Posted on 02/11/2021 2:18:57 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games chief Yoshiro Mori is expected to resign Thursday after he sparked equal measures of outrage and blushes in Japan by claiming women talk too much in meetings.
The decision comes after a torrent of criticism from politicians to sports stars at a time the already delayed event is still under a cloud due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
Mori, an 83-year-old former prime minister known for public gaffes, allegedly told members of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) “board of directors meetings with many women take a lot of time.”
“When you increase the number of female executive members, if their speaking time isn’t restricted to a certain extent, they have difficulty finishing, which is annoying,” he said, as some members of the council reportedly laughed.
He then went on to compound his observation.
“Women are competitive,” Mori reportedly added. “When one person raises a hand, others think they need to speak up as well. That’s why everyone speaks.”
He later retracted his words at a news conference, acknowledging it was inappropriate – but when pressed on whether he really thought women talked too much, he replied: “I don’t listen to women that much lately, so I don’t know.” .
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When i ran my meetings (and they were fun) i mostly talked. I had some big ones where i had 50 people who all had to buy in to some stuff we were doing. Those i let people talk. Always had detailed agenda and i always wrote the minutes. Sometimes the meeting didn’t resemble the minutes much.
I can only speak anecdotally, but my ex-wife certainly did.
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He's not wrong.
Men are being muzzled in every way, grow some fn balls
Well, it’s not a lie.
Many studies over the years repeatedly show that women speak about 3 times the words-per-day as men. That’s the science, and anyone over 5 knows it is true.
Guess you can no longer point that out though.
Another way to put it.
Female comedians joke about how they talk too much too....
Truth is now verboten
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