Bejito1983 said:
A woman I know worked in an office only with women. The only man worked in a separate office and was the boss. She told me it was hell. One of her colleagues (a woman) insulted her, made fun of her and blamed her for anything and everything, just out of jealousy. She had depression, attempted suicide, fell into a coma, after her coma she was no longer the same and it destroyed her life and that of her family (she has two children). She told me verbatim that "women are the worst". I worked in a big company. There was a conflict management service. Over 75% of conflicts were between women. These conflicts were for trivial things such as "she asks me too personal questions so I insulted her", "she is a hypocrite", etc. In this company, for a while I had several women as a bosses.I received criticism of my work just for insignificant details. Whereas since the management team has changed (they are now women and men), I am told that I am doing a good job and that as long as the job is done it doesn't matter if I wrote in blue or in black. All the people I spoke to told me the same thing, which is that it is difficult to work with a woman as a boss because they focus too much on unnecessary details. People think misogynistic remarks are made by men, while research shows the majority of sexist slurs on Twitter come from accounts owned by women. So have more women in companies will not solve misogyny. |
In scoping out your profile, I couldn't help but be struck by the fact that this is only your 8th post here, though you've been a member for over three years now, and by the fact that one of your only other political posts (all of which are from this year) is this one from early February wherein you explained how Covid-19 is caused by obesity and compared mask mandates to "world war 3". My point being that...you know, you're not striking me as the most intellectually honest contributor we have in general, so I'm not really sure how much of your story I should just take at face value. I've got the feeling you're somebody who's inclined to see yourself as a victim when you are not and to interpret life through a strictly self-serving lens. That in the first place.
In the second place, yeah women can definitely be toxic and abusive toward other women for sure! I know that from my fair share of a lot of first-hand experience just living life. Hell, I've been that woman myself lots of times! There are certain kinds of abuse though that really do tend to specifically come from men in the overwhelming majority of cases. Rape threats would be one of those, for instance. Sexual violence in general would be another. These are the sorts of issues we're talking about here and the culprits clearly are predominantly men here. The primary form of misogyny women receive from other women online is what they call "slut-shaming", as in describing women one is perhaps envious of as whores, sluts, cunts, and other sex-specific insults implying that women, and women specifically mind you, should be modest, this sort of thing. That is not the crux of what's been going on at Activision-Blizzard and I think you know that.
Nope, giving women more decision-making power in the companies they work for won't eliminate sexist attitudes and it won't solve every problem. It might help solve THESE problems though, and that's why I agreed with Twintail.
