Mandatory Mangina Training at the office

[MOWsince95Participant 1446]

So we move to a new office space yesterday, and immediately I go about seeing how I can make this new cookie-cutter prefab’d environment fit my workstyle.  This usually involves rebuilding half the crap they’ve installed.

I bring in tools this morning, and go about it. Took an hour, looks good, much more functional and comfortable to me.  A female colleague (cute, granted, but I don’t give a s~~~) looks in and sees it and comments “wow, this is nice!  Why don’t you come over and do this to my space?”

• I reply “No. I have things to do.”
• She: “maybe later then. I really like this set up.“
• I: “No. Am sure you can do it yourself. You don’t need me for this.“
• She: “But you’re the guy. You’re supposed to do these things.“

Now, to be sure, I agree there are things men do better or more efficiently, but imagine if I had ever said to her “but you’re the woman. You’re supposed to get me a cup of coffee.”  You think that bitch wouldn’t flip her skankhole and report me to HR who will then either fire me or make me take some Mandatory Mangina “Senthitivity” Training?  F~~~in’ bitch – thing is if a guy reports this s~~~, he’ll be crapped upon till he quits.  As it is I told her to leave my office and do her stuff herself, but not involve me unless if is relevant to my job.

If you are MGTOW when you are young you have no heart.
If you're not MGTOW when you are 20 you have no brain.

[RoyDalParticipant]

She is a strong, independent woman. She’ll get her boyfriend to do it this Saturday.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[BrainPilotParticipant 7640]

Like most of us here, I’ve many times heard that line, “Your the guy so you’re supposed to ____________”.  (Fill in this gap with any of the duties of a butler, chauffeur, janitor, body guard, carpenter, plumber, electrician, computer specialist, or daddy/financier.

I’ve been trying to come up with some quip to respond that would simultaneously indicate clear refusal, illustrate the arrogance and insult that is actually  contained in their remark, while simultaneously being sufficiently polite that they can’t misconstrue it as confrontational and play the oppressed/threatened victim card.

I’m having a difficult time coming up with it.  I like your response, but don’t think I could pull that off in a tone that would not be confrontational and risk the fallout of it.  The best I’ve been able to do with that is with a  girl I’ve been seeing who occasionally s~~~-tests me by spontaneously asking for these little favors… in a tone that drifts into that gray area where the distinction between a request and a command starts to blur.  I’m not even certain that she does it consciously.  I think it’s equally likely that it’s just so deeply ingrained in the nature of women that they do it without even realizing it.  She started with it the other day and I just got silent and motionless in response, slowly looking down at my chest and back and forth to each of my arms as if examining my clothes, and said, “I’m not wearing my butler suit today dear, so I don’t understand how you got me confused with one… But I’m the boyfriend you are trying to keep, not the butler you already have… Are we all clear on this now?”.  She sort of giggled and smiled nervously while being unable to make eye contact and changing the subject as fast as she could think of one.

Clearly it was a s~~~ test.  And clearly, I passed it as she demonstrated in her x-rated approval shortly after.  But it p~~~ed me off.  The whole stupid, immature idea of it p~~~ed me off, and the tone of my response would not have been appropriate in a professional situation (too sarcastic at the very least).  I don’t think I would have been able to pull off a non-confrontational tone in your situation.

 

 

Look, it's not my fault that tornado dropped a house on your sister. Now get back on your broom and get your ass out of here... and take your monkeys with you

[KeymasterKeymaster]

BrainPilot wrote:

I’ve been trying to come up with some quip to respond that would simultaneously indicate clear refusal, illustrate the arrogance and insult that is actually  contained in their remark, while simultaneously being sufficiently polite that they can’t misconstrue it as confrontational and play the oppressed/threatened victim card.

“The only thing I am supposed to do is pay taxes and die”.

When talking to a bitch like this, I would use the word “required”.
I would even enjoy saying it while looking her straight in the eye.

She won’t know what to do with that. Women are simply not prepared for that level of reality. That kind of thought doesn’t even enter the tiny transom of her mind. She waltzes through life thinking you’re “supposed” to do whatever she wants and expects, but tell her you know nothing is man-datory except taxes and death, and she will spontaneously combust. And, she can’t nail you on it.

Imagine if a man said: “but you’re the woman, you’re SUPPOSED to bend over and shut the f~~~ up”.

It’s just as preposterous.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[BritGHOWParticipant 2566]

Evening Brain,

Sure, my rate for that kind of work is XX.XX an hour, as soon as you get HR to approve the overtime I’ll get right on it. Then if she’s actually stupid enough to approach HR and they to approve it instead of laughing her arse out of the office make sure it takes twice as long to do.

[– Deleted on Request –Spectator 936]

It isn’t just women who behave like that.

 

I’ve had supervisors who thought that, in addition to doing my job, I was their personal servants and should fetch and carry for them whenever they had a task they were too lazy or inept to do themselves.  At the place where I used to teach, my assistant department head dumped anything he didn’t want to do on my desk.  I guess sitting on his butt and playing solitaire on the computer was considered to be more essential.

 

One way of never being asked to do something like that again is to do what one has been assigned so badly that someone else would be approached next time.

 

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