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by Delphi..
I Can Too Wear What I
Want
I was poking in the news
again, before my dinky stinky ISP decided I am not cool enough to live,
and therefore will be denied access to ordinary text files, instead of
just funky graphics and useful things that tell me how much money I owe
them.
Anyway, I found this blurb
about a bill in California that prohibits
discrimination in the workplace
based on someone's perceived gender. In other words, you can't fire some
guy for looking femme or some woman for looking butch. Mind you, California
already prohibits job-based discrimination on the basis of someone's gender
or sexual orientation. Needless to say, there are opponents of this bill,
who throw their hands up in disgust, crying, "Honest American businesses
will be forced to allow cross-dressers at work!"
Really, folks. Let us get
a grip here. First of all, isn't it kind of obvious by now that there is
only one legitimate reason to discriminate against a worker? That reason
being, for the slowpokes in the audience, that the someone in question
is incapable of doing the job which they are seeking. Of course, if you
have a dress code in your business, all well and good, but I have to point
out that these are often sexist and discriminatory as well. After all,
if a woman can
wear two earrings to work,
provided they match and do not exceed a certain length, why can't a man?
Second of all, if you do
have a legitimate dress code, and a worker who is a cross-dresser (notice
we're talking men here; no one ever seems to object to women in suits),
and you've made it clear to your worker how they must dress and they refuse,
what is the big deal? How is this any different than firing a cook for
working barefoot? My personal opinion about cross-dressers is that if you
are clean and neat and dressed appropriately for your position who cares
whether you wear a dress? But that's just me.
While I feel certain that
there must be valid circumstances of some woman who was denied a promotion
because she was too much like one of the guys, or some fellow who was fired
because he refused to join in a round of jokes centered on a) fags or b)
bitches, I have to wonder at the necessity of a law that says, "You cannot
discriminate against a person who doesn't meet your gender expectations."
Or
maybe not, and that's the
sad part. Once you get past all the silly scenarios which present themselves
when you hear about a law like this (which was approved by lawmakers, in
case you are wondering) what it boils down to is that we have to pass laws
which require us to behave like grown-ups. You'd think we'd learn that
on our own, but apparently not. Anyone else find that pathetic? |
 
 
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