You are men who make jokes about women and this is true of so called professional organisations.
You will never understand how the average women can be degraded, and her life in a work setting can be made hell.
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I understand where you are coming from Lizzie but if you worked in the automotive industry years ago the women in the Trim Shop were absolute animals. The Trim Shop was a separate area for making the car seats and when a machine broke down some poor young maintenance guy would have to go in there to fix it. He would be groped, mauled and ridiculed, which might seem a laugh to begin with but soon wore thin. What could the guys do, if they reported it they would get laughed at, so it continued for years, with the women having their own little game.
You can imagine what would happen if the situation was the other way around and a guy stuck his hand between one of their legs.
I recall as a grad my first visit to New Century Park in Coventry (GPTs Telemcoms electronics factory, prior to this it was a car factory, now demolished and has a new Lear (automotive) factory making seats).
Myself and Simon Johnson had to go there for a meeting with the AME team, whilst I was talking to one of them, Simon popped over to stores to pick up some components.
I still remember him getting half way across the assembly floor and there was a shout of 'fresh meat', poor lad was stark bolluck naked in seconds when this group of women (there were no men on the assembly floor) had finished. All quite amusing, he took it very well but, from then on in took the long way round to stores.
You constantly got groped and abused but, it was part of the way there and meant little
As you developed you soon got to know a few of the workers and got quite a rapor up, full on banter, give and take............you also discovered how you could get your jobs up the assembly line que with a multipack of mars bars!