I somehow missed the pronouns in your rant, so thanks for this. I thought the problem was that “she” wasn’t new, which did seem a bit overblown.
But guys who make fun of other guys by calling them girls? It was funny in Scrubs, with a guy who was supposed to be a complete asshole (at first). And even then it got old.
[snort]
Brilliant Poe.
Page 8, Citizenship
I think that’s meant to be how the company will behave, on a corporate level, but there is also something about employees being an ambassador when dealing with customers…how many customers have seen that video? I imagine all of them, really, but if it didn’t go viral?
Right, and these guys were drunk at a soccer game. They weren’t representing the company or dealing with customers. How far will this kind of thing go?!
The pussypass is like a get out of jail card. Only it’s a non transferable item.
Good on for you for stamping things down from the start. Those men haven’t actually committed a fireable offence, when it’s too late to reeducate. Hopefully, since you’re a man, they’ll actually think a little bit about the language they used; even if they protest to their friends about what happened, because that’s what people do when they get told off, that doesn’t mean it has no impact.
Were they drunk? They weren’t slurring or anything.
Firing is too much, but still “it’s happened in England too,” (as said on the video) is not an excuse. For one, it’s not a viral thing in England, probably partly because pussy is a ridiculous term here, and for two, if it did happen here too that’s not exactly an excuse. I assume that man was trying to use cultural relativity as an excuse, and thinking that English football fans are like this, because football is popular in England. Nice try.
Is it happening in rugby too? :smack:
‘Fuck her right in the pussy’ sounds a bit English-as-a-second-language.
Golly-gee! That sounds awesome! Sure wish I had me one of those “pussy-pass” thingamies you speak of.
And look at that! You just directed me to a demotivational poster that conflates two completely different stories!
I can feel my faith in womankind crumbling away already.
Seriously, my first thought on reading **Ibanez’s **post about “double standards” and how “women have it easy” was that it had to be satire. (Funniest part: “it’s about time . . .”)
I mean really!? When the article **Volemont **linked to explains:
So easy!
Well the main thing is you got to have a pussy, not be a pussy.
And you certainly are a card, my good man.
Yeah, now that you mention it, it’s hard not to hear it being said by Steve Martin and Dan Ackroyd’s “Wild and Crazy Guys,” doesn’t it?
“Look, Georg! Foxes!”
“Oooh! I want to fuck one, right in the pussy!”
Now you’ve got me picturing Tommy Wisseau, since, in the Room, apparently you fucked in the belly button.
OK,I am just curious- bear with me, please, for a slight shift on the actual event.
Imagine, instead of a female reporter just doing her job, that FiredGuy’s buddy yelled that at FiredGuy’s BOSS and boss’s family. The family, in my hypothetical, is also just enjoying a fun afternoon at the game. Buddy sees them and yells “Fuck her right in the pussy!!!” at boss and family, because he thinks it’d be funny. So FiredGuy, instead of saying “oh shit, that’s my boss and his wife and daughter” instead tries to argue that it was “fucking hilarious” and that the boss’s daughter was just lucky not to have a vibrator stuck in her ear.Would you be surprised – or concerned, or dismayed – that FiredGuy lost his job due to his innocent activities while totally off work and not representing the company in any way? He just told the boss’s daughter that she should consider herself lucky that no one stuck a sex toy in her ear. And he does it in a way to garner as much possible attention as possible. Like… I dunno…saying it while on tv?
Fired? Would he be? Should he be? Even though he wasn’t at work, and was not representing the company?
What if it were said to one of the employees he manages? He’s an assistant manager, or rather, he was. They aren’t at work, so it’s ok?
In this case, he didn’t address his comments to his boss and the boss’s wife and daughter, or one of the people he manages. Or not JUST to them. He also addressed god only knows how many other executives, executives families, and customers who might watch that broadcast. And instead of saying, “oh shit, I’m sorry,” he doubled down and said “It’s fucking hilarious!”
So why does he have some greater expectation of privacy when saying that to a reporter. on TV, with cameras rolling, than he would if saying it directly to his employers? This is not a case of poor employee, busted for his innocent off-duty activities. He was looking for attention. Did he think that no one in Toronto might recognize him? That bosses or employees or customers would never ever see it? He might as well have been shouting “Look at me! Look at me!” Well, people looked. More than he expected perhaps, but certainly not more than he should have expected. Again, He got himself – deliberately – on television, in order to act like a complete ass.
I have done a lot of stupid ass shit, and I am grateful that when I was young g and stupid, the ability to put it on YouTube did not yet exist, but damn. Maybe he was drunk, or feeling carefree because he was a game, or not at work, or whatever. He looked for attention,because it was funny, and he got it.
If he hadn’t sought the attention, I might feel bad for him. As it stands? Not even a little bit.
“C’mon! NOBODY watches CBC!”
:dubious:
There is also the flip side. The reporter was just trying to do her job, when she was rudely interrupted for a “harmless prank”. This “harmless prank” never happens to male reporters. How soon is it until the producers get sick of this, and stop sending female reporters out for live spots?
If she’s no longer able to do live spots, does this not affect her job, through no fault of her own?
You’ve nicely summed up what I wanted to say but it would have been cumbersome and awkward. This is a good point that you’ve nailed.
And, for those of us who aren’t journalists, picture being assigned to give a presentation to your company and, while you try to be professional, you’re constantly being interrupted by obnoxious assholes in front of your supervisors and co-workers.
Wanna bet ?
Links, please.
Or not. Personally, I don’t think anyone should watch “news” programming on television; the corollary to this is that I don’t think anyone should put “news” programming on television or participate in the activity in any way.
Go to liveleak and type FHRITP in their search engine. You’ll find male victims.
