Too right. The people up in arms about this seemed to think he was going to be going around personally shoving tampons inside people when really all he does is spending allocations and admin.
Regardless of the role and his sex he’s been very poorly treated for someone that wanted a job, was the best candidate and publicly fired.
Quite right!
Making the role redundant because of misandrist outrage is not okay and very problematic.
I wish him all the best!
Colleague of mine raised a good point. Surely work to help lessen gender disparity in specific jobs should work both ways.
Workplaces should be trying to recruit more men to be nursery workers and art teachers and more women should be plant machinery operators and saturation divers.
If that’s the way targets are being set to reach gender parity in job roles then ‘period dignity officer’ might be one of those roles where the position is disproportionately filled by women.
It feels like a kind of wokeness gave him his job and another kind took it away.
He won’t win
Because nobody cares about sexism against men
He’ll just be told to man up and get another job
Ironically, as an ex-union rep who helped with quite a few sex discrimination cases, my knowledge of that in relation to men is quite limited lol.
But it does sound like he has a solid foundation for a case here tbh. Wouldn’t be surprised if he gets a modest settlement figure. Maybe, if he’s lucky, he will get his job back. Either way, the “activists” who have facilitated this are likely going to be the fuck-ups here by causing the employer to pay out money unnecessarily and divert theoretical funds from actual women’s support to pay this dude – who is bringing a sex discrimination claim (the irony of “woke” people lol; this is why I distance myself from “woke” activists even though I’m usually broadly on their side at times) – off.
As a woman who suffers quite considerably once a month, how refreshing to have a male champion this role. I’m white so does that mean I can’t campaign against racism? Every woman experiences periods differently so there is no woman who can champion every menstruating woman anyway.
Seems like an easy win from this layman’s point of view. If he was a woman would he still have a job? Yes. It seems that simple
Wouldn’t the sensible option have been to move him to another admin role, wait for this all to blow over, then restore his duties under a different job title, potentially shared with a female administrator?
Na, hang him out to dry for the media and then sack him. That’ll cover our backsides.
Essentially it seems his role is marketing, not counselling. I do see how some people would have an issue with a man who doesn’t experience periods counselling girls but thats not what he was doing, so firing him doesn’t make sense.
Whatever your thoughts on this situation are irrelevant.
If you condone the **abuse and threats** levied against him and the company, you are a shit person with shit beliefs.
Yeah, the guy deserves redress. They couldn’t have set him up to fail harder if they tried.
It’s like something out of a daily mash article.
Who on earth thought a man was the best choice to talk to young females in the first place? Embarrassment overload .These young gals/ladies need an empathetic ear not a sympathetic ear of a man .Some things ARE gender secular .
Shouldn’t it be a good thing that a guy was involved in a big way in an area they are typically ignorant on?
Funny how discrimination doesn’t seem to exist when the victim is a white man. Good on him and I hope he wins the case, sounds like a clear case of unfair dismissal.
I’ve seen this elsewhere and commented this.
“Absolutely ridiculous, congratulations everyone, you’ve officially made this sexist against men.”
A comment back said that if this was a post about erectile disfunction and a women got the job men wouldn’t be happy about taking advice from a person whom doesn’t have the genitalia, and to that my response is:
If I had erectile disfunction I’d have bigger problems to put energy into other than the person offering support. Besides, if that *were* the case and the women got fired instead feminists everywhere would be in outrage – this is exactly the same. He lost his job for being a man – that is sexist.
Said it says ago…that guy is getting 5 yrs salary and an non disclosure. Clever savvy guy. He’s prob disappointed it took as long for his position to reach the predicted climax.
Good. He was fired due to the complaints of sexist bigots.
I feel like this guy needs to win something, pretty shocking how he has been publicly forced out of a job.
What next? The person in charge of solving homelessness has the audacity to have a house?!
What a mess this was. Here was someone who just wanted to fight for people to get the help they needed. Only for gender politics and political correctness to ruin it all
This thing was stupid from start to finish.
It basically doesn’t matter whether they were right to recruit him for the role in the first place, because he’s right, he didn’t do anything wrong in applying for it.
He applied for a job, they decided against it, then treated him badly to appease the people angry about it, affecting his career. At the very least, they owed him some recompense for that.
They have terminated him because of his sex, and it’s not going to be hard for him to prove that to the bar employment tribunals demand (balance of probabilities).
They’ve also said that they are going to provide the services the role was for, in different ways, which means that this isn’t even necessarily a real redundancy – it’s not that the role became unnecessary.
They should have just offered him some cash to go in the first place. This was obviously going to happen.
Pretty open shut innit?
“We’re he a female, would he still be employed?”
That’s the opening line for his lawsuit, the answer is yes, so case closed it’s discrimination against a protected characteristic.
On another note I have a particular contempt for the bigots who hide behind progressive policy to advance their hatred.
Surely we need more men in these roles. Women have long said men don’t care about there issues, a man tries to have an impact and they get him fired?!
As well he should, he was sabotaged by baseless outrage whipped up on Mumsnet.
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Too right. The people up in arms about this seemed to think he was going to be going around personally shoving tampons inside people when really all he does is spending allocations and admin.
Regardless of the role and his sex he’s been very poorly treated for someone that wanted a job, was the best candidate and publicly fired.
Quite right!
Making the role redundant because of misandrist outrage is not okay and very problematic.
I wish him all the best!
Colleague of mine raised a good point. Surely work to help lessen gender disparity in specific jobs should work both ways.
Workplaces should be trying to recruit more men to be nursery workers and art teachers and more women should be plant machinery operators and saturation divers.
If that’s the way targets are being set to reach gender parity in job roles then ‘period dignity officer’ might be one of those roles where the position is disproportionately filled by women.
It feels like a kind of wokeness gave him his job and another kind took it away.
He won’t win
Because nobody cares about sexism against men
He’ll just be told to man up and get another job
Ironically, as an ex-union rep who helped with quite a few sex discrimination cases, my knowledge of that in relation to men is quite limited lol.
But it does sound like he has a solid foundation for a case here tbh. Wouldn’t be surprised if he gets a modest settlement figure. Maybe, if he’s lucky, he will get his job back. Either way, the “activists” who have facilitated this are likely going to be the fuck-ups here by causing the employer to pay out money unnecessarily and divert theoretical funds from actual women’s support to pay this dude – who is bringing a sex discrimination claim (the irony of “woke” people lol; this is why I distance myself from “woke” activists even though I’m usually broadly on their side at times) – off.
As a woman who suffers quite considerably once a month, how refreshing to have a male champion this role. I’m white so does that mean I can’t campaign against racism? Every woman experiences periods differently so there is no woman who can champion every menstruating woman anyway.
Seems like an easy win from this layman’s point of view. If he was a woman would he still have a job? Yes. It seems that simple
Wouldn’t the sensible option have been to move him to another admin role, wait for this all to blow over, then restore his duties under a different job title, potentially shared with a female administrator?
Na, hang him out to dry for the media and then sack him. That’ll cover our backsides.
Essentially it seems his role is marketing, not counselling. I do see how some people would have an issue with a man who doesn’t experience periods counselling girls but thats not what he was doing, so firing him doesn’t make sense.
Whatever your thoughts on this situation are irrelevant.
If you condone the **abuse and threats** levied against him and the company, you are a shit person with shit beliefs.
Yeah, the guy deserves redress. They couldn’t have set him up to fail harder if they tried.
It’s like something out of a daily mash article.
Who on earth thought a man was the best choice to talk to young females in the first place? Embarrassment overload .These young gals/ladies need an empathetic ear not a sympathetic ear of a man .Some things ARE gender secular .
Shouldn’t it be a good thing that a guy was involved in a big way in an area they are typically ignorant on?
Funny how discrimination doesn’t seem to exist when the victim is a white man. Good on him and I hope he wins the case, sounds like a clear case of unfair dismissal.
I’ve seen this elsewhere and commented this.
“Absolutely ridiculous, congratulations everyone, you’ve officially made this sexist against men.”
A comment back said that if this was a post about erectile disfunction and a women got the job men wouldn’t be happy about taking advice from a person whom doesn’t have the genitalia, and to that my response is:
If I had erectile disfunction I’d have bigger problems to put energy into other than the person offering support. Besides, if that *were* the case and the women got fired instead feminists everywhere would be in outrage – this is exactly the same. He lost his job for being a man – that is sexist.
Said it says ago…that guy is getting 5 yrs salary and an non disclosure. Clever savvy guy. He’s prob disappointed it took as long for his position to reach the predicted climax.
Good. He was fired due to the complaints of sexist bigots.
I feel like this guy needs to win something, pretty shocking how he has been publicly forced out of a job.
What next? The person in charge of solving homelessness has the audacity to have a house?!
What a mess this was. Here was someone who just wanted to fight for people to get the help they needed. Only for gender politics and political correctness to ruin it all
This thing was stupid from start to finish.
It basically doesn’t matter whether they were right to recruit him for the role in the first place, because he’s right, he didn’t do anything wrong in applying for it.
He applied for a job, they decided against it, then treated him badly to appease the people angry about it, affecting his career. At the very least, they owed him some recompense for that.
They have terminated him because of his sex, and it’s not going to be hard for him to prove that to the bar employment tribunals demand (balance of probabilities).
They’ve also said that they are going to provide the services the role was for, in different ways, which means that this isn’t even necessarily a real redundancy – it’s not that the role became unnecessary.
They should have just offered him some cash to go in the first place. This was obviously going to happen.
Pretty open shut innit?
“We’re he a female, would he still be employed?”
That’s the opening line for his lawsuit, the answer is yes, so case closed it’s discrimination against a protected characteristic.
On another note I have a particular contempt for the bigots who hide behind progressive policy to advance their hatred.
Surely we need more men in these roles. Women have long said men don’t care about there issues, a man tries to have an impact and they get him fired?!
As well he should, he was sabotaged by baseless outrage whipped up on Mumsnet.