Would you object to this comment in a headteacher’s staff address? WWYD?

[Meckrel]

End of term address to staff by the HT of a large and successful secondary school.

There were some tech problems at the start and he opened his remarks by saying "two things I hate, microphones and women who say no".

Now, who knows what he was actually thinking. I don't think (hope) he meant sexually, but even in the context of "difficult" women that's not OK for a teacher and employer to say? Is it?

It was an address to staff thanking them for the year etc etc. Most people laughed. Would you?

That is the type of crap women had to put up with in the workplace decades ago which I’d hoped were long gone

Just a thought but has a teacher left that it is known that the HT and her butted heads?

It could be a sly dig at them before they finally leave.

Its a very petty last shot/final word as they leave.

That sounds to me as if he'd asked someone else to host the event, and they'd refused. Totally depends on the context.

Which would also be very unprofessional

I agree, but then I have known some very unprofessional HTs, SLT and (not so many) teachers

The issue is that he said "women". He singled out women to complain. These types of 'jokes' stopped being funny in the 90s.

Just like 'joking' about 'throwing like a girl' or 'screaming like a girl'. Stop using women as insults and stop singling us out for 'jokes'. He could have said 'people' who say no but didn't. Also: it was definitely sexual in nature because that is a well-known expression. Because why else not say 'people'. Either way, he's a sexist prick and it needs addressing.

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Can I ask OP what she is going to do about this? This post lives rent free in my head. What he said was abhorrent and really indicative of the misogyny that is still rampant in our society.