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"It's hard to take women seriously when they dress sexy at work"

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  • #2
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,235 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I take Jean Byrne completely seriously. Oh Hell yeah. :cool:


  • #3
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    A scientist who landed a rocket on a comet was criticised for his dress sense by feminists so to complain about this would be a huge double standard.


  • #4
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    What's she talking about. I am undressing Ms.Merkel with my eyes everytime her little Bratwurst head pops on tv.


  • #5
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,089 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    What a Loada sh!te


  • #6
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,071 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    Where is the outrage that was evident when that scientist man said the same thing last week?


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  • #7
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    It's good to stay on top of foreign affairs...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1WXq54SNNU


  • #8
    Buzz Meeks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 127 ✭✭Buzz Meeks


    There's a controversial front moving in from the atlantic.

    Orange Alert.


  • #9
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Where is the outrage that was evident when that scientist man said the same thing last week?
    Being a bit generous there to compare the Indo and Evelyn Cusack with a Nobel Prize winning scientist.


  • #10
    tastyt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭tastyt


    It's true though....


  • #11
    shalalala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭shalalala


    You cannot be a feminist then dictate what clothes a woman wears to wear to be taken seriously makes zero sense. And while I do agree that there is a line, people should be judged on their accomplishments, not how they look.

    Now obviously, that is an idealistic view, everybody judges eachother. But would she not take a man in an ill fitting suit seriously in work in the same way as a woman in something she seems sexy?


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jaysus.

    I can see an apology on the horizon.


  • #13
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    When I wore my mankini on casual friday my boss took it very seriously


  • #14
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,386 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    If I went in dressed in tight shorts and figure hugging low cut T shirt would you take me seriously?


  • #15
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,009 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    The outspoken presenter said that she believes...

    She does the weather forecast. How can she be 'outspoken'?


  • #16
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I wouldn't say it's true at all. Sexy is more about how the individual conducts themselves than about what they wear.

    The exact same outfit that looks sexy on one person may be vomit-inducing on another. Go down to the IFSC some day; women everywhere walking around in suit skirts (or pants), and many of them sexy as hell.

    Wearing distracting clothing can undermine anyone at work, male or female.


  • #17
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Ah she's going on about leather squeaking - 'tis a jibe at Jean all right. :)


  • #18
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    It's usually other women that judge women on what they wear.


  • #19
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,386 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    The ball busters don't dress sexily,and they're taken very seriously.


  • #20
    Neyite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,946 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    Miaow!


  • #21
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Jaysus, why has there been such a surge in moronic, bigoted comments like these lately? :confused:

    On the other hand, if Jean Byrne wants to present the weather forecast in a bikini just as a f*ck you to Cusack, I for one would wholeheartedly support such an endeavour. Purely for political reasons, of course. ;)


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZTkVEObQwY


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  • #22
    Vandango
    Closed Accounts Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Vandango


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Evelyn Cusack says you can't take women seriously who dress sexy for work.

    Yes Evelyn, but if you were blessed with beauty would you still be saying that? I'm guessing not.


  • #23
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Either gender dressing overly and inappropriately provocative for their job undermines their professionalism and competence.


  • #24
    Buzz Meeks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 127 ✭✭Buzz Meeks


    I actually think that Evelyn Cusack and Jean Byrne are the same person.

    Or close enough that it doesn't matter anyway.


  • #25
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Have you seen yer wan on Mexican TV that does the weather. AAWWOOOOOOOOOGGAAAA

    There is also a bit of an uprising from female presenters in South America for the football tournament where they are taking off layers as they report. But I suppose that should go in the UNdressing at work thread.

    But, in my opinion, people should wear what they are comfortable in, as long as they are getting the job done, you should be able to wear what you want.
    There also considerations for your colleagues on how comfortable they should be with what you are wearing, and dependant on role, there may be a more corporate image required.


  • #26
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Ah here, are we to be outraged by the uttering of a weather presenter now? I cant keep up.


  • #27
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Siobhan Ryan could come to work dressed in a black plastic bag and she'd still be gorgeous :)


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I would wear pretty figure hugging dresses to work, often accompanied by high heels. I get taken pretty seriously when I need to be.

    There's a woman though, a beautiful woman I might add, with the most divine figure. She wears perfectly normal work clothes, it's just that she looks fcuking hot in them - she is regularly the subject of "that's not work appropriate" comments from a small handful of other women and one man here behind her back. I just don't get it. She doesn't have her boobs out, she doesn't have her arse hanging out - she just has an amazing figure. I honestly think it has to be jealousy because there's no other logical explanation.


  • #29
    Alzo90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭Alzo90


    Boom_Bap wrote: »

    But, in my opinion, people should wear what they are comfortable in, as long as they are getting the job done, you should be able to wear what you want.
    There also considerations for your colleagues on how comfortable they should be with what you are wearing, and dependant on role, there may be a more corporate image required.

    Bang on. In fact I would have alot of respect for someone that dresses in that provocative way because we all know the problems that would happen in the workplace ie. harrassment, social ostracisation


  • #30
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I would wear pretty figure hugging dresses to work, often accompanied by high heels. I get taken pretty seriously when I need to be.

    There's a woman though, a beautiful woman I might add, with the most divine figure. She wears perfectly normal work clothes, it's just that she looks fcuking hot in them - she is regularly the subject of "that's not work appropriate" comments from a small handful of other women and one man here behind her back. I just don't get it. She doesn't have her boobs out, she doesn't have her arse hanging out - she just has an amazing figure. I honestly think it has to be jealousy because there's no other logical explanation.

    I've witnessed this type of thing over the years. The cruellest towards women are usually other women, in my experience.


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  • #31
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,408 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I would wear pretty figure hugging dresses to work, often accompanied by high heels. I get taken pretty seriously when I need to be.

    There's a woman though, a beautiful woman I might add, with the most divine figure. She wears perfectly normal work clothes, it's just that she looks fcuking hot in them - she is regularly the subject of "that's not work appropriate" comments from a small handful of other women and one man here behind her back. I just don't get it. She doesn't have her boobs out, she doesn't have her arse hanging out - she just has an amazing figure. I honestly think it has to be jealousy because there's no other logical explanation.

    There was one supervisor where I worked like that. Great figure and people said she dressed inappropriately.

    Then one day she wore sheer leggings instead of trousers. Not even a long top to cover bits. And she wore a lacy thong underneath.

    I think that's the point she crossed the line.


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