# Disadvantage for Certain Men in Workplace **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disadvantage-for-certain-men-in-workplace/748686 "2016-03-11T19:57:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disadvantage-for-certain-men-in-workplace/748686/1 "2016-03-11T19:57:27Z")
Inspired by my previous thread about privilege and disadvantages, I thought I would let you all know the [major disadvantage](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3352065/Why-handsome-bad-man-s-career-Good-looking-gents-seen-threat-bosses-meaning-likely-jobs.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490) that I have had to work under my entire life. In my next job, I’m going to ask for all female interviewers. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disadvantage-for-certain-men-in-workplace/748686/2 "2016-03-11T20:43:21Z")
This explains everything! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disadvantage-for-certain-men-in-workplace/748686/3 "2016-03-11T20:49:20Z")
This only makes me realize how much worse my life could have been if I had been handsome. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disadvantage-for-certain-men-in-workplace/748686/4 "2016-03-11T21:42:13Z")
Bill Clinton feels your pain. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disadvantage-for-certain-men-in-workplace/748686/5 "2016-03-11T22:27:55Z")
Then why the heck do I keep getting laid off? You’d think I’d be unfireable. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disadvantage-for-certain-men-in-workplace/748686/6 "2016-03-12T01:19:24Z")
Everyone I worked for in LA was gay. Last job, we had a saying. Sexual discrimination doesn’t work that was around here. True story. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disadvantage-for-certain-men-in-workplace/748686/7 "2016-03-12T04:42:12Z")
It’s bad enough as a tall-ish, athletic man with a full head of hair in his 40s, I have to endure constant slurs like “McDreamy”, “Richard Gere”, and “wassup Justin Trudeau, handsome Prime Minister of Canada”. Now my dream job of schmoozing with clients, flirting with cute vendor reps and not doing much actual real work is in jeopardy? I thought those 26 year old analysts at work were just talking my ear off because they were trying to suck up to a more senior manager. But now I’m worried it might be because they are ATTRACTED to me! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disadvantage-for-certain-men-in-workplace/748686/8 "2016-03-12T04:52:56Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > **It’s bad enough as a tall-ish, athletic man with a full head of hair in his 40s,** I have to endure constant slurs like “McDreamy”, “Richard Gere”, and “wassup Justin Trudeau, handsome Prime Minister of Canada”. Now my dream job of schmoozing with clients, flirting with cute vendor reps and not doing much actual real work is in jeopardy? Your username… It’s not “ms smith”. I get that now. :smack: