[Jonx6]

"The EEOC says that the high failure rate for women points to a cutoff time that is legally insufficient."

Classic.

[Dog Gone]

By all means, let's lower the standards for firefighters so that the men only have to do what a 105 lb woman can do.

That should make everyone feel more diverse and inclusive while our houses burn down.

[Servant of the 9]

Ed Koch had the best answer to these questions.
"I don't care what sex a fireman is, as long as they can carry a 200 pound mayor down a ladder"

So9

[flashbunny]

Let's also hire some lardbutts that can't climb ladders or get in upstairs windows.

Celebrate diversity, while your house is burning down!

[Rightly Biased]

Ward has been talking about this on his show.

What's next a test for breast feeding firefighters?

"Can they carry a 105lb person while they are breast feeding an infant"

[Shazolene]

Diversity is more important than survival.
Good lord.
They'd rather let us burn than be un-PC.

[TXBubba]

The EEOC says that the high failure rate for women points to a cutoff time that is legally insufficient.

Ah, come on Jonx6, we can stay in our burning homes a minute or two longer can't we? No problem. sarcasm.

[kstewskis]

PC affirmative action in action.

Great. At who's expense?

If some little lady can carry me (and not drag me causing more injuries) out from a burning building or ditch, then fine.

But I doubt it.

No matter how you twist it, women just arent built for it, unless they had relatives that used to swim for East Germany.

A job is a job. So long the feminazi's screamed for "equality" now they want to make it easier? How equal is that?

What a load.

My dad and grampa (LAFD) are spinning in their graves.

[Alia]

Austin, Portland, and San Francisco are "home cities" to uber PC activism. Perhaps Austin will go the way of the SFFD, and begin soliciting for tiny Asian-American women to be given "preferential hiring" for the fire department. Of course, few wish to ever mention how many female-hires are given "light duty", or "disability status" -- while getting the same pay as the guys fighting the fires. There are some women, few, who CAN be on merit with the guys. But that is being torn asunder through the watering down of "standards" and "quota promotions" within various FD. Politics, as usual, from the PC Brigades.