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https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-asked-a-pregnant-employee-going-to-kill-it-2020-2
What's the big deal, just that it would've been a comment directed at a woman, that a man wouldn't have been subjected to, because men don't get pregnant; and thus, therefore the comment is discriminatory?
Well, that's kinda like discriminating against me for having a criminal record; men are much more likely than women to have criminal records, yet nobody cares if we're treated like shit for having a rap sheet.
One might say, "Yeah, but you CHOSE to commit crimes." True, but I didn't choose to be a man, and have that increased likelihood of being a criminal, any more than she chose to be a woman, and therefore have a uterus, and thus an increased likelihood that her employee would view her pregnancy as a burden (theoretically, a father could also be distracted from his job by stuff going on with his kids, but in practice, it's usually moms who have to leave early, come in late, skip work, etc. to take care of their kids). Also, she probably chose to engage in unprotected sex as well, which resulted in getting pregnant.
If he says "Kill it," maybe that's just a suggestion, anyhow. Did he tell her she had to kill it? Maybe it was just a joke; is it really that big a deal. So he tells a joke that someone doesn't like. Does it make him a misogynist?
But, he says he simply didn't say it, which could quit possibly be true. Or maybe he asked her, "Are you going to kill it," which, in this day and age, quite a lot of women do. In fact, killing it is considered a human right, so what's the big deal about him asking her, "Are you going to exercise your human right to kill it?" After all, we want to destigmatize abortion, right? How better to destigmatize it than to go around telling women, "Kill it!" so they realize they have the moral support of their culture in making such a decision? Thus, Bloomberg should be saluted by white knights as a defender of feminism.
If he says, "Kill it," he's just encouraging her to be a strong, independent woman who puts career first rather than letting kids get in the way; how could any women's rights advocate find that offensive? Having kids, especially a large number of kids, has historically hindered women in their careers, and all he would have been doing was saying, "C'mon, don't let this get in the way of your advancement; you have a whole generation of ambitious young women who look up to you and you let them down if you focus on family instead of being focused on work every bit as a much as a man would be."
What's the big deal, just that it would've been a comment directed at a woman, that a man wouldn't have been subjected to, because men don't get pregnant; and thus, therefore the comment is discriminatory?
Well, that's kinda like discriminating against me for having a criminal record; men are much more likely than women to have criminal records, yet nobody cares if we're treated like shit for having a rap sheet.
One might say, "Yeah, but you CHOSE to commit crimes." True, but I didn't choose to be a man, and have that increased likelihood of being a criminal, any more than she chose to be a woman, and therefore have a uterus, and thus an increased likelihood that her employee would view her pregnancy as a burden (theoretically, a father could also be distracted from his job by stuff going on with his kids, but in practice, it's usually moms who have to leave early, come in late, skip work, etc. to take care of their kids). Also, she probably chose to engage in unprotected sex as well, which resulted in getting pregnant.
If he says "Kill it," maybe that's just a suggestion, anyhow. Did he tell her she had to kill it? Maybe it was just a joke; is it really that big a deal. So he tells a joke that someone doesn't like. Does it make him a misogynist?
But, he says he simply didn't say it, which could quit possibly be true. Or maybe he asked her, "Are you going to kill it," which, in this day and age, quite a lot of women do. In fact, killing it is considered a human right, so what's the big deal about him asking her, "Are you going to exercise your human right to kill it?" After all, we want to destigmatize abortion, right? How better to destigmatize it than to go around telling women, "Kill it!" so they realize they have the moral support of their culture in making such a decision? Thus, Bloomberg should be saluted by white knights as a defender of feminism.
If he says, "Kill it," he's just encouraging her to be a strong, independent woman who puts career first rather than letting kids get in the way; how could any women's rights advocate find that offensive? Having kids, especially a large number of kids, has historically hindered women in their careers, and all he would have been doing was saying, "C'mon, don't let this get in the way of your advancement; you have a whole generation of ambitious young women who look up to you and you let them down if you focus on family instead of being focused on work every bit as a much as a man would be."
