I took a few days to think about what this said about our society. I came up with several thoughts. One, I wonder if it had been a woman who had dressed up in the "gossip" bridle would men have been as comfortable with the comments? Or would it have generated even more? Second, after watching a recent episode of the Apprentice (okay, a guilty pleasure) where the teams are split between men and women and the women's team lost so they had to go to the boardroom for someone to get fired, the men got to watch via tv.The comments which came from those men were "oh now we are going to see a catfight". Yet if the roles had been reversed what would have been the corresponding comment which the women could have directed at the group of men? Hint...there isn't a generalization like that for a group of men. This led me back to Dr. Gajdo's experience at Chadds Ford Days. I would like to believe we have evolved in our human "be-ingness" but sadly I wonder how much we truly understand one another and what is it within each of our own minds and hearts which allows the comments and behavior of these men at Chadd Ford Days to think it was okay. It doesn't matter if it was under the guse of humor, it was in incredibly poor taste. And I won't even start on the man who dressed up with the "gossip" brindle...
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