A female academic at Clarissa’s Blog blasphemes the dogma of equality by criticizing women employees. The writer calls herself a feminist, but how could she be when she is a heretic in this way? She seems to want the social benefits of calling herself feminist when she clearly is not. Her essay illustrates why the workplace is a happier place when it is dominated by men. She writes under the heading “I Don’t Want to Hire Women:”

Yes, I said it. You cringed when you read it and I cringed when I wrote it, and even more so when the thought first occurred to me. I am a woman, a feminist, a mother, and a passionate entrepreneur. I don’t just stand for equality – I have crashed the glass ceiling in every aspect of my life. I get extremely angry when I come across articles that insist there are gender differences that extend beyond physiology. I am fortunate to have had female role models who taught me through their own examples that I can accomplish absolutely anything I desire.

Over the years, I have hired outstanding women – educated, intelligent and highly articulate. Yet, I am exhausted. I have become profoundly tired of being a therapist and a babysitter, of being drawn into passive-aggressive mental games and into constantly questioning my own worth as a manager. I have had several women who quit to stay home to “figure out what to do next.” No, not to stay home and care for children, but to mooch of [sic] a husband or a boyfriend while soul searching (aka: taking a language class or learning a new inapplicable skill that could be acquired after work). Incidentally, I have not had a single male employee quit with no plan in mind.

I have had women cry in team meetings, come to my office to ask me if I still like them and create melodrama over the side of the office their desk was being placed. I am simply incapable of verbalizing enough appreciation to female employees to satiate their need for it for at least a week’s worth of work. Here is one example to explain. My receptionist was resigning and, while in tears, she told me that although she was passionate about our brand and loved the job, she could not overcome the fact that I did not thank her for her work. It really made me stop in my tracks and so I asked for an example. “Remember when I bought the pictures with butterflies to hang in the front? And you just came and said ‘thank you’? That is a perfect example!” – “Wait”, I said, “So, I did thank you then?” – “Yes! But you did not elaborate on what exactly you liked about them! Why didn’t you?” She had bought them with the company credit card and I actually did not like them at all, but I digress.

I have developed a different approach for offering constructive criticism to male and female employees. When I have something to say to one of the men, I just say it! I don’t think it through – I simply spit it out, we have a brief discussion and we move on. They even frequently thank me for the feedback! Not so fast with my female staff. I plan, I prepare, I think, I run it through my business partner and then I think again. I start with a lot of positive feedback before I feel that I have cushioned my one small negative comment sufficiently, yet it is rarely enough. We talk forever, dissect every little piece of it, and then come back to the topic time and time again in the future. And I also have to confirm that I still like them – again and again, and again. [cont.]

— Comments —

Michael S. writes:

So the guest blogger writes an entire piece substantiating the proposition that men and women are psychologically different… and then dismisses as “idiots” and “losers” over five dozen commenters who say… that very thing.

Some people are simply immune to reality.

Terry Morris writes:

What does it mean to say “I’ve crashed the glass ceiling in every aspect of my life?” The old Wonder Woman TV series was mildly entertaining while it lasted, but nobody took it seriously, right? (Truth be told, I only watched it occasionally because I thought Wonder Woman was pretty darned cute!)

Also, to say “Over the years I’ve hired” various types of talented women makes it seem as though the writer’s business is long-established by implication, but we learn from one of her own comments down the page a bit that it is a mere three years old and still in the toddler phase. What’s that all about?

Well, anyway, that she thinks she was “fortunate” to learn from other women “by their own examples” that she can “achieve absolutely anything I desire” says about all that needs be said about how unfortunate she is that nobody along the way ever took the time to explain reality to her during her formative years. But I guess she no longer “desires” to successfully manage a bunch of career oriented women, celebrate their pregnancies, offer them year-long maternity leaves and blah, blah. Imagine that.

Life’s lessons are sometimes this way, by the time we get around to learning them/unlearning everything we were wrongly taught, explicitly and implicitly, about the reality on the ground, our best years are already way behind us. Just be careful crashing back through the glass ceiling on the way back down.

Laura writes:

That’s terrific.

In case you were wondering, this is what someone looks like after crashing a glass ceiling (either on the way up or on the way down). It’s a pretty exhilarating experience. Notice the sparkling shards of glass.

Buck writes:

My son, who is now age twenty-five, said to me a few years ago, that one of his teachers spent some time “teaching” ( I question his teaching ability) the class about “cognitive dissonance.” My son wondered why he would ever have a use for understanding such a strange concept.

William writes:

“I get extremely angry when I come across articles that insist there are gender differences that extend beyond physiology.”

I am surprised that she would make such a statement, for she is most likely a materialist, such that she believes only matter exists. I suppose she believes we humans are no more than the matter of which we are composed. Hence, I don’t know why she would refer to something “beyond physiology,” which I understand as beyond flesh and blood. I wonder what it is that extends beyond physiology that she is referring to. Would she even be willing to utter that man has a soul?

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