I have even been on jobs where co-workers were threatening to throw “blanket parties” where there is a group beating of a boss, to drive home their twisted point of view. Some people who I worked with, and for, actually are now in jail for murder, rape, torture, spousal abuse, and child molestation, so I have much more than an intellectual relationship with Toxic Masculinity, especially in the workplace. Several jobs that I have been on, men have threatened their wives with harm, or actually have brought harm to them, and I suspect one of them of killing his own ex-wife, who died mysteriously. Women are referred to as “bitches” or “cunts”, sometimes by leaders on various job sites, and the demeaning attitudes are repulsive and disgusting to me. One job on the campus of Portland Community College, the General Foreman allowed a gun dealer to actually bring and sell weapons in the job trailer while we were at work, which is just plain stupid, felonious male behavior. I have had to confront several gun crazy men over my years on the job, and I have taken much heat because of it. I have also confronted gay bashing men and self-righteous religious fundamentalists, and, at times, I had grown weary of sweeping the mental streets clean of the garbage that they indiscriminately spread around in heaps
Introduction and Conclusion, Part One July 6, 2018
Conspiracy of Silence —-(definition from Wikipedia) An agreement, either formal or tacit, between two or more parties not to discuss some matter nor to reveal any information concerning it, especially in order to avoid blame, Read more
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