Men's Temper Tantrums That Bother Women May Be Sex Discrimination (9th Circuit Strikes Again)

ASAP Newsletter ^ | September 2005 | Margaret Hart Edwards

[millefleur]

Those same behaviors are considered assault when directed at a police officer.

Men who are intimidating KNOW what they are accomplishing by their actions.

[LibertyRocks]

I understand your point, and maybe canned on the spot is a little too "zero tolerance". However, if that screaming and yelling is done in public (in front of customers, or in the presence of fellow co-workers) to humiliate a worker then they should be fired. As I said I've been in management and I've had to work with extremely incompetent workers as well - but I've NEVER needed to yell at someone to get my point across.

Yelling at a subordinate only causes more problems. It's the reason I try as a parent not to yell at my children as well - it represents a loss of control.

[DumpsterDiver]

... the "reasonable woman" standard ...

Not goin' there.

Aw, go ahead. Those words are just begging for a snarky retort. :)

[RetiredArmy]

So much for "gender equality." They want to be the same as men. They now dress to look like men. But, they want their own little protection laws. I work for a screaming maniac. She is a female and I am a male. She yells, F-bombs fly, loses her temper, her cool, her MIND! But, of course, she is a woman and I am a man, so I should be able to understand that she is "upset" with someone. These attacks are not directed at me, but against others, yet I am the one who has to listen to them. Go figure.

[EGPWS]

What B.S. Some men find it more intimidating than other men, as some women will find it more intimidating than other women and, some men will find it more intimidating than some women.

You will never make it to the 9th.

You simply make too much sense!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Three women working for a labor union, the National Education Association, sued for gender discrimination claiming that the NEA created a sex-based hostile work environment...

[RJS1950]

Not just tantrums, but out and out derogatory references about men in front of men.

[Exton1]

This is out right socialism. It is the employers work place and they should be able to run it as they see fit. Remember there is no constitutional right to work, but there is one for free speech.

It is becoming more apparent that it is becoming harder and harder to get rid of bad employees, again socialism. Employers will be sued if they do not hire woman, and will be sued if they do not treat them like queens. Meanwhile men are being turned into eunuchs, and society is falling a part. A bitchy female is praised, a masculine male is ridiculed. I still think we would be all better off if woman were at home, barefoot and pregnant.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Not if you're male white and over 21

These Judges need to be removed from this bench and forbidden to even THINK about practicing law somewhere.

Preferably at the end of a Noose.

[Junior]

I guess it would be gender discrimination. Any man treated like this would have hauled off and belted the obnoxious lout.

[Dashing Dasher]

[EGPWS]

Yelling at a subordinate only causes more problems. It's the reason I try as a parent not to yell at my children as well - it represents a loss of control.

Yes, well said.

It represents a loss of control NOT sex discrimination.

[stumpy]

The ninth circuit sets itself up for another smack down.

[Humidston]

Agreed. Women in the workplace can be vicious. Furthermore, they hide their anger and lash out in a subtle, passive aggressive way.

I have never worked with a man who acted the way some women do!

[Kirkwood]

Huh?

[peacebaby]

You have no idea, PaulaB, how this hits me. I worked for a man here in Atlanta who has the reputation of a screamer. I got tired of being his whipping boy. One time he was screaming at me so hard on his cell phone, he had to pull over! Some times he'd get so red in the face I thought I'd have to give him CPR.

That SOB! Won't ANYONE - I don';t care who he or she is or how much they're worth - No one will ever disrespect me again.

SOB pays the city off. No one has ever sued him.

[.cnI redruM]

I almost want to take up for the 9th Short-Circuit on this one. A supervisor where I work wanted to divest himself of a female employee. The Federal Government makes that harder than finding Bin Ladin in a dust storm. So he camped out by her desk and found reasons to scream at her like it was a Howard Dean rally. This continued for four days running.

Ironically, she ended up finding a new job. She now makes more than I do and more importantly more than him...

[rockabyebaby]

Get these women OUT of the work place, I can't stand this. Everything is sexual harassment, what a bunch of babies. Whiners.

[EGPWS]

Not just tantrums, but out and out derogatory references about men in front of men.

Sex discrimination should be removed and replaced by a simple "poor working attitude" and they should be terminated.

[Humidston]

I still think we would be all better off if woman were at home, barefoot and pregnant.

You're so precious.... ;-)