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    5 hours ago

    Same in China where some companies hire an English-speaking white dude as a mascot to tag along with executives to give them a more prestigious, international look.

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      3 hours ago

      Like the old TV show “Remington Steele.”

      Female private eye creates a fictional male boss so people will take her agency seriously. Pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan played the stooge.

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        2 hours ago

        There was an episode of Scrubs wherein the female doctor Elliott was given a sexist patient. The patient assumed from her gender that she was a nurse, so she invented a fictional male doctor named Elliott and claimed that all of her directions were being relayed from that individual.

        I don’t remember exactly how it panned out. It was only one episode, not a major premise.