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“I guess I can’t talk to women anymore huh?”
I’m autistic and my job involves hiding mics in women’s chests and putting transmitters and tape under their clothes and I’m not worried about that. Why are you?
I’m autistic and my job involves hiding mics in women’s chests and putting transmitters and tape under their clothes and I’m not worried about that. Why are you?
Last person I mic’d was a young woman wearing a single piece dress with no pockets and only her underwear underneath so literally no easy place to mount things. Also minimal crew, so no makeup person to assist me.
So I instructed her to clip the mic on her bras center strap and feed the wire through her sleeve so I could grab it and run it to her back.
There was no place to clip the transmitter except the bras strap in back.
There was no place to clip the transmitter except the bras strap in back.
I said, “I’d like to clip the transmitter to your bras but I need to lift your dress to do that. May I?” Once she said yes, I did exactly what I said I would. Also the mic died right then, so I had to grab a spare and we had to do it all again.
The second go around I did the same thing. I also told her what I was doing when I took the mic off. No problems.
You see how easy that is?
You see how easy that is?
I often have to make little adjustments so they sound good. I try and have people do as much as they can themselves but sometimes the wardrobe is complicated or they need to be adjusted.
I’ve said, “I’d like to adjust the mic. Do you might if I reach in and do it?”
I’ve said, “I’d like to adjust the mic. Do you might if I reach in and do it?”
The mics are usually clipped on the chest right now their breasts, but I ask even when it’s not. 95 percent of people say, “Yeah to ahead.”
I tweeted this example a few years back. https://twitter.com/mooseplainer/status/999448033363279872?s=21
The issue isn’t that men are talking to women, it’s men using their positions of power to behave in predatory ways around women.
If you can’t tell the difference, that says everything about you.
If you can’t tell the difference, that says everything about you.
It’s also men with no power and literally nothing to pressure women with hitting on them and getting aggressive when they don’t capitulate, so women have to stay vigilant.
As someone who has to get close to strangers, it’s quite easy not to set off her alarms.
As someone who has to get close to strangers, it’s quite easy not to set off her alarms.
In a professional context, I say hello, I explain what I need to do and verbally explain every step so there are no surprises. I also try and have others do as much as they can themselves.
Not hard.
Not hard.
And when you are nice and not creepy, when I have to say, “I need to get to your transmitter which is attached to your bras,” because you’ve been respectful they’re very likely to just say, “Yeah do what you need to do,” without a problem.
Mind you, I can’t always read social cues. I learned this approach through many years on the job.
