# A note to men in the newspaper business: if your boss is the feminist Jill Abramson, you may be.. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 15, 2014, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-men-in-the-newspaper-business-if-your-boss-is-the-feminist-jill-abramson-you-may-be/688511 "2014-05-15T07:02:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-men-in-the-newspaper-business-if-your-boss-is-the-feminist-jill-abramson-you-may-be/688511/41 "2014-05-18T14:20:46Z")
The OP forgot [this photo](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://beta.congress.gov/img/member/112_sr_ky_mcconnell_mitch.jpg&imgrefurl=http://beta.congress.gov/member/mitch-mcconnell/1395&h=248&w=203&tbnid=VaqFtuVpWC1sWM:&zoom=1&tbnh=186&tbnw=152&usg=__kJJe4RABdfZSt3zXH5aw-lnu1ug=&docid=Xqhshdq2S4GiGM&itg=1&sa=X&ei=OcF4U-OQN4buoASToYH4CA&ved=0CKwBEPwdMA8). ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-men-in-the-newspaper-business-if-your-boss-is-the-feminist-jill-abramson-you-may-be/688511/42 "2014-05-18T18:17:36Z")
Okay, I’ve held my tongue so far. Now that someone else has posted a link to a photo of a person who apparently resembles a member of the order Chelonii, I must speak out. My (somewhat matriarchal) tribe and people **revere** turtles. There. (We don’t use headdresses. That’s the Plains Indians. So, no, before you ask, Mitch doesn’t get an honorary one. From us.) ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-men-in-the-newspaper-business-if-your-boss-is-the-feminist-jill-abramson-you-may-be/688511/43 "2014-05-18T18:53:06Z")
_De chelonian mobile._ “The McConnell moves.” ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-men-in-the-newspaper-business-if-your-boss-is-the-feminist-jill-abramson-you-may-be/688511/44 "2014-05-18T19:47:37Z")
Hey, OP there are other possible explanations why some hires/promotions don’t work out. I discovered I wasn’t very good at, and didn’t like, middle management even though I was good at the “lower” position. Something you might want to keep in mind if they offer to promote you from “Fries” to “Front Counter”. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-men-in-the-newspaper-business-if-your-boss-is-the-feminist-jill-abramson-you-may-be/688511/45 "2014-05-19T15:42:12Z")
From what I’ve read she treated both men and women with equal arrogance and disrespect. She’s not a feminazi, she just doesn’t handle subordinates well. As Pope wrote of the Duchess of Marlborough: _“Superiors? Death! And equals? What a curse! But an inferior not dependent? Worse!”_ ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-men-in-the-newspaper-business-if-your-boss-is-the-feminist-jill-abramson-you-may-be/688511/46 "2014-05-19T22:24:09Z")
So, how did Abramson accomplish this supposed personal Affirmative Action program anyway? Did she have “binders full of women”, like Mitt Romney’s people? ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-men-in-the-newspaper-business-if-your-boss-is-the-feminist-jill-abramson-you-may-be/688511/47 "2014-05-20T00:35:30Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > All the men I know who hate women are failures. Quoted for fundamental truth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-men-in-the-newspaper-business-if-your-boss-is-the-feminist-jill-abramson-you-may-be/688511.md?page=2)