You: "*Gasp* Surely you shouldn't be letting them handle heavy machinery??"mixtress wrote:"this one's great if your girlfriend or wife wants to use it because we've DUMBED DOWN the menu"
Cereal though, if you want to try to do something youself, I'd go for low-key. For the most part, they probably don't even realise they are being inappropriate for the workplace. If you try for the "You can't say that!" approach, you'll just get defensive monkey-noises. If you can highlight when they have crossed a line in a vaguely entertaining, non-screaming-banshee way, you might get them starting to think twice. Otherwise, I'd just wait until the end of your probation. Presumably you'll have a review, likely with someone obliged to be PC (at least on paper). Then I'd mention the 'boys club expressions' needing a bit of an update for the 21st century.
The last thing you want is to get the "Oh, sorry, I forgot - we can't say that when Mixxy's here". (You will probably get this anyway though tbh
)PS. I fucken hate insinuations of cock-suckery when it comes to my career. Being outnumbered about 20:1 in my field, they are not nearly as frequent as they could be, but jesus fuck do they make me want to vomit. Haven't people seen any male mathematicians???
