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Perhaps the PDO could suggest women wear little red badges when the painters are in. This way other employees would know to give them space and occasionally slide over a pack of Lindt with a sympathetic expression.

Possibly menstrual huts somewhere on the premises would also be required, with WiFi. This way they can be sequested in dignity, but still be productive.

And if female employees, sorry, bleeders, could report their cycles on a tracking app to HR, this would boost HR's capability to offer just-in-time resilience training for when a hot water bottle just won't cut it.

Or they could treat their female employees like adults and assume they know how to manage their own bodies, after all, they've been doing it their entire lives.

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I'm only just seeing this comment now -- hilarious! Be careful, we must ensure that Red Badges aren't just for one gender, you know!!!

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Just when you're certain we have a full supply of useless bureaucrats, they come up with another level, so absurd that even just ten years or so ago it could only have been in jest. Then they compound the asininity by giving the post to a guy. I wonder what we joke about today that will be Progressive reality in a decade. Their capacity for the inane seems limitless.

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I’m reminded of Jessica Yaniv of “wax my balls or I’ll sue” fame. It emerged in the course of the controversy that his dearest wish was to hang out in women’s loos so that he could instruct confused young women on the proper insertion of tampons. There is a certain species of man who thinks that the women’s loos are a veritable red tent where we all hang out chatting amiably and bonding over our hoo-haws and menstrual cycles and about how our gynecologists are just our very best friends! And then there are the de-civilizing sisters of zombie feminism who are using Norbert Elias’s list of behaviors made taboo by the civilization process: pooping in public; the smell of bodily effluents; sex with children; sex in front of children, etc. as a to-do list.

Together they will tear down civilization brick by brick until all that’s left are a bunch of fragile creatures who used to be human, casting around for an identity in keeping with their authentic selves. Except that having removed all the things that made for a robust sense of individuality, all that is left are tiny houses, infinite chains of life coaches coaching life coaches and porn.

Thank you for listening.

Warmly, Cassandra

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Do you think that a firehose of sass, attitude and ridicule will put the pervs back in their box? Because sass, attitude and ridicule are pretty much all I got.

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Interesting Cassandra, I am not sure anyone has imagined a post-apocalyptic world with infinite life coaches, but I do agree when all is said and done, there will always be porn.

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Well done. It’s a scourge of our times that deserves wider attention.

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Our dignity as human beings comes from God, not from the latest fad in woke government or woke anything else. We read in Genesis (the very first book of the Bible) that "...God created humanity in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."

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So do you believe that the Scottish have always been treated with dignity by other nations in the United Kingdom? Assuming as they (all countries in the United Kingdom) are Christian then they should always be treated with dignity as you mention which is outlined in Genesis.

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Not everybody who claims to be Christian based on some ancestral cultural connection with Christianity is, in fact, a Christian. Historians can explore what anybody (whether fake Christian or true Christian) did or did not do but that does not change the basic biblical principle.

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Insanity. Fuming. Agree 100% with your post. I can't wrap my mind around the fact this isn't a joke.

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Sass, attitude and ridicule are essential. As for the bigger picture, I think it almost certainly will ultimately come to compulsion, not because compulsion is great but because the idiots in charge have absolutely no compunction about repressing, crushing and burying anyone who disagrees with them.

But first the adults need to act together. That’s a political task, not as in party politics in the way it exists now, but in spelling out our interests and what is in the interest of our society (not sterilizing our children, just for instance) and then deciding what to do and acting together.

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That guy playing with the tampons is Christopher Guest, right?

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No. Unfortunately.

Oh, he did just win some prize for being an excellent woman of influence, though!

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