JLR bans boys in favour of girls and “non-binaries”

[travisc]

Ok this has to be an early April fool.

Seriously?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9316005/a...


No it’s a wind up. No car manufacturer would be stupid enough to tell small boys Sod off you’re not welcome. Who do they think make buying decisions. Parents??

No I’m wrong if Subaru can sell to lesbians that non binary market is just crying out for Defenders.

https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/488042/

Marketing geniuses I stand corrected.

Edited by travisc on Tuesday 2nd March 13:40

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otolith said:

Yeah, clearly offering some "two week virtual work experience" opportunities to girls to try to get more of them into engineering is going to totally destroy Land Rover. They won't have any male engineers ever wanting to work there ever again after this.

It's the Mail.

Ok I know it’s the mail. I know that JLR will have male engineers, positive discrimination, gender balancing, no potential engineer left uncatered for regardless of orientation gender etc etc but essentially to tell young boys (who are still at the no job but a bedroom poster stage of life) don’t bother to apply to us is pretty poor.

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PeteinSQ said:

I do pretty much agree with you, but the messaging around this is pretty poor I think. I'd be very sorry for my sons if in future they get messages like this back from school. The message would come across to them that to move girls forwards they have to lessen the life choices of boys - which I don't think is the aim at all but that's how it could get interpreted.

Agreed

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travisc said:

Agreed

It’s not the “your welcome” bit but the
“Others need not apply”