RE: Men and Women equal? No, never.
May 14, 2013 at 6:41 pm
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2013 at 6:46 pm by ideologue08.)
(May 14, 2013 at 6:24 pm)Tiberius Wrote: No...he got the job because he wasn't pregnant and was less likely to have to have a period of leave in the near future. Gender was a factor here, but it wasn't the only factor. The fact that you mentioned she was pregnant implies that had she not have been, she may have gotten the job. It wasn't her gender that cost her the job, it was her being pregnant.Well, refusing a pregnant woman is considered sexual discrimination so I was referring to legislation and what society thinks about it in general, it is definitely considered sexual discrimination in Europe, which shouldn't be the case as you rightly pointed out Tiberius.
Clearly you haven't seen some of the women I've seen. Plus, have you heard of guns? Why do you assume it's all about physical strength here?
This is actually a scenario I agree with you on, but again, it's not because of gender that I think it's unfair; it's because the female players do less than male players. There isn't a good reason why female players can't play for 5 sets, and if they play for less time, they should earn less money.
I'm of the opinion that anyone should be able to discriminate against anyone they like. If I'm turned down for a job because I'm a man, I don't think I want to work for a company like that anyway. Anti-discrimination laws have good intentions, but they just don't work out in real life. Firstly, because why would some non-white person want to work for a white supremacist in the first place, but also because it's very hard to prove discrimination in the hiring process anyway.
There are no guns here in Europe, just good ol' brute strength and stamina and physical deterrence. Although in America I guess you can have a teenage girl armed with a semi-auto to do the job I still think that's excessive though, I mean if someone steals something from a shop, surely they're not going to be gunned down for it?( I don't know, with the way the US is going it could be heading that way.)
Female players play less tennis because there's more empty seats and not enough TV viewers. Bottom line is people want to watch men play more than women play (and when men do watch women play it's usually to check out their legs and breasts and hope that the wind pulls up their skirt which in my opinion, is disgusting and downright sexist, the embodiment of sexism).
I have to disagree with you there my friend, discrimination laws do help to combat racism, sexism, discrimination against the disabled. The laws do work. For example, if a man and a woman are doing the same job, the man cannot be paid more for it, that's blatant sexism.
Also, if a company is making redundancies, then it would be obviously racist for them to let go all the black people etc. There are many cases where discrimination laws help a lot. (Although it didn't stop an Amazon warehouse from firing all the Muslim employees the day after 9/11, happened right here in the UK as well which is pretty shocking. Needless to say some of the employees took Amazon to court, I don't know what happened after that but a colleague of mine told me that he went to work in the morning after 9/11 to find the names of all Muslim employees on a board for redundancies, which is blatant xenophobia. There's something about US companies and the US in general that's so anti-Islam). Totally off-topic though.