Sow's Ear Mal wrote:But I think the ugliest, and most bafflingly ignored point of this thread is the bizarre, misinformed, and frankly misogynistic rant by the original poster. l
I'm with you, S.E.M..
Sashguy - if it is your BOLDLY STATED POLICY - ie in printed advertising, on your site, on client contracts that you won't work on homes where a pregnant woman lives, well that is the way you do business. It seems like a lot to ask to have any post-pubertal to perimenopausal XX individuals at an address prove they are not pregnant, in order to contract your services. It is also probably in violation of several laws pertaining to sex based discrimination.
It was the contempt in how you expressed this that got me.
Stringing together words like "ignorant" and "Neanderthal compulsion" and "nesting" pertaining to a pregnant woman's request that you restore her windows ? Frankly it sounded like your opinion of this woman was that she was intellectually impaired, subhuman, and driven to incomprehensible biological urges.
Contacting a professional to repair/restore some windows before a baby is born does not sound like something a thoughtless, compulsive animal does.
After your warm welcome/paternal lecture she probably contacted several window replacement companies who are happy to do business with her. She probably spoke about this interaction with her friends and neighbours and posted about it on social media, like modern types do. I hope it won't change her attitude towards her old home, that the original features are not worth saving or fixing.
She doesn't get her windows fixed, you don't make any money from the job, but somehow you are a hero for being concerned about the health of her fetus, by protecting her from herself, since she doesn't know any better ? Hmmm.
This makes me feel very uncomfortable.
Here's a news item about the first woman to run the Boston Marathon (1972), after she registered under a gender neutral name. Women were prevented from participating as it was believed that marathons would injure their "reproductive organs". In the spirit of protecting this frail and obviously foolish female(aka a rebellious woman with a mind of her own), she was PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED by a male race official who attempted to remove her from the marathon. This was 1972, everyone, not 1872 ! But those men knew what was best for her !
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/meet-first-woman-run-boston-marathon-illegally-50-years-ago/