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Can’t have it both ways you idiots

Democrat women now are saying that women need paid time off work because of their periods.

I have no words.

Okay, maybe I have some words.

For the love of little green apples, what the pluperfect hell are they doing? You cannot be ‘women can do anything men can do’ (which is most assuredly NOT true) and then need to call off work for your period.

They’re saying that having a period is a gynecologic ‘procedure’. No, a procedure is surgery. Uterine contractions to expel the uterine lining is not.

And then they call it ‘economic violence’ to not let women off to eat ice cream and lounge on their couches. For the 15% (an absurdly high number) who claim to have debilitating periods, they should have doctor’s notes. This is already covered under most employer’s policies.

To use the word ‘violence’ diminishes the word. It is not violence to not let someone stay home because of their period. It’s a fact of life.

You cannot claim that your period is keeping you from working while also wanting equal pay and equal rights. All that does is mean that you are not equal and that you are not reliable. And that you are a strain on an employer’s payroll and insurance rates. There’s no net worth to an employer to hire women if this is a thing.

Either you suck it up and do your job or you stay home, permanently. That’s what being equal is.

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16 responses to “Can’t have it both ways you idiots”

  1. boneman1959 Avatar
    boneman1959

    No offence but TBH some of them should NOT come to work.

    Misery LOVES company. Company SELDOM reciprocates.

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  2. C.R.C. Avatar
    C.R.C.

    I was chatting with a friend from Japan , they wanted to know what American women were like . I said that many had taken the women’s lib to the extreme . Now most women in the U.S. think they can go toe to toe with Superman , and not mess up their makeup. They want to do everything a man can do , they want to get tattoos ,and smoke and drink and cuss , and in trying to do everything men can do , they have forgotten that they are very good at some of the things men can’t do . I do not want to date someone covered in ink , chewing tobacco guzzling whisky that swears better that seal team 6 . If I wanted that I’d go up to the U.P. and hook up with a lumberjack (or is it Jill?)

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    1. crazyeighter Avatar
      crazyeighter

      “Hook up with a lumberjack”?

      CRC, I got some bad news for you.

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  3. Irving Avatar
    Irving

    Extending the concept….if 4-6 days/month, from age ~13 to age ~50, female humans “are not equal and that you are not reliable” for purposes of productive work, then does that also extend to the rationality required to evaluate political condidates and render a competent decision regarding political leadership selection? How about economic decisions, as in “running a country, or federal bureau thereof, running a state as governor, a city as mayor, running a business, as in “CEO””?

    If so, for a start, the 19th Amendment must immediately be repealed to protect the American political structure – and the country it is intended to support and manage – from being subjected to biologically imbalanced irrationality, and employment restrictions created and applied forthwith.

    Given who’s propagating this, I call Bullshit…..but we really do need to make a decision. Either women (womyns?) are equal in the ways that matter or they are not. If the answer is “are” then they need to start acting like it and requirements need to be estabished and enforced rationally and uniformly; if the answer is “not” then ratonality requires establishing protective barriers nation- and business-wide.

    And, the answer is not the Leftist Paroxysm “give men (myns?) 5 days/month off as balanced compensation;” this planet rotates consistently every single day, has done so for about 4.5 billion years, and is projected to reliably continue doing so for at least another 5 billion. Some things just. do. not. change.

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  4. Don Curton Avatar
    Don Curton

    I’m with Boneman, there were times I kinda wished some of my female co-workers would have stayed home.

    That said, I’ve been told I wasn’t all that pleasant to work with either, but at least I was consistently unpleasant 365 days a year.

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  5. hvlee Avatar
    hvlee

    I used to keep a calendar on one of my female co-workers. I wish they’d given her a few days off each month.

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  6. Lokki Avatar
    Lokki

    I am retired now, and out of the office space. Having said that, during my career I probably supervised directly or indirectly a couple of hundred women.

    So, having established some meager bona fides I’ll make two observations:

    1. Menstrual periods were never (almost never?) a problem that came to my attention. True, I’m a male, and sure some women occasionally called in “sick” but it was never regular pattern of missing 3 or 4 days a month. The women, if they suffered, and I am sure some did, suffered in silence and did their jobs.

    2. As the ” Women =Men” movement gained momentum, I had an interesting incident that I’ve always remembered – I had a staff of 20 women and 1 lone guy. One day he came in my office and said in a patient but weary voice:

    “Why is it when it’s time to clean the break-room, we’re all the same, but when there’s something heavy to lift I’m the only man in the office?”

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  7. Nemo Avatar
    Nemo

    I read an anecdotal story about women in the weaving mills in MA some years ago. The story was that after some time had passed, almost all of the women’s periods synced up to the same week each month.

    Can you imagine having 100 or so women on each of 4-5 floors of a waving mill having their periods all at the same time?

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  8. Shari Brock Avatar
    Shari Brock

    It’s not anecdotal, women do sync together the longer they are in consistent vicinity with each other. However, wrt “Can you imagine having 100 or so women on each of 4-5 floors of a waving mill having their periods all at the same time?” — paint with a broad brush often? Even commentary above makes notation of “one female co-worker” here or there, not EVERY SINGLE one. …Edited…
    (Although, I, too, share the sentiment of those suggesting certain ones should just stay home.)

    That being said, being a retired, female office co-worker as well, the person I always felt needed an extra day off was the janitor that had to empty the trash cans from inside every stall every day during the week to ten day period (pun fully intended) every month. 0>;~}

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  9. John Down-the-Hall-third door on the Right Avatar
    John Down-the-Hall-third door on the Right

    As a man, I guess I had better request paid leave for my own daily abdominal contractions. Lord knows I can generate hefty payload some mornings.

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  10. Tennessee Budd Avatar
    Tennessee Budd

    Nemo, it happens. My then-wife and her 3 daughters usually synched up. It wasn’t fun.

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  11. steves6 Avatar
    steves6

    So they women they’re talking about, I can’t imagine that they’re very productive when they are at work.

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  12. TRoy Avatar
    TRoy

    “economic violence ” is a term invented and thrown around by psuedointellectuals who have never experienced real violence. This crowd loves to conflate terms to give their feeble- minded ideas false credence. The gullible low- information types who lack critical thinking ability love these sorts of terms to whip out of their bullshit toolbox whenever the opportunity presents.

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  13. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    You know we live in soft times when having to work during your period is considered “violence “.

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  14. Midwest Chick Avatar
    Midwest Chick

    boneman–If they can’t behave then their employers shouldn’t be obligated to keep them.

    CRC–See crazyeighter’s comment…

    crazyeighter–Well played.

    Irving–I’m letting this comment go unedited, but please go for brevity next time. I do agree with the repeal of the 19th Amendment as well as disallowing women from being in political positions. If they can’t go to work because of their periods, they shouldn’t be entrusted with the power that comes with those positions.

    Don–Consistency is a virtue.

    hvlee–If she was that bad, she should have been fired.

    Lokki–I got a bit of that being one of the only women without a child. On days when the office closed early (but still needed one person to stay), I got the short stick every time.

    Nemo–I lived in an all women’s dorm and it’s a thing.

    Shari–I think you need to rein it in a bit. Ragging on other commentors isn’t done here and this is your first warning. And the point is that the women putting forward this legislation aren’t going to limit it to one or two. It’ll be paid time off for all women (how are they going to prove they’re on their period) and will put an economic drain on employers.

    John–Excellent point.

    TN Budd–Yep, it’s a thing.

    steves–I imagine they are less than productive.

    TRoy–Yep. It’s the same morphing of language that took sexual assault from actual contact to a glance on the street.

    Joe–Exactly.

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  15. Old NFO Avatar
    Old NFO

    I have to agree with Lokki. It was seldom an issue, and never brought to my attention.

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