Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!

"Women are ruining the workplace. Before women, of course, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn't have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there. You could just sit around all day and call, "Quiet. Quiet, piggy!"and nobody batted an eye, except for the pigs. It was your job to name them."

"Women are ruining the workplace, standing 305 feet tall in New York Harbor insisting that people immigrate to your country. They are blindfolded, they are holding scales outside of courthouses, they won't smile when you ask them to smile, and they're made out of stone-never mind. Statues. Women are ruining the workplace, crashing into icebergs and foundering on rocks-no, that is ships. I was confused by the pronouns. Women are ruining the workplace, biting you on the arm, sipping your blood. No, those are mosquitoes."

Repeated proclamations claim that women are 'ruining the workplace' by absurdly attributing a wide range of myths, objects, animals, and disasters to women. The rhetoric conflates biblical and classical figures (Eve, Pandora), literary witches, civic monuments, ships, and mosquitoes with female identity. Interruptions and corrections puncture the seriousness of each accusation by revealing the true referents. Hyperbole, irony, and comedic misdirection underline the illogic of blaming women for societal ills. The tone oscillates between mock outrage and self-aware admission of error, exposing how cultural stereotypes recycle ancient myths to scapegoat women.

Read at The Atlantic