Women can be sexists, too, you know.

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One of my female coworkers just circulated a warning about fires at gas pumps. (It's a photocopy from something, but I'm not sure what.) It warns that almost all fires at filling stations involve women and that some number of these involve people driving away while the nozzle is still in the tank, and it basically says "be alert and warn all your friends". She sent this around to women only, with the note "Gals: please read!".

I find that I am highly offended by her behavior. (This is not a comment on the author of the report; I'm only talking about the coworker here.)

Now, for all I know the coworker might be the kind of clueless airhead who might do something like this; I don't know her well enough to say. But for her to judge that her female coworkers, but not her male coworkers, would do something like this is just plain rude. Just what was she thinking??

I have several entertaining fantasies about appropriate things to forward to her in return, but they will stay safely in my head.

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Women can be sexist, Black people can be racist, pagans can be religiously intolerant, and so on. Argh, it's always depressing, and never surprising.

I don't know what I'd do in your position. Smacking her in the head with a hardcover copy of Sojourner Truth's autobiography is tempting but in the end inadviseable.