March 8th, 2006
Women: Learn to laugh or speak in public
Today is International Women’s Day and Suzy has an excellent riposte to another post suggesting that in order to help women get top jobs they should be encouraged to take up public speaking or stand-up comedy.
The original post - which has a bit of a ‘lovely girls’ vibe about it - also advocates women setting up blogs to “showcase their expertise”.
Haven’t we been down this road before?
March 8th, 2006 at 9:47 am
Women: Learn to cook or sew.
March 8th, 2006 at 10:18 am
Martin,
I can. But the world would be significantly better off if men learned as well.
March 8th, 2006 at 10:38 am
LOL @ Winds. Funny that, I was thinking the same thing. Martin, I’d say Men: learn not to be f*cking eejits. We’d all be better off then!
March 8th, 2006 at 10:46 am
I think Martin was taking the piss, surely.
March 8th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Women: Get a sense of humour.
March 8th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Yes ladies - that’s all we need - a sense of humour…I feel a post coming upon me
March 8th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Hmm… people seem to have completely misread my original post. I agree the original title was a bit troll-like, but it was meant to encourage discussion rather than cause offense.
I’m not talking about being able to tell jokes, I’m talking about being able to stand in front of an audience and showcase your achievements.
Statistics are showing that women score better than men, but yet they still don’t get as many top-level jobs. While having children plays a factor in this, I think that men might be just talk themselves up a bit more.
Days like International Women’s Day should be used to break down stereotypes. If I’ve caused offense then I’m sorry. It wasn’t intended, I’ll just have to learn to formulate my thoughts better.
I work in PR, a profession dominated by women so either I work with a load of comedians or with people that are passionate about their work and not afraid to shout about their results.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
mm Piaras left the same message on my blog..and I replied to it there…can’t help but think about the irony here…
March 8th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
My response to Piaras as posted in his comments:
“What women need to get promoted? Well that’s easy, forget the sense of humour and the genetalia. Women need wives, see it’s simple.
When men get promotion it is because the company/organisation whatever, knows that somewhere in the background there is a woman; be she wife, girlfriend, mother, or sister; she’s there, she will take care of the domestic, see that his pristine suits and shirts and ties are regularly taken to the dry-cleaners/ironed etc, she will remind him of things he’s forgotten, she will sort the sock drawer, the shirt pile, pick up his dirty clothes and put them where they should be. She will know where he has left his keys, work papers, passport, and that it’s about time he went for a check-up with the doctor, dentist, chriopidist, psychotherapist etc.
And of course in the case of wives, if there be offspring, she will go with them to the doctor, dentist, school meetings, school plays, recitals, concerts, ballet classes, music classes etc.
Women do have a sense of humour, we are just not good at getting paid for it.
What women need to be promoted is wives.
Wha’ya think about my sense of humour? Do I get the promotion?”
Hows that for a sense of humour? And being a woman, I need one.