Posted on 11/10/2018 6:34:15 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
A Wells Fargo executive who reportedly referred to women bank employees as "girls" or told them to put their "big girl panties on" will step down next year.
Without addressing claims made against him, Wells Fargo confirmed that private bank head Jay Welker would retire effective March 31. His coming retirement was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which cited an internal memo.
A complaint against Welker was part of a larger internal investigation into allegations of discrimination by female executives in Wells Fargo's wealth management unit, the newspaper said. The bank spent months interviewing dozens of women after complaints were made of failure to promote and systemic belittling of female executives, according to the Journal.
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Well, he should have known that you’re only allowed to call a bunch of gay guys that.
There is a tv show named “Ridiculousness”. These girls should appear on this show to learn just how stupidly stupid they are.
“Time to don your front-hole covering.”
I think too many people spend too much time thinking too many things are insulting. It’s a sign of deep insecurity...
All high paid and well dressed. What’s their beef?
There are a lot of offensive words men can use to refer to women. “Girls” isn’t one of them.
I’d be willing to bet that some of these complainants use that term to refer to themselves and/or their friends using the word “girl” and never think anything of it. I’m clearly a “mature” woman (not quite in the blue hair category but getting there) and I have someone use that word to refer to me from time to time. As in, “Girl, let me tell you...” I would be silly to take offense.
I used to have a tee shirt with the “big girl panties” phrase on it. It’s another thing that women commonly say to each other.
If a man said it to me and I felt he was being offensive? The answer would be “YOU put YOUR big boy briefs on and YOU deal with it!” Not “WAAAAH! I’m going to file a complaint! WAAAHHHHH!”
I don’t understand why some women are dragging out the fainting couches and smelling salts, again.
yes. yes they do. and too many people want to control other adults speech.
LOL!
Reading the article thru, the bigger issues were that there were the patterns of verbal abuse and belittling and the denial of promotions. The guy seems to have been a jerk. I don’t think just calling them “girls” was the biggest issue that got him canned.
You are right. Some people are in a perpetual state of being offended by just about anything.
Not only is it a sign of insecurity, it’s a sign of being deeply self-centered. Everything is about them. Everyone else is thinking about them.
Generally, that’s not the case. Most other people are thinking about their own concerns. If you say hello to me and I take half a beat longer to respond than you think I should, I am probably not thinking “Oh, I don’t want to talk to her!” I’m probably thinking “What else did I put on that shopping list I left at home?” or “Don’t forget to get the milk!” or “Do I want to cook when I get home or just stop and get a hamburger?” or any of a thousand and one other mundane daily life things that have nothing to do with you whatsoever.
These girls lose in the long run. Sad.
So I guess “broad” is off limits too?
“people with vaginas”... “or those that have a surgical facsimile of one, or those that feel they have one or are planning to have one in the future”
Good question:
broad (adj.)
Old English brad “wide, not narrow,” also “flat, open, extended,” from Proto-Germanic *braidi- (source also of Old Frisian bred, Old Norse breiðr, Dutch breed, German breit, Gothic brouþs), which is of unknown origin. Not found outside Germanic languages. There is no clear distinction in sense from wide. Of day or daylight, late 14c.; of speech or accents, 1530s. Related: Broadly; broadness.
broad (n.)
c. 1300, “breadth” (obsolete), from broad (adj.). Sense of “shallow, reedy lake formed by the expansion of a river over a flat surface” is a Norfolk dialect word from 1650s. Meaning “the broad part” of anything is by 1741.
Slang sense of “woman” is by 1911, perhaps suggestive of broad hips, but it also might trace to American English abroadwife, word for a woman (often a slave) away from her husband. Earliest use of the slang word suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women. Because of this negative association, and the rise of women’s athletics, the track and field broad jump (1863) was changed to the long jump c. 1967.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/broad
But if a female exec...especially one “of color”...had told a white male to “put his big boy pants on” that would have been fine.
Girls - of all ages - call each other girls.
Careers ruined over this while homoerotic pedophiles corrupt and defile children with the blessing of Federalized education.
Fair enough. That was also a point I was making. If the dude truly is a jerk....than that’s another matter entirely. What gets me upset is when someone has a great reputation and is not a bad person in anyway, but then he/she tells a regrettable joke or (name your offense) and society burns them at the stake for being a racists, or sexists......That’s just not fair. Does anyone really think Rosanne Barr is a racists? No!! She just said something that she should not have said. It happens to all of us. She apologized....move on and forget about it.
Why don’t they all just grow up!!
Wow. Fascinating, thanks.
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