Do any men deal with this? I get so many letters about it and they are all from women, and I suspect it's because people are just less inclined to see women as competent professionals https://t.co/TYyXkMccd3

— Ask a Manager (@AskAManager) November 4, 2021

I used to get this often! Not so much anymore as I’ve gotten older and I also now look way more intimidating.

But yes, being treated like a kid even though you’ve been in the field as long or longer than your interlocutor does happen to men. Into my late 30s people assumed I was in my early 20s, and that I’d been only in my career field for 1-2 years. In reality, professionally I’d been in my various IT roles for 15 years, and had been involved with computing non-professionally for 10+ years before that. Often, it was people I was senior to by 5-10 years treating me like an intern — at least until I straightened them right out.

The future of liberalism is a rainbow-colored boot stamping on a human face — forever…while your pod is cozy and warm and no unauthorized thoughts are permitted in Meta^TM.

Zuck loves you. Don’t you love Zuck? He just wants what’s best for you. Not believing this is racism. Now drink your cockroach milk and slurp your poison pea slurry and be content.

It’s disappointing to see numbers going up for sure. But I feel context is so important. It still seems overall numbers are lower than pre-vax wave in January. Such an important point in my opinion. pic.twitter.com/PXeAdcLad3

— Renee (@reneecle) November 5, 2021

Real shocker to see a highly-transmissible virus somewhat increase in countries that have 25%+ people unvaccinated and who are now spending all their time inside because it’s cold.

Still not good…but about what I expected to see given Delta?

What would be really informative is to break that out for the vaccinated vs unvaccinated. Bet it would look a lot different then!

Last Night in Soho: a film that is worth watching, but leans too heavily into too many metaphors before not really knowing how to wrap up.

No spoilers here, but the film is all about the psychic and social toll of misogyny over time. It’s a ghost story about someone who isn’t dead, about how trauma compounds and ramifies, and how honest good intentions are twisted by the paranoia of real harm; fair feels foul, and foul feels fair, with no interaction left unclothed by this draping of societal iniquity.

Thomasin McKenzie gives a raw and desperate performance of someone who becomes a ghost in her own skin, and in another’s, while Anya Taylor-Joy has less screen time than hoped, but does have a great set-up at the start of the film. Matt Smith is also very good as someone who is both more and less than he appears.

This movie doesn’t quite stick its landing, and is more than a bit unfocused, but the performances, sumptuous scenery, and the warm heart of the work more than make up for what it lacks.

Recommended, with caveats.