Thursday, June 23, 2011

Your slip is showing.

Every now and again one of the ruling classes lets their guard down and gets a bit antsy and shoots from the lip. Just such an occurrence occurred this morning in New Zild.  Mr. Thompson has since apologised for saying it, not for the slops he was spouting, mind you, just that too many people heard it.
This afternoon he told NZPA he was sorry for causing offence but stood by his overall argument
That's the argument that says that women won't get paid the same as men because of girly bits.
The argument with none of that facty stuff behind it:
He based that on his experience at the EMA but did not have any statistics to back it up
The two things on display here are the wrong-headedness and out-of-touchness of Mr. Thompson, head of an employers group that wanks on about how much it values all members of society and as their mission statement says by seeking to create the most desirable environment for business.
But then we have the media report of the incident that calls it "Period Drama" ha ha, see it's about girly bits again.
If our society is supposed to get better by two steps forward, one step back, when are we going to do the forward steps?

8 comments:

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Of course, there is a logical way to protest this cobag's sexism, but it's not bloody likely to be adopted.

Whale Chowder said...

Very classy, that man.

If our society is supposed to get better by two steps forward, one step back, when are we going to do the forward steps?

That was the '60s, I believe. Maybe the '90s, at least in parts of the U.S.

Your part of the world has more useless wankers than I had previously suspected. Nothing on us, mind you, but still.

w/v reminds me I'm a unisc and beautiful snowflake.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

If our society is supposed to get better by two steps forward, one step back, when are we going to do the forward steps?

I suspect we will not challenge the dinosaurs for longevity of reign.

wv: hymolog
~

mikey said...

I just find this totally weird. It's like they're just utterly mentally defective.

Now, first, I DO understand that in the case gear, kit and undercarriage preferences vary, but nonetheless, for me it HAS to be said that girly bits are WAY cooler than any other sort of bits and are, frankly, worth a helluva lot more of the filthy lucre.

So when these doods come out effectively against those same downstairs accouterments, it frankly calls their entire worldview into question. One wonders if they'll next come out with a vicious attack on orange sherbet, or perhaps propose a constitutional amendment banning bacon...

Substance McGravitas said...

Having a nice place might have something to do with not pissing off half of the people in that place by telling them they'll never be good enough.

Smut Clyde said...

He based that on his experience at the EMA but did not have any statistics to back it up

Evidence is no match for personal intuition sir!

Having a nice place might have something to do with not pissing off half of the people in that place

Counter-intuitively, the heads of employers groups have never exhibited much evidence in having a productive work environment. These are, after all, the people who foisted open-plan offices upon an entire generation of wage-slaves. Yes, they reduced productivity, but this was more than compensated by the creation of a new status symbol for anyone sufficiently high up the management ladder to have an office that wasn't open-plan.

Smut Clyde said...

That second 'evidence' should read 'interest'.
I blame these dodgy German keyboards where the Y and the Z are the wrong way around and there are extra keys for umlauted vowels.

Mentis Fugit said...

Evidence is no match for personal intuition sir!

I prefer to think of it as another triumph of recto-extractive analysis.