One of the inherent disaster zones of using gender quotas and promoting people not because of their ability but because of their gender means that whenever those people eventually fail, as they will always do, because they should not have been in the position in the first place is that you will be called sexist.
Not only when you use quotas or positive discrimination (which means negative disrimination for some one else) but also when you talk up a particular gender you say they suffer from discrimination - when they fail - you have left yourself wide open to the accusation of sexism. What can you do, when you have said yourself they should be there and then they turn out to be rubbish.
In a rational world, it would be mean you would admit that quotas and sexist positive action was wrong and only talent should count, but as we know the political class who promote positive action and positive discrimination never admit to making a mistake. So what do the metropolitan politically correct elite do? they bring even more rules to make sure it happens again and again.
Why raise this - well there was a story in the Guardian that caught my eye (I have to read it for reaserch for this site!) especially as politics has been a key area where discrimination against men is rife including the UK.
In France, Rachida Dati was the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post given to her by Nicolas Sarkozy. As seems clear by the story, she hasn't got where she wants in politics because of talent but obviously because of her background she has led to believe she has done and has doors opened for her which if she was a male would never have been opened.
This is what you get when you promote people not because of their talent but their gender - you get it the accusation of sexism and tokenism thrown back at you. Those who do it deserve it but us men suffer because the reaction is to give even more special treatment and special favours to women.
That's the sole basis of what Harman, Featherstone, Flint and the Fawcett crew do. Like an ever tightening ratchet of lies and sexism.
Posted by Skimmington
Good stuff as usual, though all perhaps a little obvious to the enlightened audience this blog typically attracts.
"whenever those people eventually fail, as they will always do, because they should not have been in the position in the first place"
Without wanting to nitpick that should read "almost always". A very small percentage of those not in a job on merit or ability will manage to grow into the role and/or discover hidden talents, therefore doing as good a job as the person who should have had the role in the first place. Most will fail but not all and gender feminists will highlight this tiny minority as "proof" that the policy works.
Posted by: John Kimble | Monday, 19 December 2011 at 00:27