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I am 27 and I do consider myself a feminist.
I worked as a legal secretary for an attorney who one asked me to call a client and apologize for a mistake that the attorney had made. The attorney told me that he believed it would be easier for the client to hear of the mistake coming from a woman and for me to make the apology, as though *I* had made the mistake, because women's voices are soft and so on. He put me in a very uncomfortable spot then, and he put me in many uncomfortable spots throughout the time I worked for him. I had to quit from that position. I couldn't tolerate that.

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