> No, here in "socialist Europe" he'd have been fired as well. That's an extremely strong claim that does not match my experience and will highly depend on the

> No, here in "socialist Europe" he'd have been fired as well. That's an extremely strong claim that does not match my experience and will highly depend on the company, which country in Europe, etc. For instance I've seen explicitly sexist things happening in French companies, and have had many more related to me by friends and family. My mother works for a large European oil company, and has witnessed execs telling women in meetings to shut up and go back to being secretaries. None of these examples resulted in firing. And honestly, while Europe is indeed socialist in many ways policy wise, in many places it is far from as progressive as the coastal US. I'd much rather be LGBTQ in San Francisco or New York than Paris or Barcelona. Hell, I have several European female coworkers who have explicitly told me that they do not intend on ever working there ever again because the culture is significantly more sexist than SF/LA/Seattle/NYC. But again, Europe is big. Paris or Madrid are much more hostile than Berlin or Stockholm in these ways.