Saturday, 07 November 2009
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Scuttle: Why Grandpa Is Sexist
It's funny what you come across. From my Navy years, I knew the term "scuttle" to mean a small opening or escape. (In Hawaii, we would say puka - "poo-ka.") The related term "scuttlebutt" was sailor slang for gossip.
The following is from a Time Magazine review of a biography on Helen Gurley Brown:
"What's a girl to do when she encounters sexual harassment in the office? If she's a Cosmo girl, she apparently should think twice before becoming offended. Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and tireless doyenne of social advice, believes there's still a place for "sexual chemistry" in the workplace.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, Brown fondly recalled working at a Los Angeles radio station during the late 1940s and early '50s. Her male co-workers, wrote Brown, played a 'dandy game called 'Scuttle' . . . (the men) would select a secretary, chase her down the halls . . . catch her and take her panties off. Nothing wicked ever happened.'"
According to the author, everyone enjoyed the pursuit and "no scuttler was ever reported to the front office. Au contraire, the girls wore their prettiest panties to work." Brown professed shock that modern girls would disagree with her notions of what constitutes a playful professional pastime.
Apparently, there is less bold variation of this game where men place bets on the color of the woman's panties, and then chase her and flip up her skirt. I gather there are still working women who find that to be a "playful professional pastime."
At my workplace, the guy would be fired so fast he'd be on the street before the woman's skirt hem was back at her knees. But maybe that's just my work environment.
Whatever the case ... this brings a whole new definition to "Scuttle Butt."
Can you believe there was ever a place out there where "scuttling" would be considered a "playful professional pastime?"
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There are no women at my work place I would want to play "Scuttlebutt" with.
Nice pic though.
Holy shit. Really, that's about all I can say to this. And not in the "Holy shit, I wish I could do that" kind of way, but a "I can't believe guys can do that without having they're nuts legally removed by a judge" way.
Any man who did this today with anyone other than the office chick he happened to be fucking, would be fired, taken to court, found guilty, put in the sex offenders database, and possibly spend time in jail.
I don't really think that this kind of game is "right", I guess. I mean, if the girls are cool with it, then hey,whatever floats your boat, but I'd never attempt anything like this without prior talk of it with the girl in question. I'd prefer to stick to conversational flirting and the subtler ways of things.
damn i want to work where they work! that game sounds like so much fun, hahaha, guess the color. fastforward a couple decades and SLAP + lawsuit.
Yep, that is now considered sexual assault. As it should be! I can't believe that used to be the norm D: taking girls' panties off at work is NOT ok
@mcmeister89 - agreed.
holy freaking hell; that's not cool. (though part of me wants those losers to try and chase me so i could pwn their pervy asses. guess i'll bring track shoes.)
Hell yeah I believe it. They didn't have X box or youtube back in the days. Shit, I'd probably be doing the same thing if I was in the 50's
Well back then, there were less overweight women. So. That must've been great, supposing that the men were all good-looking. But still, WTF. That's kid-stuff right there!
he would chase her down and then get her panties? Would she take them off willingly if she was caught, or would he "wrestle" them off her? sorry, seems demeaning.that doesn't seem right for the workplace.
it would be a cool game to play an "adult" party though. I remember me and my boyfriend played tag/hide-n-seek in a store once - it was so much fun! the chasing plus something naughty would be even more exciting. and if you were drunk? damn, what a chill party that would be...
Well that's unprofessional. Play it on your own time with willing participants, but that has no place in an office.
It was the 40's and 50's. Women had entered the workforce, but still had no rights. Hearing that makes me want to cry. I mean I knew women were degraded in the 40's and 50's especially in the workplace, but I had no idea it was that bad. Why would they report to front office? In the 40's and 50's if a woman complained at work it did more harm than good.
Wow.. I wanna do that. *wears a beard to work to look like a man* LOL
I'm not too surprised...I think its kind of funny. It's not like they were being raped or something, and unless I read wrong it said they all enjoyed it.
I have enough problems with our resident pervert at work hitting on me IN FRONT OF MY BOYFRIEND, who I also work with.
Hahaaha!
As many moral points as there are to be made, all I can do is laugh
This seems to contradict what I thought of the past... There are boundaries but they are determined by us. If everyone thinks it is acceptable than it is acceptable. Right/wrong, yes/no,1/0. Except ones and zeros tend to be more absolute and actually is a precursor for determining values.
I wouldn't be surprised if games like this took a turn of gender roles in this day and age...
What the hell are women doing in the workplace in the first place? I didn't think you could fit an office building inside the kitchen..
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