I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Stuart is a jack***, but he’s not evil. He really doesn’t realize the misogyny Marla faces, and while he SHOULD realize it, the fact that he doesn’t means he himself isn’t.
Isn’t *anymore*, anyway. He was pretty misogynistic in the early strips, but he had to get over it when Connie became his DM, and fortunately, that new attitude seems to have stuck.
Corporate, on the other hand, is definitely going to use *both* Marla’s gender and her lack of management experience (on paper, anyway, we all know she’s been doing Stuart’s job for him for years) to keep her wages lower than his are, if they did promote her.
Stuart’s experience consists of sitting on his behind in the office on the computer reading the latest love letter from Corporate. He never actually works. Marla has far more actual experience since she works and he doesn’t.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Stuart is a jack***, but he’s not evil. He really doesn’t realize the misogyny Marla faces, and while he SHOULD realize it, the fact that he doesn’t means he himself isn’t.
He’s just stuck up his own ***.
Isn’t *anymore*, anyway. He was pretty misogynistic in the early strips, but he had to get over it when Connie became his DM, and fortunately, that new attitude seems to have stuck.
Corporate, on the other hand, is definitely going to use *both* Marla’s gender and her lack of management experience (on paper, anyway, we all know she’s been doing Stuart’s job for him for years) to keep her wages lower than his are, if they did promote her.
Stuart’s experience consists of sitting on his behind in the office on the computer reading the latest love letter from Corporate. He never actually works. Marla has far more actual experience since she works and he doesn’t.