The Irish just went full retard - Legalizing gender discrimination

[CanOfMountainDew]

That kind of sucks. In the case that a man and a woman are equally employable, it should come down to a coin flip. Or even just who the employer prefers for no good reason. But to make a policy that priorities one sex over the other is inherently sexist - this can't even be argued.

That's how we got into this situation to begin with.

Given that preference in government hiring has resulted in unexpected sexism, you argue that falling back to that originating behavior will be less sexist despite it producing this scenario than one that says:

If both candidates are equally capable, pick the one that is further from the majority, which currently happens to be most obviously imbalanced by sex.

You've basically argued that implicit sexism and an existing imbalance for public jobs is better than attempting to rectify that under very specific circumstances.

"Given that preference in government hiring has resulted in unexpected sexism"

That's not a given.

"You've basically argued that implicit sexism and an existing imbalance for public jobs is better than attempting to rectify that under very specific circumstances."

I see. You seem to be under the illusion that workplaces that don't exhibit gender parity are necessarily caused by sexism in hiring. This doesn't follow.