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Original poster

I just came out as GC at work, to the big boss and I feel a bit sick

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JustcameoutGC · 15/04/2021 12:34

I have NCed for this. I have just outed myself as GC in work to the big boss (and some others cced in).

I was asked to sign off on something that I just couldn't and I said so, and explained why.

I literally feel sick. Like I have put a big fat GC target on my back. My org is totally woke. I wonder how many times my response has been forwarded already.

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Stickyjamhands · 15/04/2021 18:44

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SchadenfreudePersonified · 15/04/2021 18:43

Gotta love a German compound noun!

They have about 36 pronouns, too! get that lot in your 'preferred pronouns" space in your bios!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 15/04/2021 18:38

@AvocadoBathroom

It's going to be interesting when the sunlight hits and more women understand what is going on - the backlash is inevitable. Lawsuits unavoidable. And those who let it happen, held accountable. It's just a matter of time now.
I agree - but a lot of very vulnerable women and children are going to suffer dreadfully before it does.

It's hideous and heartbreaking. Lives will be wrecked (even more lives) and many, if not most, will never recover.

G5000 · 15/04/2021 18:32

So OP points out that the company has to take into account that some people in the target group of the services will have problems understanding the message. And she now needs to be disciplined and re-educated?

PotholeHellhole · 15/04/2021 18:31

@JustcameoutGC

I suspect I should not look up Gebarmutterhals on my work laptop
It's just cervix. But it's actually a word that totally threw me for a loop when I was ploughing through some progressive German newspaper a few months back. I had to fetch a dictionary to work out that it meant... women.
Original poster
JustcameoutGC · 15/04/2021 18:31

Languages were never my strong point..

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Igneococcus · 15/04/2021 18:30

Gebärmutterhals is more obviously female than cervix containing the words "birth" and "mother".

EmpressWitchDoesntBurn · 15/04/2021 18:28

Brilliant work OP, congratulations!

Datun · 15/04/2021 18:27

I'd also like to know how these distractors imagine women are discriminated against? Is it usually on the basis that they menstruate ? What if they don't?

Is it usually on the basis that they are breastfeeding? what if they don't?

Or have a cervix? Or a birthing body?

Women are discriminated against, because they are women. They are 'lesser than'.

The relentless categorisation of women based on separate bodily functions obscures the fact it's because they are thought lesser of as a sex.

It might be based on fertility, sexual access, and the need to control procreation, but nonetheless, they are identified by the fact that they are women.

Original poster
JustcameoutGC · 15/04/2021 18:27

I suspect I should not look up Gebarmutterhals on my work laptop

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Wishitsnows · 15/04/2021 18:27

Well done op

EmbarrassingAdmissions · 15/04/2021 18:25

I’d be reporting such behaviour for further education and disciplinary action. I reported similar behaviour relatively recently and it was handled very well. I don’t think you have anything to be proud of here and I hope any decent work place will remind you of company policy and/or professional behaviour

Am I the only person who is curious to know:

  1. what further education? What was the content, who delivered it, and who assessed whether the 'correct' information was absorbed?
  2. what disciplinary action happened? Formal warning? Job loss? Suspension and enquiry?
  3. what does "handled well" mean wrt to the ourcomes and 1 and 2 above?
  4. what is the company policy and professional behaviour expectation in play here?
picklemewalnuts · 15/04/2021 18:25

@WallaceinAnderland

Which of the following is most likely to get the right people to the right service:

  1. Für Menschen mit Einem Gebärmutterhals

  2. Für Frauen

?

Well done OP, it's massively important to speak out. Thank you.

Gotta love a German compound noun!
JustSpeculation · 15/04/2021 18:22

@WallaceinAnderland

Which of the following is most likely to get the right people to the right service:

  1. Für Menschen mit Einem Gebärmutterhals

  2. Für Frauen

?

Well done OP, it's massively important to speak out. Thank you.

Excellent example.
PotholeHellhole · 15/04/2021 18:20

@percheron67 Gender-critical.

These two threads will help www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3145470-Break-it-down-for-me

and www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3348290-It-will-never-happen-resource-thread

BernardBlackMissesLangCleg · 15/04/2021 18:18

cor, another red guard member declaring themselves

but they never explain precisely what they'd be 'reporting' people for, as if wrong think is self evidently a reportable offence

Xenia · 15/04/2021 18:18

It means General Counsel to me.... anyway I looked it up.

So telling people they are being silly to imply it is not just women who menstruate and that kind of thing? Yes well done. I don't think it has to be a big thing and people go into a pro or con box on these things. Just say have you thought about using these materials as they suggest it is not teenage girls who menstruate? What about using these materials instead which make that clear but also deal with the fact a tiny number of people are trans?

WallaceinAnderland · 15/04/2021 18:18

Which of the following is most likely to get the right people to the right service:

  1. Für Menschen mit Einem Gebärmutterhals

  2. Für Frauen

?

Well done OP, it's massively important to speak out. Thank you.

Ikeameatballs · 15/04/2021 18:14

Well done OP.

purpleboy · 15/04/2021 18:13

@Franklyfrost honestly it's not something to be proud of.

percheron67 · 15/04/2021 18:12

Gemma Collins?!

Blibbyblobby · 15/04/2021 18:10

@Kenshi Grin

Franklyfrost · 15/04/2021 18:10

@SweetPetrichor
“You don’t ‘come out’ as GC. If I worked with you, I’d be reporting such behaviour for further education and disciplinary action. I reported similar behaviour relatively recently and it was handled very well. I don’t think you have anything to be proud of here and I hope any decent work place will remind you of company policy and/or professional behaviour.”

This.

EndTable · 15/04/2021 18:09

Cheering you on, OP. Brava!

Kenshi · 15/04/2021 18:06

@Blibbyblobby

Worth mentioning in all the cervix having chat, is that the cervical spine also exists, is found in both sexes and is a completely different part of the body to the cervix, despite the latter being named after the former.
Snap! (My above post)
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