Comments on: Boss Admits to Firing Woman Because of Her Gender Identity http://thecurvature.com/2009/10/12/boss-admits-to-firing-woman-because-of-her-gender-identity/ Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Questions about life and death, plus other linkage. « Small-Town Elitist http://thecurvature.com/2009/10/12/boss-admits-to-firing-woman-because-of-her-gender-identity/#comment-15036 Questions about life and death, plus other linkage. « Small-Town Elitist Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:25:43 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=6787#comment-15036 [...] Cara at the Curvature has a post about a boss who fired his employee because of her gender identity. [...] [...] Cara at the Curvature has a post about a boss who fired his employee because of her gender identity. [...]

]]> By: Jaimie http://thecurvature.com/2009/10/12/boss-admits-to-firing-woman-because-of-her-gender-identity/#comment-14988 Jaimie Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:25:56 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=6787#comment-14988 What a douchebag! All I read was "I like everything to go my way and revolve around me and this makes me uncomfortable and I don't like that." People like you make me uncomfortable Mr. Brumby so I would like to you to go away now please. Thankyou. What a douchebag!

All I read was “I like everything to go my way and revolve around me and this makes me uncomfortable and I don’t like that.”

People like you make me uncomfortable Mr. Brumby so I would like to you to go away now please. Thankyou.

]]> By: Anon Ymous http://thecurvature.com/2009/10/12/boss-admits-to-firing-woman-because-of-her-gender-identity/#comment-14980 Anon Ymous Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:31:19 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=6787#comment-14980 “It makes me think about things I don’t like to think about, particularly at work … I think it’s unsettling to think of someone dressed in women’s clothing with male sexual organs inside that clothing.” Uck. What fucking business is it of yours to be thinking of the sexual organs of "someone dressed in women's clothing" in the first fucking place? (yes, I know Cara said much the same thing already, but I'm appalled). “It makes me think about things I don’t like to think about, particularly at work … I think it’s unsettling to think of someone dressed in women’s clothing with male sexual organs inside that clothing.”

Uck. What fucking business is it of yours to be thinking of the sexual organs of “someone dressed in women’s clothing” in the first fucking place?

(yes, I know Cara said much the same thing already, but I’m appalled).

]]> By: Anna http://thecurvature.com/2009/10/12/boss-admits-to-firing-woman-because-of-her-gender-identity/#comment-14977 Anna Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:31:21 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=6787#comment-14977 The fuck, dude. The absolute fuck. The fuck, dude. The absolute fuck.

]]> By: kaninchenzero http://thecurvature.com/2009/10/12/boss-admits-to-firing-woman-because-of-her-gender-identity/#comment-14970 kaninchenzero Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:31:36 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=6787#comment-14970 I had this conversation with my manager and the director of human resources at a job I had ten years ago. Except it wasn't even me saying I was gong to transition; it was about rumors going around the office that I was. I got fired ninety days later for inadequate communication skills. Which I'm sure was completely unrelated. I had this conversation with my manager and the director of human resources at a job I had ten years ago. Except it wasn’t even me saying I was gong to transition; it was about rumors going around the office that I was.

I got fired ninety days later for inadequate communication skills. Which I’m sure was completely unrelated.

]]> By: polerin http://thecurvature.com/2009/10/12/boss-admits-to-firing-woman-because-of-her-gender-identity/#comment-14969 polerin Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:27:02 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=6787#comment-14969 Unfortunately my senator won't consider voting for it because he feels it "goes to far" in an unspecified way. **Sigh** Unfortunately my senator won’t consider voting for it because he feels it “goes to far” in an unspecified way. **Sigh**

]]> By: SunlessNick http://thecurvature.com/2009/10/12/boss-admits-to-firing-woman-because-of-her-gender-identity/#comment-14968 SunlessNick Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:23:52 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=6787#comment-14968 <em>Brumby called her transition unnatural, but said he didn’t make moral judgments while acknowledging others would. He said that some in the legislature would view Glenn’s transition as “liberal or ultra-liberal” and could lose faith in the office’s required neutrality.</em> "I'm a bigot, but don't want to be called on it, almost as much as I don't want to be called on accepting someone's identity by other bigots." Also, I like (for sufficiently small values of like) how Brumby makes firing transpeople based on their identity out to be the neutral position. Brumby called her transition unnatural, but said he didn’t make moral judgments while acknowledging others would. He said that some in the legislature would view Glenn’s transition as “liberal or ultra-liberal” and could lose faith in the office’s required neutrality.

“I’m a bigot, but don’t want to be called on it, almost as much as I don’t want to be called on accepting someone’s identity by other bigots.”

Also, I like (for sufficiently small values of like) how Brumby makes firing transpeople based on their identity out to be the neutral position.

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