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> "Plus women have to take breaks in their 20's and 30's for maternity reasons." Women aren't required to have kids?
by pyrocat 13y ago
> "Plus women have to take breaks in their 20's and 30's for maternity reasons."
Women aren't required to have kids?
- DanBC 13y agoA better reply would have been "we'd like mean to take paternity leave too". I sometimes wonder if HN commentors ever think that maybe their comments might leave them open to legal liability in some future case.
- BWStearns 13y ago>> I sometimes wonder if HN commentors ever think that maybe their comments might leave them open to legal liability in some future case While I agree with advising caution, and disagree with the gp sentiment, I don't think that mild gender insensitivity and poor communication skills are as of yet civil or criminal offenses on comment sections.
- DanBC 13y agoBob says "hiring women is risky because they all have babies". Bob sets up a startup and gets to the point of hiring. Does Bob wonder whether his earlier public comments have left him open to discrimination claims?
- BWStearns 13y agoFair, but unless he is actually discriminating he should be able to get by with relatively few issues.
- pyrocat 13y agoI think you misunderstood my tone, which in hindsight I should have phrased differently. I was saying "Women aren't required to have kids... but this quote implies that all women have kids, which annoys me"
- ZenPro 13y ago"Women aren't required to have kids..." ^^ Double edged sentence you have there ;-) I am pretty sure they are; unless there are some serious medical advances and questionable ethical boundaries.
- ZenPro 13y agoDownvoted? For saying women are necessary in the birth of children? HN is weird.