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U.S. Senate Approves Anti-Discrimination Bill Endorsed by Tim Cook
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Just two quickies:
1: the draft ended in the USA in 1973
2: what job requires women to wear High heals besides hooker?
1: the draft ended in the USA in 1973
2: what job requires women to wear High heals besides hooker?
Then replace high heals with makeup etc.
Women certainly have to meet far higher standards of personal appearance.
Exactly. If they don't dress to fit the stereotype of a woman, they're branded a lesbian. But I think women themselves and women's fashion and lifestyle magazines that are predominantly to blame for that.
U.S. Senate Approves Anti-Discrimination Bill Endorsed by Tim Cook
My partner doesn't shave them. But then he's called John and he might get looked at funny in the gym.
My partner doesn't shave them. But then he's called John and he might get looked at funny in the gym.
You wouldn't?
[sounds likes the next great PRSI thread]
I probably would. But I'm probably the exception and not the rule.
There is great pressure to conform over these things.
No, we live in a matriarchal society.
http://www.revolucionantifeminista..../06/lawrence-shannon-the-predatory-female.pdf
And boys are no longer taught to be tough in this country. To the contrary, boys are taught to be meek and deferential, particularly towards to women. Unfortunate, but true.
No. Carefully designed studies show that women hit men more often than visa-versa. Just because you don't think that is a serious problem doesn't make it any less true.
No. Women are more likely to be convicted for child abuse than men, because the state has already discriminated in allowing women near-exclusive enjoyment of the children in the first place. Plus, when a woman takes the kids away from their biological father, then shacks up with some random guy named "Spike" who smokes pot and drives a Harley, then stands by idly while Spike beats her kids or smokes pot with them, she ends up in jail along with Spike.
Bull. Social security and medicare already account for 45% of the Federal budget. Currently there are more people receiving needs-tested government assistance than we have full time workers.
Agricultural subsidies in the U.S. are $20 billion per year. In contrast, Social Security is $700 billion per year, Medicare / SMI is $550 billion, and Medicaid is $295 billion. Means tested Federal benefits were $588 billion in 2012.
That being said, there certainly is a lot more crony capitalism going on these days than in the past, something that surely should be curtailed.
Old news. Not a reason to provide free medical care to women while not doing so for men.
If it's not necessary, don't use it. Meanwhile, register everyone, or nobody. Lots of moms are proud, and always have been proud, to see their boys join the military. We live in a matriarchal society.
Women are trying to get the right to *volunteer* to get into combat positions. Hardly any women want to be forced into it when they don't want to do it. I'd be more than a little skeptical, too, but I'd let them have it.
You are perceived to have more skill to be wait staff if you are female. I think its very clear from watching Food network, it's no more difficult to make it as a female chef these days as it is as a male chef.
Trust me, I've worked in health care in the past. I've been present while the ladies are complaining.
I have never worked at a place that requires a women to wear high heels. That is, unless you work as a stripper.
Women are paid less because they choose job security over salary, and they often take time off from thier career. Sometimes, you make less because you choose a fluffy career that makes you feel warm and fuzzy, instead of the one that makes you more cold, hard cash. Like me. I'm a stay-at-home dad for the last couple years, and it's costing me boatloads of money and will cost me boatloads of money in the future. Don't work or take time off from your career? Don't expect to get paid, hone your skills, or get promotions for a while.
Who decided only transgendered males should wear fake eyelashes? You? That's a rather stupid thing to say.
This is just yet another bill singling out a matriarchally preferred sub-population for special treatment. Meanwhile, you don't even have the decency not to let a guy wear a tie to work, much less fake eyelashes.
Why should people be treated any differently? Because they belong to a matriarchally-endorsed "identity" group? Go fish.
Yup.
Well then, extenuating circumstances aside, if they are both drunk, either they both go to jail, or neither.
According to you, then it's time for schools to start an awareness campaign about female rape of men...
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I thought your question dealt more with personal preference than social conformity.
I prefer to have a woman's legs loving wrapped around me ... shaved or not.
WOW.
I was going to say that you had a chip on your shoulder.
But in your case you have WHOLE BLOCK.
What about the recent middle school boy that was suspended as he refused to remove a Vera Bradley Bag/ purse when told to by school officials, when the girls wearing the same of comparable bags/ purses have never been told to do such? This fact was brought to the school personnel and they just ignored this and stated that the boy was breaking school code (of which none exists within the school handbook, as verified by the principal and the family through local news groups).
Even though the use of the draft ended then, males of today are still required to register for it. Registration doesn't seem like a big deal on the surface to most, except that school funding (availability of higher education loans, for a college education that everyone wants to make equally available to all youth no matter their standing in life) is essentially ransomed over this registration. Any male that hasn't registered for the vote will not be granted any higher education loans/funding even though an un-needed and un-necessary draft requirement is still required by law.
I have never seen a job requiring the wearing of high heels for the position, un less it was a shoe model. I have to agree on the complaint as well, as I work in a professional environment that when I go into the office, males are required dress shirts and ties, yet women are just required to wear "appropriate attire" (which when questioned about hat statement were told it would be the discretion of the females to deem appropriateness. Like that isn't biased in anyway and this allowed the women to wear "pretty" t-shirts, and I say t-shirts as that is what they were labeled and sold as ion the stores as I saw them when shopping with my wife). Men were also required to wear dress shoes only, and the women could wear basically anything but sandals and tennis shoes, and the sandals were once again dependent on the consensus whether it was considered a sandal or not, as it might be an espadrilles or slingback, which wasn't a sandal, they defended when approached about it.
I have also never seen a workplace specify that a women is required to wear makeup or shave (as this really is a custom of your region), but have seen several where men are required to shave and not allowed to have beards, goatees, and at best a well groomed mustache that has to meet certain grooming standards.
That's because I have never seen a woman who didn't groom themselves acceptably. No need for a rule if everyone follows it anyway.
So since you say I am not discriminated against, then it is not true? When I am the best candidate for the position, yet don't get it, because I am a certain race, that is discrimination, positive or not, it is discrimination.
How is an ethnically diverse workforce a valid reason for "positive" or any discrimination (even positive is still discrimination). In most production type environments, an ethnically or sexually diverse workforce doesn't produce a better product, or one that is more appealing to the public. Engineering is a science and I don't see how having differing views based upon racial, sexual, religious, etc backgrounds makes the numbers any more true or correct. No matter the backgrounds the science is a fact and not open to interpretation. I can see where in terms of design appearance differing viewpoints can help to market to the public, but in most production environments this makes no difference.
Not to completely derail this thread (although it seems to have run it's hateful course already), but there are, and have been, numerous places of employment where a woman's physical appearance has been a factor in her hiring or dismissal.
Lucky for you. I have worked in several places where people didn't bath regularly (both male and female, and we are talking like once every 3-4 weeks and generally ate very spicy and pungent foods so the scents were much more pronounced), never combed or washed their hair, used deodorant, a big deal when not bathing as this was the same group, etc. It was a less than pleasant environment to be in to say the least.
We have one. All other women dress and groom (sounds weird, like an animal planet phrase) very nicely. The men...depends on the guy. Some of us, especially the overnight shift or weekend people)...lucky if they changed their underpants before coming in.
How do you know you're the best candidate for a position?
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Remember recently the dentist who fired his assistant for being too tempting?
Yep. Although, if I was a betting man, I'd lay odds his wife helped him make that decision.
I really am not sure, but it was pretty close in breakdown if I remember. The maintenance and management force were male strong (if memory serves me correctly), but the accounting, HR, were more female dominated, and then the general work force was pretty evenly split, if favoring any group it would have been the women that were larger in numbers. It was very close though I would say, and didn't generally favor one over the other. If there was a favor it would be a few percentage points (not more than 5-6%), but nothing that would scream inequality to anyone.
Funny thing is (as I put on my tie), I dress nicer than pretty much anyone at my firm. Guys or women.
I said me, but the case I was thinking about, while referencing this was not me, but another co-worker. I know the one worker was the better candidate, as I had seen both the resumes, and new the work history. I had worked with both people in question for over 6 years, so I knew them both very well. One was college educated, the other was not (as were most of the people I worked with, many took this career as it enabled them to easily attend school and work). They had both started the company when I had, so we all had the same 6 years in with the company. When the management position opened up for an internal promotion only, there were no managers of anything other than white male classification. The two applying were both males and with the same performance history and no reprimands or disparaging/ disqualifying marks on their work records (or any marks of any kind, as we had discussed this all the time as workers do in the same job). The non-white (and also non-college educated in this case) male was selected for the job. When it was brought to the union's attention, the quota was the reason given for the promotion being given to one over the other.
The union rep looked into it and the company could only come up with a quota reasoning for the hiring. A grievance was filed and that is when the "no reverse discrimination" answer was brought about in the company and the court system as it was pursued there. Miraculously after all of these charges, rather than take the promotion away from the one applicant, they instead created a "new" position for the other and promoted him as well. We were told by the union rep that the agreement was made with the company this way to avoid negative publicity for a "possible" racially motivated change (and possible lawsuit) if the other was removed from his position and this was the fairest result for all involved.
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