"You're just trying to lift her legs up higher to make her skirt shorter, aren't you?" It’s amazing how quickly what seems like a perfectly comfortable, fun environment turns into hostile territory for women in an instant by men making what they think are innocuous comments, like this one.

It started off as a normal enough day, with reasonable enough expectations. I needed to help the photographer I was assisting set up for studio portraits. That was one of my two main responsibilities: the other was keep the clients happy (one of his regulars, a law firm). A simple enough ask, which ultimately proved to be much more demanding than it should have been. People like to dismiss the importance of microaggressions (which exist in all forms, and for the course of this discussion, we’ll be talking about the ones women face with regularity). . thephoblographer.com

2019-8-31 13:00