Posted on 05/13/2022 9:21:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Hair loss is far more common among men than women, so using the term is “inherently related to sex” — and equivalent to commenting on the size of a woman’s breasts, the employment tribunal said, according to the UK Telegraph.
The finding — made by three judges who lament their own lack of locks in the judgment — came in the case of an electrician, Tony Finn, who sued a small Yorkshire-based family business over the term.
Things first got hairy when one of Finn’s supervisors, Jamie King, allegedly called him a “fat bald c—” and he was later fired from the West Yorkshire-based British Bung, which makes wooden cask plugs, according to the outlet.
The accusation resulted in the panel, headed by Judge Jonathan Brain, deliberating on if King’s baldness bash was simply insulting — or rose to the level of harassment.
The ruling noted that the company’s lawyer “was right to submit that women as well as men may be bald” but contended that “baldness is much more prevalent in men than women.”
The finding also declared that criticizing Finn for his hairless head was “degrading” and “humiliating.”
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I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you
PURSUIT!!
HARRASSMENT!!
THREATS!!!!
Aww...All I wanted was a place to lay my head....
The pussification of men in the UK is well under way.
What a world, eh? No norms. Y’know, except for the routine insanity of those who demand we adhere to their not-norms.
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