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Firefighters' misogyny and racist attitudes

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ShellsOnTheBeach · 14/12/2022 11:52

What the actual f@ck?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/14/london-fire-brigade-put-into-special-measures-over-misogyny-and-racism

In November, an independent report on the culture at the UK’s largest firefighting and rescue organisation revealed deep resistance to women being firefighters, with female officers groped, beaten and having their helmets filled with urine.

One female firefighter said she advised female friends not to allow male firefighters in their houses for fire safety checks, as they raided drawers in search of underwear and sex toys that they would use as evidence they were “sluts”.

People of colour reported racist slurs being casually used. Incidents cited in the report included a black firefighter who had a noose put over his locker and a Muslim colleague who had bacon and sausages stuffed in his pockets and a terrorist hotline sign posted on his locker.

How much of this kind of shit goes on elsewhere the workplace?

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