complaining about Doctor Who having a lesbian kiss in it
*headdesk* For god's sake, it's 20 years - effectively a generation - since the Beth Jordache (Anna Friel) lesbian kiss on Brookside. And doubtless there were complaints back when Star Trek had the first interracial kiss on US TV (Kirk/Uhura IIRC), but this is how we make progress, by making these things normal and a regular part of prime-time. If people are still complaining 20 years on, clearly we need more lesbian kissing, not less!
sheer blatant disregard for disability legislation
At Evil Aerospace the blatant disregard extended to even reading the legislation. I had to explain to the then newly appointed head of Occupational Health what the Disability Discrimination Act actually said. I mean, you would have thought being up to date on the relevant laws and regulations was the kind of thing they would have checked before offering her the job!
What particularly peed me off was that they regularly claimed to be national leaders on diversity and equality. Not if you actually worked for them....
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Date: 2015-01-15 12:28 am (UTC)*headdesk* For god's sake, it's 20 years - effectively a generation - since the Beth Jordache (Anna Friel) lesbian kiss on Brookside. And doubtless there were complaints back when Star Trek had the first interracial kiss on US TV (Kirk/Uhura IIRC), but this is how we make progress, by making these things normal and a regular part of prime-time. If people are still complaining 20 years on, clearly we need more lesbian kissing, not less!
At Evil Aerospace the blatant disregard extended to even reading the legislation. I had to explain to the then newly appointed head of Occupational Health what the Disability Discrimination Act actually said. I mean, you would have thought being up to date on the relevant laws and regulations was the kind of thing they would have checked before offering her the job!
What particularly peed me off was that they regularly claimed to be national leaders on diversity and equality. Not if you actually worked for them....