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Dear Good Job,

I work in a progressive public school in a small department where I am the only man. Much of my time is spent in meetings where there is an ever-present thread of, quite frankly, misandrist commentary.

Each day involves some slight against men, from dismissing a sociology paper as a “typical white, male argument” or condescending that men are incapable of child care without constant supervision, to lamenting that they can’t live without men altogether. There’s no consideration that half the things they say would be disciplineable offenses if they swapped “male” out with almost any other group of people.

I try to

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