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RGA maybe you shout out him? He's probably gone on to do this to others.
I think we need to tell the women in this business (starting out or otherwise) that we have their backs. And then...we need to have them. United we stand.
I watched CD I was dating prepare me a drink and drop a pill in the glass with his friends' approval. He didn't think I saw. I never outed him. Just threw out the drink.
I went to what was presented as a mentoring-type drinks meet up with a former boss. Was proven way wrong when he asked “your place or mine?” after a glass of wine. Still grossed out, 5 years later.
I’d have SO wanted to switch drinks around when HE wasn’t looking.
Mine was with a former client, ~55+ years old, who suggested we get together and catch up a few months after I switched jobs @ age 25 (I had been their primary day-to-day client). My gut told me something felt funny, but a few of my former coworkers I confided in told me I was overreacting. When I met him, He told me we were going to a wine bar (where he made the host open a closed room so we could have “privacy” for about an hour), then to dinner across the street where he tried to woo me with his super personal and near-death tales (he’s still young! Gross). I caught on quickly (but evidently not quickly enough?) and began referencing my mom a lot, and how much they had in common. I didn’t know how to extracate myself from the situation, so he drove me home, and I thank my lucky stars he didn’t make a move on me. Afterward, I wrote him a very formal, client/networking-eque thank you note, and never heard from him again. Took me months before I could think about it without having a shame attack for not trusting my gut and realizing it sooner, and my former (male) boss blamed me for “putting myself in the position.” Idiots.
A successful and much older and married writer who came to speak to a college class of mine. I was a naive 19. I approached him after the lecture to tell him how much I admired his work. He gave me his email and told me to send him some of my writing. He'd help me. So after a few email exchanges I accepted an offer to meet up when he was back in town a few weeks later. I thought I had a new mentor. I agreed to meet him at the hotel, thinking we'd have a drink in the lobby. He asked me to meet in his room. It didn't take long before things started to get really uncomfortable. Then he got a very visible boner he wanted me to notice and tried to put my hand on his crouch. I was too polite and apologized as I found an excuse to leave as quickly as I could. Let's just say not how I'd react today.
CD 2. Nope. Ugh. Too many out there.
Hah...peers. Freudian slip much?
Sad to say there wasn't just one for me. Old guys always think they are "just being cute" but it's the worst, imho, when it's the client.
C2...def an 8-9 on Skeevy Wonder scale.
An account director would touch my ass on late nights on a pitch when I was a Jr. His wife still works at our agency but he thankfully doesn't.
I had a CD show me porn. Multiple times. When my partner (also a woman) and I would go into his office to present. Guy on guy, girls and guys, orgies, you name it. He would pull out these beautifully bound books as we sat with him on the couch, put it on his lap and say look at this, and open it up to pages of really explicit stuff. Everyone just laughed about it but it was horrifying and demeaning. He would watch our reactions. And asked if it got us off. I was a junior, right out of school. It never occurred to me to report it. I didn't want to get fired.
@copywriter2, @digitas1, I’m so sorry. That’s heinous.
Is anyone else reveling in watching Weinstein crash and burn? He deserves all of it.
Mine was an agency owner in Columbus, Ohio who asked me to attend an "event" with him one evening. I thought it was going to be a breakout moment for my career. Turned out it was just a bar and he tried to stick his tongue down my throat.
I'm knocking on wood right now that I haven't had an experience like this so far... Only a few instances with some male "peers" I've had. Just reading these makes my blood boil and my stomach turn 😞
Just as weird-awkward-vomitous with male “pervs”
Showed me porn
I want to upvote all of these but it also just makes me ill. How do we break the cycle, besides speaking up and supporting our fellow women (or men, since this happens across the board too)?