This first blog post of the New Year (whee!), I will be blogging on the idea that women have a special capacity for being hellion bosses. It’s been an idea rattling around and my head and I was reminded of it while I was twitter terrorizing tweeps yesterday (Which is a font of knowledge about my nutella eating habits, fyi. Talk about science? Pssssh). Because everyone knows under the glitter, sparkles, and pink things wimminz be like, crazy, dawg.
Figure 1: You think He-Man could bring it like this? Boyfriend would be lying on the ground wondering what train hit him.
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Now I’m not arguing that asshole ladypants bosses do not exist, and that there are not women who pull the ladder up behind them, and all that shit. But I would argue in many cases there is a double standard applied to women in power that is not applied to men… the infamous rationalization that women are supposed to give a shit about your problems.
I know, I know, it hurts more when another woman deals with your childbearing, work/life balance, discrimination issues harshly, because presumably she went through the exact same thing. But guess what, to a narcissistic asshole their issues were unfair struggles they survived, and yours are an unfair inconvenience that has nothing to do with them. Sucks, but that’s how it is. Ladyparts do not confer unto someone instinctual maternal feelings, love for their fellow man, or empathy.
If your only justification for being put out by something a female does identically to a male, is "but she’s a WOMAN, she should UNDERSTAND/BE NICER", you need to reevaluate your thought process. Quite frankly, I see this complaint a LOT when students were too lazy to do their research when selecting a PI and automatically gravitated towards any woman in sight, with the assumption she would obviously have the qualities listed above. Well, fucking surprise because part of equality is allowing a woman to be just as big of a dick as a man and not be judged more harshly for it.
