Amanda on "sensitivity training" →
There’s something sad, but also kind of hopeful, about a boomer who deploys a “sensitivity training” joke when called on some sexist bullshit. There exists in the history of work a specific place and time where a fancy guy could live out his days engaging in lazy sexism until some loathsome bureaucrat stuck him in a room and made him a watch a poorly-acted VHS tape about not talking about people’s butts. The people I work with don’t need to take sensitivity training to not be sexist because we work with women, work for women, bowl with women, crush beers with women, learn from women, fight with women. We argue with one another about sexism and racism and Chris Brown and Prop 8 and rape and sex and blackface and Juggalos and all of the hard things not to satisfy some legal or professional obligation but because our differences interest and fascinate us. We want to diversify our workplace more and more and more not because it satisfies some quota or looks good on the masthead but because it is far less dull this way. Sometimes we fuck up. We call each other out on it. And then it is crushed under the weight of a thousand beers. The ranks of the sensitivity-trained will not run this town forever. We are here to make sure of that.
…and our favorite topic, “Why Boomers supersuck.”
