Is it time to scrap gender specific awards?

[Gromit]

They each get their own font too.

Richard Monk gets Bolded.

I wonder what connections he must have to pull so much clout.

 

[kabbes]

This is the magazine we all get sent automatically, by the way. I read it to find out only who has been hauled before a tribunal this month. A few months ago, a guy I used to manage turned out to have been done for racially aggravated assault. The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries charged him an extra £200 on top of his sentence. That'll show him. Not as good as when somebody was done for murder, though, and the Institute levied a few grand in fines. More than racial assault but not as much as when you don't do all your CPD. The true heinous crime.

 

[Santino]

This is the magazine we all get sent automatically, by the way. I read it to find out only who has been hauled before a tribunal this month. A few months ago, a guy I used to manage turned out to have been done for racially aggravated assault. The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries charged him an extra £200 on top of his sentence. That'll show him. Not as good as when somebody was done for murder, though, and the Institute levied a few grand in fines. More than racial assault but not as much as when you don't do all your CPD. The true heinous crime.

How come the strategy is the spanner in the works?

 

[kabbes]

How come the strategy is the spanner in the works?

Did you not read what I said about only reading the tribunal section?

 

[existentialist]

Gender awards are one of the tools of equality. They seek to redress an imbalance.

If they create one problem whilst creating another then you need to ask yourself which problem is worse?
Does the value of that tool outweigh the cost?

A similar question could be posed for all women shortlists for MP elections.

If there was a magic solution that addressed both then surely we'd already be using it.

I think the cause of feminism should consider itself fortunate indeed to have you fighting so indefatigably on its behalf.

 

[DotCommunist]

indefatigably

 

[Gromit]

I think the cause of feminism should consider itself fortunate indeed to have you fighting so indefatigably on its behalf.

Thanks for the praise. Although I don't do it for praise. An award might be nice though. A non gender specific one preferably.

 

[existentialist]

This is the magazine we all get sent automatically, by the way. I read it to find out only who has been hauled before a tribunal this month. A few months ago, a guy I used to manage turned out to have been done for racially aggravated assault. The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries charged him an extra £200 on top of his sentence. That'll show him. Not as good as when somebody was done for murder, though, and the Institute levied a few grand in fines. More than racial assault but not as much as when you don't do all your CPD. The true heinous crime.

Your professional body fines you? Wow, with mine, we basically get extra homework

Oh, and to keep this vaguely on thread, BACP awards aren't gendered. But then, with only 20% of membership being male, I think that's discriminatory and unfair, obvs.

 

[existentialist]

Thanks for the praise. Although I don't do it for praise. An award might be nice though. A non gender specific one preferably.

My apologies - I hadn't intended for it to come across as praise.

 

[kabbes]

Your professional body fines you? Wow, with mine, we basically get extra homework

It's the only language actuaries understand.

If you commit murder and get 30 years then you might do it again. But if you also get fined £1000 by the Institute, you'll surely learn your lesson.

ETA: seems I misremembered the punishment. The penalty for murder was exclusion from membership for five years. Plus costs awarded against him.

the Panel found that the conviction of the indictable offence of murder

•  breached Principle 1 of the Actuaries’ Code, which concerned integrity
•  was, in accordance with Rule 1.12(b) of the Disciplinary Scheme, prima facie evidence of misconduct
•  constituted misconduct in terms of Rule 1.6 of the Disciplinary Scheme, in any event, being conduct which fell below the standards of behaviour and integrity which other Members or the public might reasonably expect of a Member.

 

[Gromit]

My apologies - I hadn't intended for it to come across as praise.

In that case I'm really confused.
You are saying you dont want me on the side of feminism.
You want me to be against it or something?

Why are you promoting misogyny? Shame on you.

 

[Sea Star]

I think it's a sop to the small number of people who identify as gender non-binary which will inevitably result in women losing out to men. As usual.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I think it's a sop to the small number of people who identify as gender non-binary which will inevitably result in women losing out to men. As usual.

Well, yes, a lot of comments in The Guardian saying it'll all be good until one gender overtakes the other in number of winners. And any attempt to keep the numbers equal to stop such a scenario surely invalidates the award.

 

[JimW]

This is the magazine we all get sent automatically, by the way. I read it to find out only who has been hauled before a tribunal this month. A few months ago, a guy I used to manage turned out to have been done for racially aggravated assault. The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries charged him an extra £200 on top of his sentence. That'll show him. Not as good as when somebody was done for murder, though, and the Institute levied a few grand in fines. More than racial assault but not as much as when you don't do all your CPD. The true heinous crime.

Does it have lonely hearts ads' under Love, Actuary?

 

[Celyn]

I wonder where the Kelpies fit in.

 

[Celyn]

Richard Monk gets Bolded.

I wonder what connections he must have to pull so much clout.

Well, he's a Monk. Perhaps his god is omnipotent, and can fix the actuary competition.

 

[existentialist]

In that case I'm really confused.
You are saying you dont want me on the side of feminism.
You want me to be against it or something?

Why are you promoting misogyny? Shame on you.

Oh dear.

 

[Plumdaff]

This is the magazine we all get sent automatically, by the way. I read it to find out only who has been hauled before a tribunal this month.

The NMC post all nursing disciplinary procedures online. Nurses get struck off a lot. There's a lot of claiming sick pay while working for private agencies in all specialities but errant adult nurses seem to be more incompetent while mental health offenders tend to be creepy drunkards who send dodgy text messages.