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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this in person or online? Is this during the meeting itself or before it starts? If it’s while people are talking to each other, find someone else and talk about something else. Start your own chit chat conversation. If I were your manager and it was happening in my meeting, I wouldn’t mind being pulled aside and told “that line of conversation makes me queasy” and I’d go talk to the others, but please don’t get up in my face with a rant on the evils of meat eating. Online, just turn down the volume until the actual work talk starts.

But I do recommend using your words, but in a pleasant way - like mentioned above or “Bob, Dave, please - there are ladies present!” or something like that, with a laugh. Find your own common ground with your coworkers.[/quote]

Don't do the ladies thing. I am a woman and I've dissected plenty of bodies. Woman can be farmers, and of course they do what needs to be done. But yes, talk to these people, OP.[/quote]

You have missed the point. I’m the PP, female, and my family owns butcher shops. But these two dudes talk about this kind of stuff and you want them to shut up so you give them a code most men will understand to mean shut up. Not a lecture on vegetarianism and feminism in the same breath.[/quote]

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