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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Sun May 8, 2022, 08:51 PM May 2022

Can I borrow your imaginations for a minute?

Pretend you're a bigshot in some business enterprise and a senior vice-president has you and other managers into his office to explain his idea for a drastic change in how the corporation operates.

"It's really verh simple" he begins, "what we've been doing for the last 50 years has been egregiously wrong. Wise men in the past---okay, the 'distant past'---understood that women are not intelligent enough to even make decisions about their own health so, obviously, they've not competent to make management decisions in a business. Therefore, all female employees above stenographer or file clerk are hereby discharged."

How long would it take for that misogynist tight-ass to be shown the door?

(All similarities between the above and recent events is intended)

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Can I borrow your imaginations for a minute? (Original Post) Atticus May 2022 OP
If they try to push an Old Testament view of women as religious excuse to do so, this SCOTUS hlthe2b May 2022 #1
Whatever he's trying to do, Mr.Bill May 2022 #2
As the VP of HR, I'd shut down those comments... MANative May 2022 #3
I do believe, IMNSHO, slightlv May 2022 #4

hlthe2b

(102,279 posts)
1. If they try to push an Old Testament view of women as religious excuse to do so, this SCOTUS
Sun May 8, 2022, 08:54 PM
May 2022

might well give them a blank check.

I won't post what I am thinking right now as I write that, but it isn't inspired by my life-long pacifist philosophy...

MANative

(4,112 posts)
3. As the VP of HR, I'd shut down those comments...
Sun May 8, 2022, 08:58 PM
May 2022

Before they were complete. He'd be out the door in about ten minutes, after quickly packing his belongings. Then again, ten out of twelve of our VP-level senior executives are female, so he would have maybe 30 seconds before we hanged him. (Not really kidding, though.)

slightlv

(2,801 posts)
4. I do believe, IMNSHO,
Sun May 8, 2022, 10:34 PM
May 2022

it's just around the corner... that, and quite a few other "rules" that were the law in the 1980's, 1970's, and prior...

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