{"id":63249,"date":"2012-05-24T19:59:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T19:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/?p=63249"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"constantly-confused-accountant-clearly-confused-about-what-constitutes-sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/constantly-confused-accountant-clearly-confused-about-what-constitutes-sexism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Constantly Confused&#8217; Accountant Is Clearly Confused About What Constitutes &#8216;Sexism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, from time to time we like to see what&#39;s poppin&#39; with our friends in the Old Empire. Today, we discover an inquisitor over at AWEB UK, &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accountingweb.co.uk\/anyanswers\/question\/sexism-work-place?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+co%2FFxiZ+%28AccountingWeb+UK+-+All%29\" target=\"_blank\">Constantly Confused<\/a>&quot; is still living in the 1960s. For starters, it doesn&#39;t appear that his office has air conditioning. As a result, he&#39;s a little bent out of shape that the ladies have it so much better than he does:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>I&#39;m sitting here in my shirt and tie, sweating like a proverbial. &nbsp;Maybe, just maybe, I&#39;ll be allowed to take my tie off later provided I then hide from clients like the Phantom of the Opera, but chances are I will have to sweat it out.&nbsp;All the women are swanning in in [sic] their light dresses, bare legged, minimal fabric (sadly only the older women), nice and cool. And I thought sexism was dead in these enlightened times. &nbsp;I&#39;d burn something in protest, but I can&#39;t think what.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Actually, it seems sexism is alive and well, Mr. Confused. But since you&#39;re of the opinion that wearing a dress is such a bonus, we turned to our token Going Concern female, Adrienne Gonzalez for her take on the matter:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>What a load of crap. Wearing a dress isn&#39;t all it&#39;s cracked up to be. You gotta keep your legs crossed, your thighs get all sweaty, not to mention that we wear bras which is like a medieval torture device. This is far worse than a shirt and tie could ever be.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Back to you, Rush Limbaugh.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accountingweb.co.uk\/anyanswers\/question\/sexism-work-place?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+co%2FFxiZ+%28AccountingWeb+UK+-+All%29\" target=\"_blank\">Sexism in the work place<\/a> [AWEB]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, from time to time we like to see what&#39;s poppin&#39; with our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1273],"tags":[3648,9102,9101,9104,9103],"class_list":["post-63249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-brits","tag-dresses","tag-sexism","tag-sweating-proverbial","tag-ties"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Constantly Confused&#039; 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