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Trump's debate interruptions a workplace problem - Chicago Tribune
2 hours ago - I JUST WORK HERE: Donald Trump's sexism is setting a terrible ... The issue of men interrupting women has been studied over and over again ...
Just to balance this topic -yet another - on the insufferable male privilege of interrupting women of even high social status: a passage in " Some novelists I have known " by Somerset Maugham.
This particular novelist was a guest in Maugham's home. A woman friend of Maugham was eager to meet with him - " a marvelous talker " , she was told. The guest started to talk. The woman quickly interrupted him.
" He stopped and when she had finished , went on. Again she interrupted him and again he stopped. When she paused he started once more again and again she interrupted. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HER WISH WAS NOT TO HEAR H.G. TALK but to have him listen to her talk .He gave me one of his funny grins and relapsed into silence...
For the rest of lunch he sat mute while she gave utterance to a stream of shattering platitudes....
When she went away she said she had a wonderful time ".
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