SJ magazine has canceled the panel titled "Women in Business: A Mans Point of View" after heavy criticism. Women and men everywhere took to twitter to express their outrage, even Huffpost reporter Yashar Ali tweeted a photo of the panel members with the caption "this is real...", the tweet quickly went viral. In a response to the twitter protests, SJ magnazine tweeted "Men have a responsibility to step up & support women & we want to start the discussion". They also promptly defended their decision in saying that there were 3 other panels that included female speakers, but they amounted its cancelation very soon after.
At this point in time, situations such as this don't surprise me in the slightest. In United States history many major decisions involving women's right were discussed and or decided upon by men, with the support or protest of women. Such as the right to an abortion, or even the right to vote. Even now meeting concerning women's rights at the White House have only male attendees. The article was written by Dominique Mosbergen, a senior reporter at Huffpost, her subtitle was "this is tone deaf at best" and I love that.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59eed33ce4b03535fa938ccf?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Why the heck does that make sense? Honestly sometimes I feel some people are ignorant of the times. Every man and women in this country have rights. Every race has the same rights (I hope). Women can discuss their own rights, without men to support them. Honestly.
ReplyDeleteWhy don’t they understand that only people going through the same exact problems understand the point others are trying to make. When will they understand that.
ReplyDeleteWhat is this? this is actually unbelievable. there shouldn't be men talking on women in business there should be women talking about women talking about women in business i thought this was common sense
ReplyDeleteI guess it makes sense in a sick sort of way but they should have approached it better. These men should be included for the sake of discussion because that is how we will get them to understand, but they should not be held to where they can have power in the situation.
ReplyDeleteWe need allies when it comes to women's rights but WOMEN should be speaking about it and not men. I don't know who thought this was a good decision but this is just contributing to making the issue sexism worse.
ReplyDeleteThis is actually kind of disgusting to read. I'm astonished that people would think a decision on women's rights could be made without any women around. This is a sad turn around to the progress we have made.
ReplyDeleteThis is like saying, "Racism doesn't exist in this country! That's insane! So, in order to prove this we had a group of old, white men to prove this..." I was really mad at first but now I'm just laughing at how ironic this is.
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