UK: Recruiting black and women-only firefighters 'wrong' - minister

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-03-10 22:36

Article here. Excerpt:

'Fire Minister Sadiq Khan has ruled out a ban on white men at brigade recruitment days despite new local diversity targets being drawn up.

On a visit to Bristol he insisted that while it was vital to boost the number of female and ethnic minorities firefighters he fears the tactic employed last year by the Avon service could fuel resentment.

Officials barred white men from four of the five recruitment days held locally sparking outrage.

But Mr Khan told the Bristol Post: "The best people for the jobs should get the jobs. I don't want a situation where people are resentful.'

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So we men are still allowed to put ourselves in mortal danger to rescue womyns, are we?

Whatever next, letting us teach primary/elementary age schoolkids? Well, we should be flattered that we are still good enough to be expendable. Why do you never see women working down mines, down sewers, or up chimney stacks? Why are women allowed to monopolise all the safe/cushy/sit-on-your-government-subsidised-ass-all-day-and-moan-about-being-overworked jobs?

Because we're men, and that's what we do, and one of these days women might start to feel gratefull.

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Submitted by sirprince on Wed, 2009-03-11 16:24