Yet another exploiting our daughters at work day

http://www.michaelmbates.com/ | April 25, 2002 | Michael M. Bates

[dvan]

Luvva Michael!!!

[DoughtyOne]

The only redeeming aspect of this sorry piece of carp idea, is that this is the last year it will be a take your daughter to work day. Next year it will be coed. Boys and girls will be taken to work. Oh the horrors.

This piece of trash idea stunk from day one. After two or three years of boys being included, this idea will drop like the albatros it is.

[AzJP]

He doesn't speak for me.

I didn't "mindlessly" take my daughter to work. She and I thought and talked about it.

If this guy really thinks that our day at work translated into unassailable evidence that we endorse the Ms. Foundation, feminism, and a radical leftist agenda, he is full of exretia. His translation skills are barely third grade.

Neither of us, none of those.

My daughter and I used that day to reinforce her conviction of never being a salary slave in a big corporation. Which helped her work for her Juris Doctorate and the Bar.

Lovely lady, she would also object to some mouth-foamer like this telling us what we think. He couldn't possibly know.

She'd be more vitriolic, in fewer words, then I if she read this. If she sees this guys knuckle-dragging, she'll laugh and tease me for reading what she calls "toilet graffiti".

But this "author" is welcome to his opinion......keeps those racks at the check-out stand full.

[Jolly Green]

Silly me! I consider every moment I spend with my daughters to be precious - regardless of the reason.

[SouthernFreebird]

The only way I could pry my teenage daughter away from school and her friends would be if I took her to get her nails done.....

[Semper Paratus]

How many waitresses, cashout clerks, toll takers will be bringing their daughters in to work?
Typical feminist elitist crap.

[DoughtyOne]

Sure is.

[Wm Bach]

One less day of government propoganda camp won't do the girls any harm. Take 'em to work and let them see the how the real world operates. Hopefully they will see through the idiocy being pushed in the public schools.

[miss marmelstein]

You said a mouthful! In my delicate youth I always worked as a secretary. When the daughters came in, parents would have them step around my desk as if something had died on it! Did they actually think that their kids would be inspired to become secretaries after seeing how they treated me??

[steve-b]

Still, it’s got to be a step up for Cheryl from the days when she was fighting Clinton’s removal from office.

She obviously thought that servicing the Sink Emperor Himself was a great boost to female self-esteem.

[smithson]

You have your right to your sexist mentality. There's plenty of knuckle dragging sexist women who can't understand how sexist "take your daughter to work day" is.

It's time that these Neanderthals own up to their sexism.

[Harrison Bergeron]

I would urge all men working for employers who still practice this bigoted event to get on the horn immediately with their HR departments and politely request that your son be allowed to participate. When they decline or argue, stay polite. Simply remind them that "there are laws" about this sort of discrimination. If that doesn't work, here's the all-holds-barred loophole: Insist on being allowed to sit on the committee that plans the event for next year, with an eye towards including boys. While this doen't immediately break the TODTWD practice, the company has to obey its own rules regarding "gender discrimination" in the workplace and honor your request.

When I did the above, TODTWD was immediately cancelled and the "committee" of feminist malcontents disbanded rather than allow me a seat. I work for one of the the biggest employers in my state - my idea caught on here. It will work for you too.

There's more to what goes on around here than pounding keyboards.

[Paul C. Jesup]

'Take your daughters to work day' is also a constant reminder to school boys that they are second class citizens in this country.

[smithson]

Good work. You are one brave person.

[Harrison Bergeron]

And by the way... when I did this... I didn't have any kids. There's nothing preventing anyone - men or women - from speaking up for their co-workers who have sons. Certainly mothers with sons share the same concerns as fathers with sons - although, sadly, not all of them.

[Musket]

This day has morphed into "Take your CHILD to Work Day" where I work. Although I honestly don't know why. I mean they think that Martin Luther King is the only man in history worthy enough to justify having a day off for. Go figure.

[Jack Wilson]

If I took my daughter to my office it would convince her to be a stay-at-home mom.

[Harrison Bergeron]

"This day has morphed into "Take your CHILD to Work Day" where I work."

Yes, it took them a couple of years to get their act together, but my employer did the same thing, with participation limited by a lottery. Most people ignore it.

[krb]

If you insult him by implying his knuckles drag the floor, am I allowed to insult you by implying you have lots of chest hair?

[smithson]

"...is also a constant reminder to school boys that they are second class citizens in this country."

You said it. I wonder what it does to their all important "self-esteem".