The part that hit me the most was the very end.
It wasn’t the same old, “I’m (insert name here) and I approve this message.” It was something that was actually relevant to the ad and reached out to people who can think for themselves.
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There’s a Kite Festival this Saturday at the National Mall in DC.
I went one of these years that I’ve been out here and it’s kinda amazing. Kites were everywhere! And I didn’t see anyone get there’s tangled up. I took pictures but just spent 30 minutes looking for them but couldn’t find any. I ended up going through a ton of my old pictures and found old ones from college. I found pictures that I took when I worked at a lab where I did face detection experiments using 3D cameras with lasers on them. I saw how I used to be skinny my last year or so in college then I plumped up when I first moved to DC. And I used to think I was sexy. Nobody told me otherwise though. It’s all mostly about what’s on the inside. I think I’m getting off track though.
Back to the Kite Festival. I guess that’s all I have to say about that. Oh wait!
They have a kite competition too. I don’t know how they win though. It’s probably all on their website .
Hope to see you there. I’ll be the guy acting like it’s not 55 degrees out there with the digicam and the 35mm camera taking pictures with people’s dogs while yelling at the kids to make their kite go higher!!!
Now you know what time it is!
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I read this post about sexism yesterday and it reminded me of a story told to me by a girl I know.
This story was about her conversation with a guy in the HR department with some company. This company wanted her for an internship position this summer.
This HR guy was telling her the locations that this mediocre company had to offer. They featured Lansing, Michigan, somewhere in Ohio, someplace overseas, and somewhere else. The guy asked her which location would she be interested in.
She knew she didn’t want to go to Ohio because she had in internship in Ohio last summer. She didn’t really want to go to Lansing, Michigan because she’s from Michigan and because Lansing isn’t anything special. But she also didn’t want to be counted out because she didn’t want to go to those locations.
She told the HR guy that she had no preference and it didn’t matter which location she was offered.
The HR guy said, “Yeah I guess as long as there’s a mall around huh (chuckle chuckle).”
She didn’t like that at all and decided that she wouldn’t have any dealings with that company.
When she talked to me about it, I told her it’s smart for her to leave that company alone. If they’ll make those sexist jokes now when they’re trying to recruit her, it’ll only get worse once she’s locked in for a summer and has to take it or be labeled as that angry black chick.
Do you think that was a sexist comment and was a sign of things to come? Or do you think it wasn’t that bad and she should’ve taken the internship?
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We all know someone who does this. It’s basically when someone gives you their negative opinion on someone or something before you have a chance to make your own impression of them. Their opinion ends up tainting yours when you do eventually make one because it has been poisoned by their assessment. Often, their negative opinion is a lie used to discredit anything else they say. Politicians use this on their competitors.
It’s useful for us when you don’t want one of your friends to get too close to someone that you hang out with but don’t really like too well. For example, if you want to warn someone of a person’s ability to take their conversations away with them (they talk too much). That way, they know not to get too involved with any topic with them unless they want to spend way too long hearing about it.
Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
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