Sara G;332286 wrote:
I once worked somewhere with a workforce that was about more than 60% female - the percentage was even higher at board level. Someone started a Women's Support Group to help female employees network and advance their careers. I found this amusing and said that I would join, as soon as someone started a Men's Support Group. I got a laugh from a male colleague, but was later disciplined following a complaint from a female co-worker citing my unsupportive attitude towards other women.
You have to laugh :)
That was a nice and fair thing to do. A dissident and intelligent move, which is why you were punished. By midwit NPCs.
Thinking about it, this is one of the main arguments in favour of meritocracy. Having midwits unnaturally in charge, they are incentivised to burn those smarter than them who pose a threat to their status. And they do depend on fake nonsense to further their ambitions. You can see this with somebody like TTK. The NPC's NPC.
I could give a lot of examples of similar situations I've been in over the years. Of particular note was one of those diversity sessions of the vintage that was going on around 15 or 20 years ago. I dared to challenge the "lecturer" who was giving our re-education sermon and noticed others feeling emboldened to disagree by my example. I remember the moment the person appeared to mark something on a piece of paper, perhaps against my name, but nothing ever came of it. They were, just about, more innocent times and the more extreme, Blob propaganda we are now familiar with hadn't crystallised into its current form.
Hopefully others continue to have the courage to mock such silliness. For my part, I'm still managing to dodge all that BS :)