How can you smell money passed cumin? Cumin has a really strong smell. Although I do imagine they'd go decently together.

Dr Horrible taught me on his blog that translocated gold smells like cumin!

You, sir, make me sick. A women in today's society is almost forced to wear make up and dress nice (preferably some cleavage) to be accepted - otherwise she's be 'ugly'. The punch line is that you would either have to be 'ugly' or be branded a '****'. The fact that you think the sexual harassment is her fault, shows how little you think of women. They're not objects you can use for your own pleasure if they LOOK like they want to be toyed around with. I don't look down on many people, but you, sir, are one of them. Congratulations. I hope you feel happy.

I've read too many blogs, comments etc. that would say something like that and mean it. It's hard to distinguish the people being serious from the sarcastic ones, since some people are serious. Too many of them. Eg. rape victims being branded '*****' and losing everything, or not being believed. But I get it, this is not the place for such serious matters. Sorry for being a partypooper :) Edit: or irony. Same explanation. It happens.

#32 stop it with your backwards logic. My office manager is FAT not phat. BUT I love her, respect her and value how much she helps me on a daily basis. Women dont need to do make up. They dont need to impress their co-workers by wearing it. They dont need to be "branded" one thing or another as you would say. People are shallow, the sooner you realize that the sooner you can go on with your life at your OWN pace. It't not about what others think. Women dont have it any harder than guys do at work in todays standard, women have balls now days. We all have problems and insecurities. The people harassing most of the time have more than the people being harassed. It's the weak people who complain, that we need to be worried about

#45, so, does that mean you don't look down on me anymore? Should I be sad now that I've been kicked out of that elite group? I was so happy that I was special in your book.

#47 It's not because you are someone who can look past the superficial, that everyone can. I know it's superficial, and I know I am superficial in some ways as well, but being a woman can be hard - harder than being a man (on some points. Of course, men have other problems as well). Some women have balls, some women are weak, some of them have balls but still don't feel quite right. I feel the society is still not 'safe', to use such a strong word, but it's okay if you disagree. #48 I look down on the people that seriously think the way I thought you did, because they exist. It's been a subject I've been 'researching' a lot lately, and it does get me mad often. I know it's a typical response of the 'raging feminist', and I don't like being that way, but I do feel there is a problem concerning the matter.

@Perdix - Let us say, for example, that you had spent your life being mocked for having a big nose. And that people were cruel in this mocking, and then others said "yeah but you kind of deserve being mocked because you have a big nose". And this happens all your life. And then some arsehole comes along with "Haha, you have a ginornmous nose, I'm amazed you haven't smashed it against a window because it's so huge!" (I'm not good at intentional meanness.) It doesn't matter if the person is being sarcastic or ironic, you're still gonna be pissed off and upset and I wouldn't be surprised if you punched them in the face, really. (Actually, being 'ironic' makes it worse because that means "yeah, I know the shit I'm spouting is bad, but I'm going to say it anyway, your feelings be damned!") @Dilwann - You are perfectly right to get angry, this stuff is bad.

The way I see it, women don't have to show cleavage to be considered pretty. If a woman is showing cleavage in the work place, no shit she's gonna be visually harassed. You have them out like a picture, as a female, I'm even gonna look. If you wear short skirts and bend over an your ass is showing, well I'm gonna be looking at that too. And the whole time I'm going to be thinking. 'Wow. This woman obviously doesn't have brains to work her way up in the work place, so she's gotta show her goodies so the boss wants to promote her to his floor so he can stare! Boy do I feel bad for her when she gets old'

#55 Being a women is only harder than being a man in the sense that you have 8 pounds come out of your ******. I will never know that agony. You create and continue to reinforce this stigma that women have it harder. In some work environments I would agree. Women probably get more harassed when they are a fire fighter. Why? Because they physically can not carry a 230 pound man out of a burning building. They are taking the position away from a man who is more than physically capable of doing the job better. All for equality. In an office environment women are in charge a lot of the time. The CEO of Google is a women. Many head political figures for our country are women. The more you continue to place women in the different bracket the longer conversations like this will occur. There are a lot of asshole men out there. There are also a lot of asshole women out there. At the end of the day, it comes down to ones self. If you're not happy with something. Change it. It's such a simple fix.

But even women with brains have a much harder time climbing up the corporate ladder. And I don't include 'looking' in the sexual harassment sector.

And I understand that you don't know how hard it is to hold up to the beauty standards, for one. And I'd like to change things, yes. But what can I do to the guys that yell 'hey hottie, wanna go home with me?' in the street? Men that slap asses and make sexual remarks? It doesn't sound bad, but it doesn't create a nice environment. Also, because the CEO of Google is a woman, doesn't suddenly mean that there's equality in every workplace.

I'm still not sure why people are assuming OP is female. It's listed as anonymous with no gender selected. Does this mean that men can't be sexually harassed in the workplace?

Of course men can be sexually harassed. It's just 'safe to assume' it's a woman being harassed by a man, because that's the case most of the time. But of course men can be harassed, both by men and women. I just think it both happens less, and there's a lesser chance of it being reported. But I can't validate those claims, it's just a guess.

#67 absolute and utter horseshit. April 9th is Equal payday. That's how much into 2013 that women had to work to earn the same pay that men got in 2012. On FTSE 100 companies, boards are made up of 87.5% of men, 12.5% are women. Things are getting better, but to simply pretend that the glass ceiling doesn't still exist is only going to add to the problem. And your example of firefighters? The imaginary woman you spoke of may not be able to carry a 230lb man down a ladder, but maybe she can fit into a gap to save a child that a bigger man couldn't, everyone has their skills and uses.

Holy shit! I make a silly little joke and everyone turns it into a federal case. CTFD! By the way, the CEO of Google is still male -- perhaps you mean the CEO of Yahoo?

@67 I don't know that citing outlier statistics about women in the workplace is a good way to show womens advancement in todays (western) society. Women still make only 70 cents to mens dollar. Women are still expected to be the primary care giver at home even if they might be the bread winner in the work place. If you're in a business situation with a woman manager and a man, the chances are overwhelming that the people they interact with will talk to the man and ignore the women until someone lets them know the woman is in charge, and even then they might still talk to the man. I've seen this personally so many times.

Pretty sure my gf makes the same amount of money her male counterparts do, actually i know she does....and she has the same task at work. These women firefighters are not imaginary either...they are real..and they are taking positions of men who deserve it. a women is not much smaller than a man in size, but the difference in physical strength is tremendous. With her gear on, there isn't a lot of small places she could fit. Having women on a fire force makes for a more equal work environment, It does not make these 'imaginary little kids stuck in a tight place' more safe. Take your percentages elsewhere lady.

I think the old CFO of google was a women for a while Perdix, they must have fired her for not showing enough boobage, or she wasnt wearing make-up. It was google though, years ago

Haha I'm so sorry the percentages I quoted (which are easily verifiable btw) don't sit well with your odd view of sexism in the workplace, which you have so far produced no facts to back up, just a lot of imaginary situations slating female firefighters. And don't call me lady like that, it makes you sound like a real chauvinist pig...

As a victim, you can sue their ******* pants off. Excuse the pun. But according to US law, the employer is responsible if one employee is harassing another.