Posted on 07/07/2020 1:02:00 PM PDT by grundle
Boeing communications chief Niel Golightly just quit his job because an employee complained that 33 years ago, he had written that he was against women in combat.
According to this article from Reuters, in a 1987 article, Golightly had written:
“At issue is not whether women can fire M-60s, dogfight MiGs, or drive tanks. Introducing women into combat would destroy the exclusively male intangibles of war fighting and the feminine images of what men fight for – peace, home, family.”
33 years after Golightly’s article was published, a Boeing employee complained about the above quote.
Golightly responded by resigning.
This is beyond insane.
Everyone says things that someone somewhere might someday complain about. By the above logic, no one should ever have any job ever.
I wonder how radical leftists are going to square their current “cancel culture” with their current promise of a guaranteed job that is being promised as part of their Green New Deal.
Doubt they could build the B-52 today.
East or west,
Incest is best.
Yea Team! What a guy!
Why did the damned fool resign?? It is time and past time to start standing up to these intimidations.
That’s not cancel culture, which is really a tactic used to stop speaking engagements. What you’re talking about here, is an effort to cause as many men as possible to be unemployed, homeless and without marriages and families. It’s an effort to decrease monetary support to conservative politicians and win elections for the left.
Some of you readers would choke, if you knew how many radical feminist organizations are out there including professional and investor groups. I doubt that we’ll see any recovery from the trend in our lifetimes, unless a horrible disaster causes our economy to collapse irretrievably and forces reliance on men for much more crude and far more distributed production of necessities (likely soon).
The effort to put men out of reasonably paid employment, by the way, has been going on for over 40 years with the help of employers. When they started supporting feminism, they hoped to have more subservient (first) and cheaper (second) labor.
As a woman, I agree with his assessment. As a former Boeing employee, I agree with his decision to get the hell out of there.
I think a vast majority of the world’s literate population would agree that having women in combat is a good way to ensure a military disaster.
Since he wrote that in 1987, he probably said, “Screw it, now is the time to retire.” Instead of fighting it and dealing with a bunch of crap, this time next month he’ll be fishing in Montana. Not a bad way to go, really.
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