Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

Right.

So when a man comes up to you and is like, tell me more about your life.

Tell me more.

Tell me more.

Tell me more.

Right.

So on the one hand, she suffers in promotions.

On the other hand, maybe she has like if we're talking about like oblivion buffs and minuses to speech craft, there are going to be certain checks that she does well in in certain checks that she does poorly in.

And then we're on like there are advantages that we have and disadvantages that we have to.

I'm not saying that everything is even or fair, by the way, so I'm not trying to draw some false equivalency.

It's just as I was listening to her experiences of being a woman, I was thinking to myself, wow, I've never had to deal with that, or wow, I could never get away with that.

And at the top of the list is pinning someone down for two hours at a social event and having a deep conversation and expressing a lot of curiosity that may feel invasive if you're a dude.

Right.

But then I've also never had someone be like, oh, sitting next to me on the subway and be like, oh, my God, I like where do you work?

Where do you live?

Right.

Maybe he was just trying to have an authentic conversation, was really curious about her.

Oh, my God.

Wait, hold on a second.

Is that actually what happened?