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If We Force Employees To Be Inauthentic, Wouldn’t That Harm “Engagement?”

Then the bigger question becomes: Would executives care?

Ted Bauer
4 min readMar 20, 2023

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I’m personally of the belief that one of the only things we really have in this go-go-go world of 2023 is our emotions, and yet, no one really talks about those as much as they should. (Sad.) Here’s a completely off-the-tracks notion: sex literally creates you (unless you’re a cyborg) and then we’re supposed to go 80+ years and basically be hush-hush about sex? That’s odd.

Consider this: I had been sitting at a bar a few months ago talking with some dude about music. Beatles vs. Dylan. Good conversation. Suddenly he says, “Hey, you wanna know the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard in terms of a stat?” I think that’s a good lead-in, so I go “Sure!”

He tells me: “Eleanor Roosevelt could only finish from anal.”

I’m like “Well, OK.”

So the most respected American female of the 1900s liked it from the back, eh? Alright.

“What if Eleanor Roosevelt was into anal? I mean, I’d never know!” That’s gross, yes. And do I have any right to know about Eleanor Roosevelt and backdoor preference? Of course not. But it illustrates a broader point: we should talk more openly about things, ranging from our salaries to sex to…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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