The Left’s War on Women Just Keeps Building

Bloomberg Opinion ✔ @bopinion - No dinners with female colleagues - Don’t sit next to them on flights - Book hotel rooms on different floors - Avoid one-on-one meetings

Wall Street's controversial strategies for the #MeToo era are making life even harder for women https://bloom.bg/2RvZYzx

Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost No more dinners with female colleagues. Don’t sit next to them on flights. Book hotel rooms on different floors. Avoid one-on-one meetings.

bloomberg.com 1,353 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy So think about this: The #MeToo movement has ensured that in today’s corporate environment, any man who is accused of anything that could be remotely defined to be “harassment” will be automatically presumed guilty and most likely summarily fired by the company, unless he is a very well-known liberal senior executive, in which case it takes a little while longer for him to be fired, plus he gets a huge severance package like Les Moonves.

What, someone really believed that that environment would not create some sort of backlash? Hell, the stuff talked about in that article isn’t even really a backlash – it’s simple self-defense.

And the truth is, this is nothing new – the focus on sexual harassment in the workplace and the need to find ways to avoid it came about in the 1970s. I worked in the corporate world for 40 years, starting in 1979. More than 20 years ago, I made the personal decision to never take a one-on-one meeting with a female peer or subordinate in an office with the door closed. It wasn’t that I didn’t trust and respect the women I worked with – it was just that you couldn’t take the risk of being accused of anything like that. Because once an accusation is made, whether it is true or not, your reputation at that company is forever damaged.

Having said all of that, sexual harassment in the workplace is a despicable act that needs to be punished. It is honestly mind-boggling to me that we are here in the year 2018, after 40 years of focus on this issue, and there are still men who think this kind of boorish behavior is somehow acceptable. It isn’t, you clowns.

But the way to punish it is not to suspend rules of evidence and the presumption of innocence for the accused, as the leftists in the #MeToo movement insist. What the Bloomberg article truly demonstrates is that this rush to persecute, regardless of how many innocent people become ensnared, actually does more harm to career women than it helps.

It’s just one more aspect of the political left’s war on women, and that war is very real. The rights of genetic females are being diminished in our society every day. You have the Democrat Party and its judges fully in support of the effort by our news media and pop culture to normalize Sharia Law and the genital mutilation practices of some Muslim sects; you have Democrats passing laws that allow people with male genitalia to use the same public restrooms as your wives and daughters; you have people with male genitalia and musculature being allowed to take athletic trophies away from little girls and share locker rooms with them at many schools. You have a supporter of Sharia Law serving for two years now as co-chair of something called the Women’s March, and a woman-abusing buddy of Louis Farrakhan recently getting elected as the Democrat Attorney General of Minnesota. It’s a real war, ladies, and you’re the target. And head’s up: It isn’t conservatives who are fighting it.

…...well, sir or madam, please read this article, one of “many” and probably thousands with the same point. Katharine Tarbox is an MBA Student at Wharton and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania ergo that makes her pretty smart.

I’ve not graduated from any college but my projects over 40+ years have employed hundreds and probably thousands if I cared to go back and study the subject completely which I don’t.

Along that path I’ve hired many women but quit hiring them decades ago if I could avoid it. Largely for the same reasons Katharine Tarbox elucidates in her article.

I agree with you that some women can be very conscientious and a great value to the company. In fact, I could name several. But, their potential liability is just too great and the women’s movement has gone too far. Some, are now recognizing that fact, obviously not you.

https://hbr.org/2018/03/is-metoo-backlash-hurting-womens-opportunities-in-finance

well, sir or madam, please read this article, one of “many” and probably thousands with the same point. Katharine Tarbox is an MBA Student at Wharton and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania ergo that makes her pretty smart.

What it makes her is a typical northeast liberal. Wharton! Lol!

BTW I'm a sir not a madam.

What I said was that the Social science data. Data, not anecdotes. Says that sex is not a reliable indicator of success in the workplace. Conscientiousness and intelligence(IQ) are the two most important indicators for success in the work place.

There is no debate on that...seriously. What does that mean? It means that if women earn less or don't get hired it isn't because of their sex. There are other factors in a multi-varied analysis that account for the differences.

Your Wharton graduate (I couldn't be less impressed), is citing anecdotal stories. They are anecdotes. My mother, some executive, the 70's, the 80's, yada yada yada. This is typical social justice warrior empty argument. Everyone just knows right?

I'll just say it one more time. The Data; actual multi-varied analyses done by real scientists don't support the assertion you made that women generally have been discriminated against in the workplace because of their sex.

What the data suggests is that if you put men and women on an equal playing field and have them compete for a limited number of high paying jobs the men will not lay down and let the women take them. Since men are, on average, less agreeable and more aggressive than women (biological facts won't go away to placate anyone's feelings), the men tend to be over represented at the top.

That's not discrimination that's biology

Are there instances where sexual discrimination has happened? Sure there are. As with anything corruption exists. But where do you find it? In the very liberal bastions which claim to be promoting women. Hollywood, liberal media networks, politicians, Not so much in every day America.

So to sum up, 1.Biology, 2. Social Science, 3. Anecdotes are not evidence they wouldn't be accepted at any reasonable peer reviewed journal, Conclusion: Are men over represented at the top of the workforce? Yes! why? Not because women are discriminated against.

Is this pound me too hurting women by making men scared to F with them? If men are smart it is. This is a recent development. Last 5-10 years and 10 is stretching it. So I called bullshit on your blanket discrimination statement not on the fact that the pound me too movement is bad for gulls in the work force.

The Data; actual multi-varied analyses done by real scientists don’t support the assertion you made that women generally have been discriminated against in the workplace because of their sex.
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Ok, “Toddler”, now at least we know each other’s gender. Your highlighted statement above is regarding an Apple. I’m talking about a Banana!

To wit; in my long career, I have personally hired hundreds of people. Very early on in that career, I quit having meetings alone with women, I quit going to lunch with them, I wouldn’t meet with women in a room with a closed door. These are facts Toddler. They are not data in a scientific study. And, I personally know scores of upper management and owners who do the same thing. My point? In one more way, Feminism has shot itself in the foot and they started shooting at their feet a long time before the ME TOO movement reared it’s head. It seems they (Feminists) love shooting their toes off and then reloading and shooting another one or two off.

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