Man Gets Roasted For Posting An Illustration Showing Appreciation For The Obstacles Women Face In The Workforce
Of course, people have something to say about this issue because it's so common for women.
Some people mean well, then manage to step right into a backlash anyway. That is exactly what happened when Indian businessman Anand Mahindra shared a cartoon about the obstacles women face in the workforce.
The image, titled Meritocracy by Peruvian cartoonist Carlin, struck a nerve after Mahindra linked it to his own experience of babysitting his grandson. What he saw as a thoughtful reflection quickly turned into a debate about whether he was comparing a short stint at home to the daily realities women have dealt with for generations.
The replies came fast, and plenty of them were not kind. Read on.
Indian businessman Anand Mahindra tweeted a cartoon image by Carlin, Peru's most popular political cartoonist. The image depicts the many obstacles women face in the workforce and in life.
La RepúblicaAnand then made the mistake of comparing his own experience of babysitting his grandchild for a short time to the obstacles women have faced for centuries.
TwitterThis also echoes the AITA where someone demanded equal pay for cooking family dinners.
Of course, people had some things to say.
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Someone even threw in the #FeminismIsCancer hashtag for good measure!
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But of course, not everyone was against him.
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And finally, one person pointed out that stay-at-home mothers are already working women.
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Then see the mother-in-law spa money fight in this AITA about declining to fund her lavish business.
