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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone certainly has the right to speak how they want. But you can't control how people react to it.

I don't use vocal fry, but if I did when I see threads like this, I would change it for sure. Why continue to do something that so grates on others' nerves to this degree? It's really no different than a mentor long ago taking my dad aside and teaching how to dress more professionally. Should it have mattered? No. Did it? You better believe it.[/quote]

While you are absolutely right, today, your father's mentor would be labelled a racist, sexist or some other "ist" and his or her career ruined.  Facts don't matter anymore, only how someone feels.[/quote]

I'm not so sure. Certain professions really expect certain dress codes to be adhered to - lawyers, accounting firms, etc.

Then again, we had an intern at our large nonprofit office years ago, and this woman was wearing a skirt so short you could see her underwear lines under the (thankfully) heaving stockings. Some of us women debated taking her aside and saying "hey, may want to lengthen the skirts" in a friendly, mentor-style way, but then all agreed we wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole. But we certainly did muse about it behind her back. [/quote]

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