Tuesday, October 24, 2006

How to commit self-Bardiacide

I was at a public NWU meeting today at which a high muckety-muck, having attended for the first time ever a contest of a women's sport for which he coached men's teams, said, "it wasn't as boring as I expected."

I have a near-suicidal urge to make sure that gets quoted exactly in the notes of the meeting.

5 comments:

  1. Disgusting, but all too common, sadly.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Is there any reason why he shouldn't be quoted exactly? Or at least paraphrased?

    Jerk.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Well, it's a very little thing to make a fuss over at a large, public meeting, and someone should have questioned it at the time (I know I was just shaking my head, so were others).

    There are so many bigger fish to fry at these meetings.

    ReplyDelete
  4. I definitely see your point, but it's so much FUN imagining what the "minutes-speak" version of that comment would be . . . .

    ReplyDelete
  5. Ideally, I would have picked my jaw up and asked a respectfully worded question asking to clarify what his expectations were or something.

    Maybe he'll never make another sexist comment, and it was just a bizarre brain fart quirk!

    ReplyDelete