Jobma for you, beth!

hello my dears! I've spent close to three months on probation at work and have been trying to stay off the internet. But I've been cleared and, since things are kind of slow today, I'm back! I've missed a lot, but it's good to see your pixels again.

TODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!1

tackle hugs Todd

oof! glad to see you too!

Toddson! I had wondered where you were! Great to see you back! And congrats on getting through probation.

Glam, Shane just gets cuter and cuter.

beth, I SO hope you get this.

Todd! Missed you. Glad you're back.

Shanie! GC, that's an adorable monkey you have there.

That's a wonderful story, Windsparrow.

Shir, I know it's difficult, but you're doing valuable work.

I wish Connie would post--if not here then in Beep me.

Shir, I do wish I could read Hebrew. It sounds like you're pioneering the issue of street harassment - and what you experienced is a lot more than harassment - and you're going to run into a lot of what you're experiencing. I know here, where the "hollaback" sites have been in existence for a while and the issue of street harassment has been discussed, there's still a fair amount of denial, minimizing, and so on. Not to discourage you - it's an issue that deserves to be addressed - but a lot of people see it from the point that it's always been this way and if you'd "just" (do whatever they suggest to eliminate the problem) it'd stop. But you know, no matter how you're dressed, how you act, many too many people see the fact of being a woman an open invitation to be harassed (although they don't see it as harassment). Case in point - at a previous job, I frequently worked quite late. Our office was near where there were prostitutes. I'd be bundled up in a winter coat, boots, hat, scarf, standing at a bus stop and I'd get men stopping to ask if I wanted to party ... then yelling obscenities at me when I wasn't for sale (or even rent). It got scary at times - you never know when someone's not going to take that "rejection" as incitement to physically attack you.

Dang GC, that weeble of yours is soooo cute! His dimples are so tasty I could eat them.

Plus the whole issue of religious based harassment/assault, to try an enforce a modesty code that is neither legally required nor part of the culture of a majority of Israeli's - in addition to "normal" harassment.

Heh, I sent my mom an email asking if she wants to go halvsies on a family membership to the OC museum of art. She hasn't written me back and I was just thinking it's odd so I emailed, "Are you alive? Is everything OK? Why haven't you written?"

Shir, I wrote you a supportive post and it got eaten. Suffice it to say that you are a star and don't worry about people who don't 'get' it. And The Girl says a Hollaback-type site has started in Egypt and wondered if you knew about it. And did I mention you are a star?