Harry Potter” fame. It offers perks that other co-working spaces can’t match — showers stocked with high-end beauty products and events featuring big names such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Critics of the Wing were quick to point out the lack of diversity in the spaces, but the company’s expansion and popularity has brought up a completely different issue that was never expected to arise: straight men wanting to come in and hang out.
Sure, it’s not against the rules for men to be at the lady lair, which costs anywhere from $185 to $250 a month in the US to join. But that’s only because legally the company can’t ban men.
“There’s usually at least one [man] whenever I visit,” says Kaitlin Phillips, 29, a member in New York for the past two years. “It’s bizarre to choose to occupy a space women specifically wanted for themselves. Classic patriarchal entitlement complex.”
The problem, multiple members have told The Post, is that the men physically take up too much space with their bigger bodies and belongings. They hog up the phone booths. And they aren’t respectful of some of the rules, ignoring the four-hour cap on guest visits and bringing in outside food. While they aren’t using the members-only changing rooms and showers (yet), they are in the guest bathrooms.
“At first it was jarring,” says a 30-year-old longtime New York member, who asked to not be named. “It started about a year ago and it’s getting worse. A guy even checked me out a few weeks ago. The whole purpose of the space is to not have to deal with anything like that.”
The Wing, which started with one location in New York in 2016 and has grown to nine locations in seven cities, including a new international outpost in London, never had a membership policy, because, reps say, they didn’t think they’d need one. Instead, they simply billed themselves as a women’s co-working space and social club.
This lack of official paperwork garnered the attention of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in 2018, which opened an investigation into the company. The Wing’s large membership — more than 11,000 worldwide, according to reps — meant it couldn’t pass as a “social club,” and therefore can’t discriminate based on gender. This, coupled with a lawsuit brought by a 53-year-old man earlier this year claiming gender discrimination, led the Wing to formally adopt a membership policy: “The Wing is a space designed for women with a women’s-focused mission. Members and guests are welcome regardless of their perceived gender or gender identity. Recognizing that gender identity is not always consistent with someone’s sex assigned at birth, we do not ask members or guests to self-identify.”
Based on the new policy, the commission confirms to The Post that it dropped its investigation this past summer.
But all of the women The Post spoke to had the same questions: Why would a man want to go to the Wing, anyway? Just because he can? To hit on women? To be a troll? The company’s magazine is called No Man’s Land!
Enlarge ImageVlasta Pilot/BFA.com
Phillips says that she thinks the problem is new members — who may not be as familiar with the original purpose of the space — bringing in men as their guests.
“I think they’re just losers,” she says of the male plus-ones. “Or cucked boyfriends. It’s a legal fluke.”
Up until about a year or so ago, when the space was truly a women-only sanctuary, members said they could comfortably walk around braless in a robe after a shower. Now, they say, they’re constantly looking over their shoulders wondering who the loud dude is chewing his lunch.
Numerous California members tell The Post that the phenomenon is getting out of hand.
“It’s just annoying,” says Caitlin White, a 31-year-old West Hollywood member who sees at least one man working in the space each day. “Why do men need to be there? Why can’t they respect the spirit of the place? Men have to have everything.”
The San Francisco location, numerous members tell The Post, “is really bad — like, filled with tech bros.”
“I usually see about five men coming in throughout the day,” says a 31-year-old San Francisco member who asked to remain anonymous. “I think it’s members bringing in men for investor meetings. Here, everyone is in [venture capital], and men still hold all the money and power. These women are trying to fund their businesses.”
Enlarge ImageAccording to its web site, the Wing is a “growing community of women” who gather to “work, connect, and thrive.”Vlasta Pilot/BFA.com
When she first joined, she says, she made the mistake of bringing in her cis male boss for a meeting, something that she now regrets.
“I’ll never do that again,” she says. “He didn’t respect the space, acting like we were in a coffee shop or something. I was getting looks from other members.”
In New York, of course, the stares are no less subtle.
“I glare at the men and I glare at the members who bring them,” says the anonymous New York member.
White, meanwhile, says that she hopes that the company can work out some sort of happy medium.
“Maybe make it one day a week that men are allowed?” White says. “There has to be a legal way to work this out that still respects the space.”
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MOORE, Okla. (KFOR) - A man was arrested after allegedly wearing a mask while flashing his gun at a convenience store in Moore.
Riley Connel was charged with possession of a firearm while intoxicated, possession of a firearm after a felony conviction, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, public intoxication, and obstruction of an officer.
Moore police were called to a convenience store at the corner of N. Broadway near I-35.
According to court documents, Connel was wearing a "green coat with a mask and a gun in his right coat pocket." He allegedly pulled the gun from the coat and showed it to people.
When officers arrived, they found Connel around the corner in a parking lot.
They ordered him to remove his hands from his pockets several times, but he wouldn't.
Finally, an officer came up behind him and tased him.
"Dealing with this individual in the past, he’s usually intoxicated when we deal with him and has all different kinds of emotions," Sgt. Jeremy Lewis said. "He can be happy or mad, you just really don’t know."
After they had him in handcuffs, Connel argued with officers, heard on body camera video saying "I just got my Second Amendment from Donald Trump," and "give my .25 back and let me the [EXPLETIVE] out of [EXPLETIVE] being in custody right now. Call Donald Trump."
Officers agree you can't just arrest a person for having a gun, but they'll always respond, and there are situations they need to address.
"Wearing a mask into a store with a weapon, that’s usually going to throw up some red flags usually for the business owner. But we do have to at least go to the call if we’re given it and try to determine what’s going on, and that’s kind of what they did," Sgt. Lewis said. "It was kind of easy to tell he wasn’t quite alright when we approached him."
Riley Connel was charged with possession of a firearm while intoxicated, possession of a firearm after a felony conviction, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, public intoxication, and obstruction of an officer.
Moore police were called to a convenience store at the corner of N. Broadway near I-35.
According to court documents, Connel was wearing a "green coat with a mask and a gun in his right coat pocket." He allegedly pulled the gun from the coat and showed it to people.
When officers arrived, they found Connel around the corner in a parking lot.
They ordered him to remove his hands from his pockets several times, but he wouldn't.
Finally, an officer came up behind him and tased him.
"Dealing with this individual in the past, he’s usually intoxicated when we deal with him and has all different kinds of emotions," Sgt. Jeremy Lewis said. "He can be happy or mad, you just really don’t know."
After they had him in handcuffs, Connel argued with officers, heard on body camera video saying "I just got my Second Amendment from Donald Trump," and "give my .25 back and let me the [EXPLETIVE] out of [EXPLETIVE] being in custody right now. Call Donald Trump."
Officers agree you can't just arrest a person for having a gun, but they'll always respond, and there are situations they need to address.
"Wearing a mask into a store with a weapon, that’s usually going to throw up some red flags usually for the business owner. But we do have to at least go to the call if we’re given it and try to determine what’s going on, and that’s kind of what they did," Sgt. Lewis said. "It was kind of easy to tell he wasn’t quite alright when we approached him."
Suspicious, inebriated man with gun tased and arrested by Moore PD
MOORE, Okla. (KFOR) – A man was arrested after allegedly wearing a mask while flashing his gun at a convenience store in Moore. Riley Connel was charged with possession of a firearm while int…
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Brianna Wu, aka John W Flynt, has a membership there, so they are technically even admitting men with amputated penises into their sanctuary.Men are showing up to the Wing and women are pissed
“It’s getting worse. A guy even checked me out a few weeks ago,” says one member.
Ladies, leave your man at home.
The Wing was supposed to be the ultimate sanctuary for women: decidedly feminine in design, with walls and furniture in shades of millennial pink and a thermometer set at a women’s-clothing-friendly 72 degrees. Conference rooms and telephone booths are named after feminist icons like Anita Hill and fictional literary heroines such as Hermione Granger of “Harry Potter” fame. It offers perks that other co-working spaces can’t match — showers stocked with high-end beauty products and events featuring big names such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Critics of the Wing were quick to point out the lack of diversity in the spaces, but the company’s expansion and popularity has brought up a completely different issue that was never expected to arise: straight men wanting to come in and hang out.
Sure, it’s not against the rules for men to be at the lady lair, which costs anywhere from $185 to $250 a month in the US to join. But that’s only because legally the company can’t ban men.
“There’s usually at least one [man] whenever I visit,” says Kaitlin Phillips, 29, a member in New York for the past two years. “It’s bizarre to choose to occupy a space women specifically wanted for themselves. Classic patriarchal entitlement complex.”
The problem, multiple members have told The Post, is that the men physically take up too much space with their bigger bodies and belongings. They hog up the phone booths. And they aren’t respectful of some of the rules, ignoring the four-hour cap on guest visits and bringing in outside food. While they aren’t using the members-only changing rooms and showers (yet), they are in the guest bathrooms.
“At first it was jarring,” says a 30-year-old longtime New York member, who asked to not be named. “It started about a year ago and it’s getting worse. A guy even checked me out a few weeks ago. The whole purpose of the space is to not have to deal with anything like that.”
The Wing, which started with one location in New York in 2016 and has grown to nine locations in seven cities, including a new international outpost in London, never had a membership policy, because, reps say, they didn’t think they’d need one. Instead, they simply billed themselves as a women’s co-working space and social club.
This lack of official paperwork garnered the attention of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in 2018, which opened an investigation into the company. The Wing’s large membership — more than 11,000 worldwide, according to reps — meant it couldn’t pass as a “social club,” and therefore can’t discriminate based on gender. This, coupled with a lawsuit brought by a 53-year-old man earlier this year claiming gender discrimination, led the Wing to formally adopt a membership policy: “The Wing is a space designed for women with a women’s-focused mission. Members and guests are welcome regardless of their perceived gender or gender identity. Recognizing that gender identity is not always consistent with someone’s sex assigned at birth, we do not ask members or guests to self-identify.”
Based on the new policy, the commission confirms to The Post that it dropped its investigation this past summer.
But all of the women The Post spoke to had the same questions: Why would a man want to go to the Wing, anyway? Just because he can? To hit on women? To be a troll? The company’s magazine is called No Man’s Land!
Enlarge ImageVlasta Pilot/BFA.com
Phillips says that she thinks the problem is new members — who may not be as familiar with the original purpose of the space — bringing in men as their guests.
“I think they’re just losers,” she says of the male plus-ones. “Or cucked boyfriends. It’s a legal fluke.”
Up until about a year or so ago, when the space was truly a women-only sanctuary, members said they could comfortably walk around braless in a robe after a shower. Now, they say, they’re constantly looking over their shoulders wondering who the loud dude is chewing his lunch.
Numerous California members tell The Post that the phenomenon is getting out of hand.
“It’s just annoying,” says Caitlin White, a 31-year-old West Hollywood member who sees at least one man working in the space each day. “Why do men need to be there? Why can’t they respect the spirit of the place? Men have to have everything.”
The San Francisco location, numerous members tell The Post, “is really bad — like, filled with tech bros.”
“I usually see about five men coming in throughout the day,” says a 31-year-old San Francisco member who asked to remain anonymous. “I think it’s members bringing in men for investor meetings. Here, everyone is in [venture capital], and men still hold all the money and power. These women are trying to fund their businesses.”
Enlarge ImageAccording to its web site, the Wing is a “growing community of women” who gather to “work, connect, and thrive.”Vlasta Pilot/BFA.com
When she first joined, she says, she made the mistake of bringing in her cis male boss for a meeting, something that she now regrets.
“I’ll never do that again,” she says. “He didn’t respect the space, acting like we were in a coffee shop or something. I was getting looks from other members.”
In New York, of course, the stares are no less subtle.
“I glare at the men and I glare at the members who bring them,” says the anonymous New York member.
White, meanwhile, says that she hopes that the company can work out some sort of happy medium.
“Maybe make it one day a week that men are allowed?” White says. “There has to be a legal way to work this out that still respects the space.”
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A Gay Saudi Journalist Detained While Seeking Asylum in Australia Speaks Out
He and his romantic partner had fled death threats in Saudi Arabia
'I Never Wanted to Be a Dissident.' A Gay Saudi Journalist Seeking Asylum in Australia Speaks Out After Being Detained
Two weeks before a Saudi assassination team murdered dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October 2018, Saudi Arabia’s state security agency summoned Sultan, then a 46-year-old senior official at the Saudi Ministry of Media, to a prison on the outskirts of Riyadh.
Sultan says that throughout, he continued to receive calls and emails from international journalists keen to work with him. He declined their offers but occasionally connected them with producers he thought could help. That, he believes, crossed a red line for the Saudi government and precipitated the exposure of his relationship with Nassar.
In Australia, the couple has now been released from detention after Australia’s Senate passed a resolution on Dec. 4, forcing the government to recognize that its detention of Sultan and Nasar at Villawood had placed them at increased risk. (Highlighting the dangers faced by asylum seekers, Amnesty International said that about three-quarters of some 485 individuals detained at Villawood are criminal deportees, or others who have had their visas canceled for character reasons.) Nassar was released on Friday Dec. 13, and Sultan was released four days later.
In an interview 11 days before he was released, Sultan detailed the circumstances that forced him to flee Saudi Arabia, and provided an insider account of how the ascent of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has shifted red lines for journalists and activists working in the Kingdom. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
TIME: You had assisted visiting international news organizations in Saudi Arabia for years. How did you come to be employed at the Ministry of Media?
Sultan: In 2017, I was approached by the Minister of Media. He asked me to do for him what I had been doing up until that point: working with the foreign media to help manage the Kingdom’s reputation abroad. I told him I did not want to be part of the propaganda machine but he said that he only wanted me to ensure fair and accurate reporting about Saudi Arabia. That sounded like a good deal and I accepted. Part of my official role was to grant visas to foreign journalists, study the reporting they’d done in the past, and determine how to best get them to report fairly and accurately. I love my country and I loved the challenge of trying to help people understand our culture. Our government is difficult to understand but our culture is a good one.
Were you aware during your career as a field producer, of red lines journalists covering Saudi Arabia should not cross?
Even with the religious police and the hard-line clerics, we had gotten used to how Saudi Arabia worked, and we knew how to operate in it. It was never completely clear but up until about 2017, there was a sense of where the red lines were. You did not attack the ultra-conservative religious establishment. You did not attack the royal family. And you did not attack any princes or high-power people by name. If reporters wanted to do a story about a company official accused of corruption, for example, there was a certain person in the Ministry of Interior I would call and ask whether it was going to be a problem. They would say: steer them away from this person, or that’s fine, go ahead.
How did the media environment change after Mohammed bin Salman became Saudi Arabia’s de-facto leader in 2017, the year you began working for the state?
The Kingdom was changing in ways that no one had expected — ways that were very positive. People who were known to be corrupt, who had stolen billions from the country, were suddenly being arrested. Women’s rights were at the forefront, and the changes that Loujain al-Hathloul and other people who were considered dissidents were fighting for were starting to happen. The religious police, which most liberal people like me detested, had their powers taken away and suddenly the press were criticizing ultra-conservatives, saying they’d oppressed the country since 1979. It felt like a lot of the red lines were being lifted; that was cause to celebrate.
At the same time, there were crackdowns against human rights activists and writers. Were you aware of the rationale behind those arrests at the time?
People like Loujain al-Hathloul and Eman Al Nafjan were suddenly being arrested. A whole bunch of writers were arrested and we didn’t know the reason. People have surmised that the government didn’t want dissidents getting credit for the changes that were happening, but it was never put out in the public domain. I felt somewhat protected because of my position at the Ministry of Media. I thought I could guide the foreign media through the changes and figure out where the new red lines were. But to end up being pulled out in such a horrible way and threatened that they are going to out my partner and I to our families and put our lives in danger made me realize I no longer knew Saudi Arabia. I never wanted to be a dissident. I love my country and I support the positive changes that Saudi Arabia is going through. But arresting journalists, throwing people in jail without any explanation or trial, is a very alarming development.
Why is the press being muzzled at a time Saudi Arabia is attempting to move towards a more open society? Aren’t those two things in contradiction?
Let’s not forget that Saudi Arabia is an ultra-conservative country. The majority of people are against the General Entertainment Authority. These are people that want to have nothing to do with Mariah Carey or Nicki Minaj [who in July pulled out of a planned performance in Jeddah, citing her support for LGBT people and free expression]; these are people that want the religious police back; these are people that want to be able to control their women. The changes [Bin Salman] is making are the kind that could lead to a revolution and I think the government is afraid there’s going to be civil unrest. By controlling the media, by arresting a lot of people, they’re showing that anyone speaking up against the changes is going to be silenced. But a successful government is one that allows people to speak their minds and discusses the dissent so that it’s no longer dissent.
In a November crackdown, Saudi authorities reportedly arrested at least seven more journalists. But in December, the Saudi Journalists Association, which says it is a civil society organization, hosted a forum in Riyadh discussing things like the relationship between the media and democracy. Has anything changed since Khashoggi’s murder?
There’s no such thing as independent media in Saudi Arabia. Everybody watches what they say. This [media forum] seems like a PR stunt to alleviate some of the pressure because a lot of people have lost face. One thing that could be a positive step is that since Jamal’s killing Saudi Arabia has put media relations under the Royal Court and established a whole new team of young men and women to help foreign press get certain interviews. But you’re not going to find anybody in Saudi Arabia writing anything negative about the Kingdom. And if the person does write something, he’s going to end up in the same place as those people who were just arrested. Had I still been there, I’m sure my name would have been among them.
How did your two months of detention fit with the conditions you expected as an asylum seeker?
Before coming here I had read about offshore detention centers where people would be held for months and years until their asylum claims are processed. But those are people that attempted to come to Australia by boat; we came with visas. Villawood is a multi-million dollar facility and it does not look like a prison but for us to come here in handcuffs and to be put in an environment with people that are using crystal meth, it was very intimidating. Although I’ve been threatened, intimidated and bullied in Saudi Arabia, I was never thrown in a jail cell without charge. That didn’t happen to us until we came to Australia.
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It literally does, though. It's the fucking LAPD.
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Women ban men only spaces by making them illegal by discrimination. Women then have snits over men in their women only spaces because the laws they passed prevents them from discriminating.Men are showing up to the Wing and women are pissed
“It’s getting worse. A guy even checked me out a few weeks ago,” says one member.
Ladies, leave your man at home.
The Wing was supposed to be the ultimate sanctuary for women: decidedly feminine in design, with walls and furniture in shades of millennial pink and a thermometer set at a women’s-clothing-friendly 72 degrees. Conference rooms and telephone booths are named after feminist icons like Anita Hill and fictional literary heroines such as Hermione Granger of “Harry Potter” fame. It offers perks that other co-working spaces can’t match — showers stocked with high-end beauty products and events featuring big names such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Critics of the Wing were quick to point out the lack of diversity in the spaces, but the company’s expansion and popularity has brought up a completely different issue that was never expected to arise: straight men wanting to come in and hang out.
Sure, it’s not against the rules for men to be at the lady lair, which costs anywhere from $185 to $250 a month in the US to join. But that’s only because legally the company can’t ban men.
“There’s usually at least one [man] whenever I visit,” says Kaitlin Phillips, 29, a member in New York for the past two years. “It’s bizarre to choose to occupy a space women specifically wanted for themselves. Classic patriarchal entitlement complex.”
The problem, multiple members have told The Post, is that the men physically take up too much space with their bigger bodies and belongings. They hog up the phone booths. And they aren’t respectful of some of the rules, ignoring the four-hour cap on guest visits and bringing in outside food. While they aren’t using the members-only changing rooms and showers (yet), they are in the guest bathrooms.
“At first it was jarring,” says a 30-year-old longtime New York member, who asked to not be named. “It started about a year ago and it’s getting worse. A guy even checked me out a few weeks ago. The whole purpose of the space is to not have to deal with anything like that.”
The Wing, which started with one location in New York in 2016 and has grown to nine locations in seven cities, including a new international outpost in London, never had a membership policy, because, reps say, they didn’t think they’d need one. Instead, they simply billed themselves as a women’s co-working space and social club.
This lack of official paperwork garnered the attention of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in 2018, which opened an investigation into the company. The Wing’s large membership — more than 11,000 worldwide, according to reps — meant it couldn’t pass as a “social club,” and therefore can’t discriminate based on gender. This, coupled with a lawsuit brought by a 53-year-old man earlier this year claiming gender discrimination, led the Wing to formally adopt a membership policy: “The Wing is a space designed for women with a women’s-focused mission. Members and guests are welcome regardless of their perceived gender or gender identity. Recognizing that gender identity is not always consistent with someone’s sex assigned at birth, we do not ask members or guests to self-identify.”
Based on the new policy, the commission confirms to The Post that it dropped its investigation this past summer.
But all of the women The Post spoke to had the same questions: Why would a man want to go to the Wing, anyway? Just because he can? To hit on women? To be a troll? The company’s magazine is called No Man’s Land!
Enlarge ImageVlasta Pilot/BFA.com
Phillips says that she thinks the problem is new members — who may not be as familiar with the original purpose of the space — bringing in men as their guests.
“I think they’re just losers,” she says of the male plus-ones. “Or cucked boyfriends. It’s a legal fluke.”
Up until about a year or so ago, when the space was truly a women-only sanctuary, members said they could comfortably walk around braless in a robe after a shower. Now, they say, they’re constantly looking over their shoulders wondering who the loud dude is chewing his lunch.
Numerous California members tell The Post that the phenomenon is getting out of hand.
“It’s just annoying,” says Caitlin White, a 31-year-old West Hollywood member who sees at least one man working in the space each day. “Why do men need to be there? Why can’t they respect the spirit of the place? Men have to have everything.”
The San Francisco location, numerous members tell The Post, “is really bad — like, filled with tech bros.”
“I usually see about five men coming in throughout the day,” says a 31-year-old San Francisco member who asked to remain anonymous. “I think it’s members bringing in men for investor meetings. Here, everyone is in [venture capital], and men still hold all the money and power. These women are trying to fund their businesses.”
Enlarge ImageAccording to its web site, the Wing is a “growing community of women” who gather to “work, connect, and thrive.”Vlasta Pilot/BFA.com
When she first joined, she says, she made the mistake of bringing in her cis male boss for a meeting, something that she now regrets.
“I’ll never do that again,” she says. “He didn’t respect the space, acting like we were in a coffee shop or something. I was getting looks from other members.”
In New York, of course, the stares are no less subtle.
“I glare at the men and I glare at the members who bring them,” says the anonymous New York member.
White, meanwhile, says that she hopes that the company can work out some sort of happy medium.
“Maybe make it one day a week that men are allowed?” White says. “There has to be a legal way to work this out that still respects the space.”
*surprised pikachu face*
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- Sep 11, 2019
Men are showing up to the Wing and women are pissed
“It’s getting worse. A guy even checked me out a few weeks ago,” says one member.
Ladies, leave your man at home.
The Wing was supposed to be the ultimate sanctuary for women: decidedly feminine in design, with walls and furniture in shades of millennial pink and a thermometer set at a women’s-clothing-friendly 72 degrees. Conference rooms and telephone booths are named after feminist icons like Anita Hill and fictional literary heroines such as Hermione Granger of “Harry Potter” fame. It offers perks that other co-working spaces can’t match — showers stocked with high-end beauty products and events featuring big names such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Critics of the Wing were quick to point out the lack of diversity in the spaces, but the company’s expansion and popularity has brought up a completely different issue that was never expected to arise: straight men wanting to come in and hang out.
Sure, it’s not against the rules for men to be at the lady lair, which costs anywhere from $185 to $250 a month in the US to join. But that’s only because legally the company can’t ban men.
“There’s usually at least one [man] whenever I visit,” says Kaitlin Phillips, 29, a member in New York for the past two years. “It’s bizarre to choose to occupy a space women specifically wanted for themselves. Classic patriarchal entitlement complex.”
The problem, multiple members have told The Post, is that the men physically take up too much space with their bigger bodies and belongings. They hog up the phone booths. And they aren’t respectful of some of the rules, ignoring the four-hour cap on guest visits and bringing in outside food. While they aren’t using the members-only changing rooms and showers (yet), they are in the guest bathrooms.
“At first it was jarring,” says a 30-year-old longtime New York member, who asked to not be named. “It started about a year ago and it’s getting worse. A guy even checked me out a few weeks ago. The whole purpose of the space is to not have to deal with anything like that.”
The Wing, which started with one location in New York in 2016 and has grown to nine locations in seven cities, including a new international outpost in London, never had a membership policy, because, reps say, they didn’t think they’d need one. Instead, they simply billed themselves as a women’s co-working space and social club.
This lack of official paperwork garnered the attention of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in 2018, which opened an investigation into the company. The Wing’s large membership — more than 11,000 worldwide, according to reps — meant it couldn’t pass as a “social club,” and therefore can’t discriminate based on gender. This, coupled with a lawsuit brought by a 53-year-old man earlier this year claiming gender discrimination, led the Wing to formally adopt a membership policy: “The Wing is a space designed for women with a women’s-focused mission. Members and guests are welcome regardless of their perceived gender or gender identity. Recognizing that gender identity is not always consistent with someone’s sex assigned at birth, we do not ask members or guests to self-identify.”
Based on the new policy, the commission confirms to The Post that it dropped its investigation this past summer.
But all of the women The Post spoke to had the same questions: Why would a man want to go to the Wing, anyway? Just because he can? To hit on women? To be a troll? The company’s magazine is called No Man’s Land!
Enlarge ImageVlasta Pilot/BFA.com
Phillips says that she thinks the problem is new members — who may not be as familiar with the original purpose of the space — bringing in men as their guests.
“I think they’re just losers,” she says of the male plus-ones. “Or cucked boyfriends. It’s a legal fluke.”
Up until about a year or so ago, when the space was truly a women-only sanctuary, members said they could comfortably walk around braless in a robe after a shower. Now, they say, they’re constantly looking over their shoulders wondering who the loud dude is chewing his lunch.
Numerous California members tell The Post that the phenomenon is getting out of hand.
“It’s just annoying,” says Caitlin White, a 31-year-old West Hollywood member who sees at least one man working in the space each day. “Why do men need to be there? Why can’t they respect the spirit of the place? Men have to have everything.”
The San Francisco location, numerous members tell The Post, “is really bad — like, filled with tech bros.”
“I usually see about five men coming in throughout the day,” says a 31-year-old San Francisco member who asked to remain anonymous. “I think it’s members bringing in men for investor meetings. Here, everyone is in [venture capital], and men still hold all the money and power. These women are trying to fund their businesses.”
Enlarge ImageAccording to its web site, the Wing is a “growing community of women” who gather to “work, connect, and thrive.”Vlasta Pilot/BFA.com
When she first joined, she says, she made the mistake of bringing in her cis male boss for a meeting, something that she now regrets.
“I’ll never do that again,” she says. “He didn’t respect the space, acting like we were in a coffee shop or something. I was getting looks from other members.”
In New York, of course, the stares are no less subtle.
“I glare at the men and I glare at the members who bring them,” says the anonymous New York member.
White, meanwhile, says that she hopes that the company can work out some sort of happy medium.
“Maybe make it one day a week that men are allowed?” White says. “There has to be a legal way to work this out that still respects the space.”
I love the women's reactions. It's as if they forgot about the last several decades when they used the law as a cudgel to force themselves into male spaces.
"Like, wtf even? Don't they know this is a woman's space? Why do they even want to be in here?"
Why? Because revenge is a dish best served ice-cold.
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2018
File this under "White Girls Fuck Dogs"
people.com
"On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a notice to dog lovers as well as the rest of the general public about 30 cases of people becoming ill in 13 U.S. states. The reported sicknesses, which have thus far resulted in four hospitalizations and zero deaths, are believed to be linked to those who had recently come in contact with puppies.
Some of the states impacted include Minnesota, Ohio, Nevada, Utah and Kentucky, according to the report.
Comparing the current situation to a similar multi-state outbreak between 2016 and 2018, the CDC believes the culprit behind the infections is Campylobacter bacteria, which can be carried by dogs that otherwise seem healthy and clean.
To prevent catching the illness, the CDC suggests thoroughly washing one’s hands after touching a dog, and also after cleaning up after the animals. It is also recommended to not let pups lick around a person’s face or mouth, as well as any open wounds or broken skin.
Noticeable indicators of a puppy carrying the illness include an apparent sluggishness, lack of appetite and abnormal breathing, says the CDC. Symptoms among humans include bloody diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps, lasting for about one week and often treatable with antibiotics in severe instances."
Puppies Might Be Responsible for Making Dozens of People Sick in 13 States, CDC Says
Campylobacter infections are believed to be the reason for the outbreak, thought to be brought on by interacting with pet store puppies, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a notice to dog lovers as well as the rest of the general public about 30 cases of people becoming ill in 13 U.S. states. The reported sicknesses, which have thus far resulted in four hospitalizations and zero deaths, are believed to be linked to those who had recently come in contact with puppies.
Some of the states impacted include Minnesota, Ohio, Nevada, Utah and Kentucky, according to the report.
Comparing the current situation to a similar multi-state outbreak between 2016 and 2018, the CDC believes the culprit behind the infections is Campylobacter bacteria, which can be carried by dogs that otherwise seem healthy and clean.
To prevent catching the illness, the CDC suggests thoroughly washing one’s hands after touching a dog, and also after cleaning up after the animals. It is also recommended to not let pups lick around a person’s face or mouth, as well as any open wounds or broken skin.
Noticeable indicators of a puppy carrying the illness include an apparent sluggishness, lack of appetite and abnormal breathing, says the CDC. Symptoms among humans include bloody diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps, lasting for about one week and often treatable with antibiotics in severe instances."
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2018
I gotta say I admire these men more than troons, because these men have the balls to show up as a man instead of being a rat who says "hello yes im real wemon, you have to let me in because im real wemon"
Cat Menagerie
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- Joined
- Nov 2, 2018
DOC: “The Innocent Man”‘s Karl Fontenot has been released
ADA, Okla. (KFOR) – Officials with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections confirms the man who was convicted in a controversial murder case has been released from their custody. The 1984 murder cas…
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