Sorry for the throwaway.
I have a coworker who I'll call Anna. Anna works in a semi-clerical role. She is, from all reports, fine at her job.
Anna comes from a culture in which traditional gender roles are still enforced pretty strongly. She will openly say "I can just start crying when I walk in and they'll help me, because I'm a girl!" She complains at work when her first dates don't bring her flowers. Etc etc - you know what I'm getting at.
The problem is: when she runs into an issue, she will start complaining in the "pitiful" voice. What should I doooooo :( :( :(. And she ONLY does this when she's talking to men - when she speaks to other women, she cleans her speech up.
It drives me fucking bonkers. I know what she's doing. She's trying to ask for help without actually asking for help. She is trying to play on my BIG STRONG PROTECTOR MAN role.
Any way I've thought to address this with her would make me sound like an asshole. And I recognize that this is cultural, too, this is the way that she was raised.
Is there any way for me to bring this up safely?
tl;dr: coworker does babyvoice when she hits minor roadblocks.
Submitted April 26, 2019 at 12:38PM by babytalkwtf http://bit.ly/2vqx7mF
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