Our innovative world has evolved, but our ideas about gender have not evolved. This sexism has tipped to the point of hate towards women.
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
– Nelson Mandela
Most recently the women that are my friends, my colleagues, restaurant staff, office staff, business management continue to be verbally abused and bullied. There remains no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.
People, I hear you. But, I’m good, and my staff are good. We have adjusted to key problems and have made changes, as we progress. Still, why do women in business face retaliation/pissiness from both men and women when it comes to the enforcement of office/business policies?
Examples:
Staff reporting to work on time,
Implementing payment on accounts receivable,
Business opening/closing schedule,
Can’t get a specific appointment,
Completing deadlines,
Questioning costs and overhead,
Applying proper dress codes,
Completing staff task lists,
Determination of charitable contributions,
Restricting counterproductive demands.
Does it come down to “Smile!” sexism? Public entitlement to control how a woman looks, speaks, and thinks?
As a businesswoman, I seek out and maintain sustainable practices in the multiple businesses I run. Sustainability rests on the principle that we must meet the needs of the present without compromising the abilities or opportunities of future generations. Therefore, if we are given the opportunity to influence other people, we should not influence their hate, jealousy, or anger. If a person continues to instill hostility towards another person or business after they have made positive and productive changes, what is the incentive for people to respond to constructive criticism?
Sadly, our community has reached a level of violent threats that include hate crimes towards our staff, against our friends, our neighbors, and myself pointedly. Patients now openly threaten to beat staff over insurance dilemmas. It has reached a level where oppositional critics, a local musician enraged by a dress code, rallied for aggression while dismissing the request for assistance in preventing further violence. He replied by writing, “that’s your problem”. Instilling violence against women in our community is not productive, and using social media posts to inflame a derogatory & savage retaliation is vulgar.
No truer words can set the stage for our current atmosphere, that we must heal these wounds; we must allow tolerance; we must evolve our ideas on gender and race. Women are entitled to equality and the freedom it encompasses.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
–Abraham Lincoln
Jenneffer Pulapaka
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