Children’s TV character Fireman Sam axed as a mascot for lacking inclusivity

I never heard them referred to as firemen they are usually called firies in Australia. So they get rid of Sam because he is male and replace him with 3 phallic mascots ! ?? Don't know why they cant just call it what it is firie Sam. PC madness.

 

Provide proof please..

 

Its a news story from the UK that’s why!

 

Maybe because most HR jobs are not as highly paid as being a fire fighter?

 

lawyers get paid more than supermarket checkout jobs
the relevance???

 

It is relevant because you brought it up by saying that no one complains that there are more women in HR jobs than men (implying that no one should complain that there are more men in fire fighting roles).

 

She is urging Brits to show their support with the hashtag #firefightingsexism over concerns the term ‘fireman’ could put women off joining the service.

So the Female London Fire Chief said it "Could" put women off...
It's an opinion piece... next.

 

Studies in Scandinavian countries, where they have tried to blur the lines between female and male roles in society more than anywhere else, have conclusively shown that the more that agenda gets pushed the more men and women gravitate to traditional male and female jobs. It's the exact opposite of what they expected to happen.

Fascinating.

 

Sweden is considered one of the most the most gender equal countries but there is still institutional sexism in some places as shown in the double blind study in this article:

Is the Gender Gap Solved in Liberal Sweden?

‘In a randomized double-blind study, two sets of identical application materials, with the only difference that half had a male name and the other half a female name, were sent out to over 100 faculty at research universities and presented as a student applying for a lab manager position. Results found that the female applicants were rated significantly lower than the males in competence, hire-ability, and whether the faculty would be willing to mentor the student.

As other examples, an analysis of over 800 recommendation letters demonstrated that more standout adjectives and ability words were used to describe male as compared to female candidates and, upon large-scale analysis based on over eight million scientific papers, it was found that men predominate in the prestigious first and last author positions.’ (Source - link above)

 

Proof that boys are seen as toxic ?
or proof that women are encouraged to be masculine

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Proof of the assertion in the post.

 

Watch out postman Pat!

 

One of each sex?

 

Do you aspire to inherit your wealth and then rip off your kids?

 

Gillette ad, removal of masculine role models, "boys will be boys" negative, just turn on the TV.

All the pushes to get 50/50 split CEO's in companies/high paying jobs, become breadwinner, give up having children, admonished for wanting to raise a family instead of work etc

 

You never hear men in midwifery complain that they don't wanna be called midwives. They just get on with the job. I think people just need to get over all this nonsense and get on with life. Too much whining and moaning these days about every bloody thing.

 

Sackie, you’ve misunderstood the meaning of the word midwife.

‘The word derives from Old English mid, "with" and wif, "woman", and thus originally meant "with-woman", that is, the person who is with the mother(woman) at childbirth, by traditionally being women those who are pregnant.[6][7][8] The word is used to refer to midwives regardless of gender.’ (Source: Wikipedia - also mentioned in other sources)

 

I asked the doctor to give my wife a prostrate check the other day. she refused!