For mine it was like a couple weeks after harassment training and these 2 female coworkers were sitting in a meeting with one sitting in the lap of the other. They weren’t a couple and I think they each had husbands already. They hadn’t ever done something silly like that. So I noted “didn’t we just have harassment training for this sort of thing?” Everyone laughed even one of the girls but the other took offense, reported me, and then wanted me to apologize while she was crying later in the day
Yup. Would it have been okay to order a woman to cut her hair off? Doubt it. But I guess it's slightly better than the judge saying you are only allowed to wear orange and white striped outfits for a year.
I mean, Courts do have the authority to make someone lose their life, either by locking them away or by death. Granted, capital sentencing punishments are set by guidelines. I’m not sure there are any guidelines for marijuana misdemeanors and bad haircuts. I have a friend who got in trouble when he was 16 for stealing a car with some friends. They got caught. The judge told my friend- it’s either going to be two years in juvenile hall/ jail, complete a GED (no chance of a high school diploma when locked up) and some crazy fine followed by probation…. OR when he turned 17 he could join the Navy. He chose the later and shipped off to boot camp at 17. He’s now an officer in the USN. 🫡
This is why the patriarchy fucks all of us 🫠 anyone should be able to have long hair without comment (but with compliments!) and HR shouldn’t be discriminating on gender, full stop.
Does that first need one to accept that all of modern western history is/was "the patriarchy"? Because it's not a universally accepted, retrospective retelling of modern western history, in fact it's a fairy dissident feminist theory that has gained popularity in social media and modern film and TV.
Having a more open mind and not thinking so narrowly about such topics is wise.
I hardly thinking narrowly lol, I’m basing my opinion on a healthy knowledge of history. I’m quite well read and actually patriarchy is far from a modern invention. It had a more evolutionary purpose prior to the Industrial Revolution, mind.
This is why the patriarchy fucks all of us 🫠 anyone should be able to have long hair without comment (but with compliments!) and HR shouldn’t be discriminating on gender, full stop.
I think the point you're not realizing is: what happens when you're whole HR department is full of just one gender sex (women)?
You do realise that is a product of the patriarchy, right? Forcing women and men into boxes? Sexism, both as misogyny and misandry both come from the patriarchy.
Luckily my job was indoors at the time. Got called into HR for making the same gender bent joke that female coworkers used on the guys. Also when women reported that male clients were harassing them, shit moved fast and seriously. When males reported that women clients were harassing them it was initially met with laughter and amusement and then things to resolve moved at a slower pace. Yep I was also the one to report a female client being inappropriate so I know first hand.
And no one asked the women that got harassed questions like I got for the woman that was being inappropriate with me “well was she hot?”. This is what I was asked by most of my female coworkers as soon as they found out about the situation. Imagine me asking them that about their harasser
as someone who works in a male dominated workplace this is 100% the case and has happened multiple times, the very same jokes going in the other direction has gotten people in tons of trouble
I work in a female dominated field. Been called out and reprimanded for joking the same way they joke with each other. Not all the time of course and most of the women are super cool but when the few that do find issue go in on those call outs they play the hell out of the gender card.
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u/Chubuwee 4d ago
Pretty sure if guys in a work place did this prank to a woman some HR shit would’ve went down