Brickbat: German Gender Quotas

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A new German law mandates that the nation's largest companies reserve 30 percent of the seats of their supervisory boards for women. Companies have until 2016 to meet the new quotas.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

You know who else mandated a strict quota?

[ColonelEngineer]

Staten Island police?

[Swiss Servator, Winter kommt!]

University of Michigan?

[db]

Frau Bl?cher?

[Horse]

Neeeeigh!!

[Rufus J. Firefly]

The Hall of Justice?

[Adans smith]

Beowulf ?

[mr lizard]

King Leonytis?

[UnCivilServant]

Let me guess, a company who discriminates at 100% female is a-okay under these rules.

[Steve G]

Candidate: Hi, I saw the ad about a hostess?

HR: Sorry, but that position is no longer available, could we interest you in a COO position?

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30%? Picked that number out of someone's ass. Why not 50.1% to match the Flying Spaghetti Monster's baby production?

[db]

Because Progressives need slightly more than half of women to be baby factories to generate new taxpayers and laborers.

[Redmanfms]

You jest, but Germany does (well, did, haven't checked the laws lately) effectively pay women to have children. Several Eurotrash nations do.

I guess they didn't quite figure out that the incredibly high cost of living has made it such that young people who actually want a passably comfortable lifestyle aren't inclined to take on a gigantic financial burden like a kid.

[Redmanfms]

Huh, post got clipped.

It was basically the reason why many Europeans nations started paying women to have kids back in the '70s/'80s, the birthrate was crashing because of the ridiculous cost of living at a time when pension benefits (paid by taxpayers) reached their zenith of lavishness.

The many programs instituted to encourage women to have kids largely failed, which is why many European nations turned to the Middle East for immigration. That's, shall we say, not turned out too well for them.

[widget]

You're telling me that proggies know full well that women cannot be CEOs and baby factories at the same time. Thus, we have to downgrade them to 30% efficiency.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Ladies and gentlemen, we're losing Germany.

[Steve G]

You know who else lost Germany?

[Malkavian]

Emperor Napoleon III?

[UnCivilServant]

Augustus?

[Adans smith]

Jack Ryan?

[mr lizard]

Gorbachev?

[Swiss Servator, Winter kommt!]

Kaiser Franz Joseph?

[Ted S.]

Luiz Felipe Scolari?

[antisocial-ist]

Gorbachev?

[Bean Counter]

Read before posting.

[JW]

Bluto?

[Riesen]

Argentina in the 2006 World Cup?

[Steve G]

And if they can't come up with qualified/interested candidates? The chair just sits empty...like some kind of reminder/memorial or something?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Ever been to a board meeting with nothing but dolls sitting in the chairs?

Happened to a friend. It got to be he thought he was one of them and began dressing up like them make up and all.

True story.

[Ted S.]

When I was in college, I joined the radio station and for the most part was a news reader. Every Sunday, all the departments would have a meeting to dole out shifts for the week and what not. One term, I was the only guy in the news department. It was then that I realized women are just as shallow and sex-obsessed as men are (often rightly) accused of being.

[Steve G]

Don't know why, but it reminds me of the POW/MIA tables at military functions:
As you entered the banquet hall conference room this evening morning, you may have noticed a small table chair in a place of honor equality. It is set for one slightly elevated since they're typically shorter. This table chair is our way of symbolizing the fact that members of our profession of arms are missing from our midst reminding you of the patriarchy. They are commonly called POWs or MIAs eye candy, but we call them "Brothers" 'the Oppressed'. They are unable to be with us this evening morning and so we remember them guilt trip you bastards.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

A female doctor here is advocating women doctors get paid equal to a male doctor even if they work less (which according to stats is 70% less than males).

It's almost as if 'hours worked' mean nothing anymore. Just pay me even if I work less. At this rate, let's pay people to stay at home.

I swear, we need someone or something to come and nip this mental state of being in the bud fast or else...

[Adans smith]

I am women hear me bitch

[Ted S.]

Single payer will solve this.

[/sarcasm]

[Bean Counter]

Never mind that this woman never passed Economics 101, she doesn't even grasp the "Empty Bag" theory of economics. Stated succinctly, the Empty Bag Theory states that, when the bat is empty, you have to stop eating the candy.

[Bean Counter]

"bat" = "bag".
Dammit.

[Bean Counter]

Oh...That's what the "Preview" button is for!

[db]

Someone else's bag always has some left in it.

[Bean Counter]

yeah, but the smart ones figure out how to hide their candy and leave the empty bag out for the thieves to see.

[Rebel Scum]

"Merit". What is it?

Also, how is a policy, such as this, not the textbook definition of sexism?

[ColonelEngineer]

Cause women can't be sexist. Duh.

Now surrender your patriarchy membership card. You're obviously unfit to carry one.

[Coeus]

So far, all results have been negative or neutral.

But diversity is strength!!!

[Doctor Whom]

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[Coeus]

Columnist for the atlantic proposes US political quotas.

[Doctor Whom]

Let's follow that splended example of human rights, Rwanda.

[Rebel Scum]

I thought of that, as well. If Rwanda is your shining example, I think you're doing it wrong.

[Rebel Scum]

Murray argues, men have an "enlightened self-interest" in supporting quotas for men.

MOAR GOVERNMENT ENFORCED DISCRIMINATION.

qualified women often opt not to run

What are "personal choices"?

previous research has demonstrated that women undergo a more difficult selection process

Clearly this is how we got the enlightened grace of Nancy Pelosi & Sheila Jackson-Lee.

I couldn't finish reading it. It's fucking retarded.

[Bean Counter]

Hell, just skip all the BS and put in a female dictator, castrate all men and outlaw all forms of reproduction except artificial insemination.

[Suthenboy]

In all fairness it would be difficult to downgrade the political system with quotas. Nearly every other system/industry can be downgraded by reducing it from a meritocracy, but the political system....randomly choosing people front the voter rolls would probably improve it. But the political system really has nowhere to go but up.

[jmomls]

*But the political system really has nowhere to go but up.*

LOL

"Just when you think things are never ever going to get any better, they get worse."