© Caitlyn Collins/Twitter
"Thank you for being so brave and harassing the working class"
She thought she was making a stand for feminism, but ended up becoming a total laughingstock.
From the luxury of her air-conditioned vehicle, Washington University in St. Louis assistant professor of sociology Caitlyn Collins was triggered as she passed a road sign that said "men working," tweeting a photo of it next to her own salty face.
Collins demanded to know from the workers whether there were any women on the crew.
"What? Oh. I don't know. I'm just here," responded one of them.
Collins then suggested that the sign itself was the cause of there being no women in the work crew (naturally, it had nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that women wouldn't normally choose the profession of operating a pneumatic drill and laying concrete).
"This thread will be great teaching material," added Collins.
This thread will be great teaching material.
- Caitlyn Collins (@caitymcollins) April 4, 2019
Comment: As the good Mr. Watson says, the internet is forever. Here is the text version of Collin's original tweet:
Me: What if there's a woman on your crew?
Man working: What? Oh. I don't know. I'm just here.
Me: Are there any women on your crew?
Man working: Nnnno.
Me: Do you think maybe they're related?
Man working: [awkwardest face] pic.twitter.com/hLsh38gtOx
- Caitlyn Collins (@caitymcollins) April 3, 2019
Yeah, if that "teaching material" is solely centered around you being owned, Caitlyn.
The tweet got ratioed and the responses were brutal, with one Twitter user accusing Collins of "harassing the working class".
Then came the delicious memes.
Imagine being this offended over a road sign.
How do these people even make it through the day without having a nervous breakdown?
All that self-righteous moral superiority usually ends when they're supposed to start walking the walk.
On a slightly different (but still feminist) note my absolute favourite example of feminists' idiotic arguments backfiring on them is the non-existent gender pay gap. A huge chunk of working mothers receive salary sacrifice benefits, i.e. they get less money but receive benefits that would have cost them more if they had to pay for them themselves from their salary after tax. Those benefits usually include pension contributions, childcare vouchers, annual leave, etc. This arrangement usually worked very well for both employees. But now that gender pay gap has to be reported, companies started to remove salary sacrifice benefits from their salary package offering. Yet somehow taking that away from employees to cover the gender pay gap is sooooo very unfair. But...but...now they get the same salary on paper! Is that now what they wanted???
Serves them right for focusing on one tiny metric rather than assessing the big picture in detail. [Link]