[Note added 6.8.15: A Voice for Men article on this topic, just published, is here.]
Just when you thought women might be running out of things to whine about…
My thanks to a number of people for pointing us to a story about sexist air conditioning. A Sky News interview with a prime candidate for a ‘Whiny Woman of the Month’ award is here.
Last year one of our associated websites published some practical yet highly effective advice about how you might best deal with the whiny women in your life, whether at home or work – here.
Suggesting that women working in air-conditioned offices might wear something over their summer attire – oh, I don’t know, a thin jumper rather than hedge trimmings? – would, of course, be an insult to countless oppressed women over the millennia.
If office temperatures were raised to make women comfortable, it would result in men becoming uncomfortable. We’re sure women wouldn’t object if their male colleagues all removed their shirts in a bid to become more comfortable.
I have worked in an office where precisely that situation obtained. Much bitching all round, and very fed up men.
Thanks Anne. Sadly that would lead to, er, more whining.
So now we have a problem of women being discriminated against because they are too cold, and have no access to controls of the Air Con. What worries me the cold temp could be spot on for the menopausal women and too cold for the women who are not of that age. Should we now think about segregating the women, not only from the men but from each other.
Whine incessantly about anything and everything, without ever worrying that they are making themselves look like thoroughly spoiled children. The only thing women can do that men can’t (apart from squirt out meal tickets)?