Women have fought for equality and have made progress, but they’ve over-corrected.
Fighting to be heard is one thing.
Fighting to be an asshole is another.
I was interrupted during a godforsaken Zoom meeting and was told my input was shoddy before I could even say it. This was done by two women who were incorrect—the managers had already stated this but these women had to make their case.
This is not equality, it’s just being an asshole.
If a dog tried to tell me something that might be useful, I’d listen, but in the end, I was content to be treated in a way that would have gotten me a reprimand as a man. Why fight to help these women who I’m outperforming and competing against, or any of my coworkers? I have the highest production and the least errors. When a manager needs something done, they ask me. So it’s in my best interest to keep my mouth shut.
No one cares about me. So why the fuck should I care about anyone?
I could care about what people say, but why bother myself?
I’m a sucker for doing as much work as I do, but I can’t help it. Moving fast makes the day move faster for me, and like just about everything else, the more you do something, the better you get at it, and I’d rather listen than talk, or at least pretend to listen. If something useful comes along it’s a big enough shock to wake me up.
What people “think” doesn’t matter, except for the damage it can do. Evidence and data, or in this case, the law matters.
If I cared about what people thought, especially women in the workplace, I’d be even more miserable.
For context, these two women stretched a half hour meeting to an hour and a half, and I was interrupted three seconds into speaking.
The world is not fair and no one is equal, and I recognize I have brown privilege in lousy neighbors, but congratulations ladies. You are equal in my eyes, and in some ways even more than equal.
You’re just as big assholes as men, except with far less accountability.
I know not all women are like this, but if you leave a comment like that I’ll crucify you, just like a significant proportion of women reacted to men who tried to say the same thing.
We’re equal now, or at least pretending, which means I can call women out for being self-righteous cunts just like I could to a man.
Except I can’t interrupt, argue, or even complain about being interrupted by a woman at work without a call from HR.
Thank you all for this. I’m glad the world is ending and we’re all going to die.
We deserve it.