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01-02-2018, 07:51 PM
Train company responds to woman's complaint about sexist behaviour with, uh, more sexism
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Heads up, companies: when a woman makes a complaint about the misogynist behaviour of a male employee, take her seriously.*
Sadly, this isn't what happened when a woman complained to a UK train company about the dismissive and patronising conduct of one of their train conductors. Instead, her complaint was met with a snarky and completely tone deaf response.*
SEE ALSO: Watch 11-year-old Meghan Markle protesting a sexist ad on TV (http://mashable.com/2017/12/01/meghan-markle-sexist-ad/)
Emily Lucinda Cole tweeted a complaint to Virgin Trains East Coast that an older male train manager dismissed her in a "patronising" way, calling her "honey."*
When virgin trains mess up and the older male train manager in the resulting conversation dismisses you with that hideously patronising word women shudder at in contexts such as these: "honey" @virgin_trainsEC (https://twitter.com/Virgin_TrainsEC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).
— Emily Lucinda Cole (@EmilyLucindaRC) January 2, 2018 (https://twitter.com/EmilyLucindaRC/status/948115433885970432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/02/virgin-trains-sexist-tweet/)
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Heads up, companies: when a woman makes a complaint about the misogynist behaviour of a male employee, take her seriously.*
Sadly, this isn't what happened when a woman complained to a UK train company about the dismissive and patronising conduct of one of their train conductors. Instead, her complaint was met with a snarky and completely tone deaf response.*
SEE ALSO: Watch 11-year-old Meghan Markle protesting a sexist ad on TV (http://mashable.com/2017/12/01/meghan-markle-sexist-ad/)
Emily Lucinda Cole tweeted a complaint to Virgin Trains East Coast that an older male train manager dismissed her in a "patronising" way, calling her "honey."*
When virgin trains mess up and the older male train manager in the resulting conversation dismisses you with that hideously patronising word women shudder at in contexts such as these: "honey" @virgin_trainsEC (https://twitter.com/Virgin_TrainsEC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).
— Emily Lucinda Cole (@EmilyLucindaRC) January 2, 2018 (https://twitter.com/EmilyLucindaRC/status/948115433885970432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/02/virgin-trains-sexist-tweet/)
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