Rocco Maiolo's Ramblings and Musings

Lately I've seen a couple of things on Facebook to which I've had a predictable reaction given my worldview. http://www.refinery29.com/2017/03/144819/sexual-assault-mugging-video-parody-viral The above parody: a man comes into the police station after being mugged at knife point. The female officers intimate that maybe he was asking for it because he was dressed so well and he didn't scream. My thoughts/reaction:  funny but a profoundly true comment of gender discrimination.  And then there was  this  floating around a few days ago: Short version of  the above : a male employee accidentally -- then intentionally -- swaps email signatures with a female employee. Both are shocked at the worse/better treatment they receive based purely on gender. My thoughts/reaction.  Wow. Sexism strikes in 2017. I recall a female co-worker's story of being bullied by a male boss. I remember thinking at the time,  he did what? He said what? He never treats me like that.  R

Last year was one of the most difficult years of my life. I had finished three years of educational consulting with the school board. They didn't want me back for a fourth year. I thought I'd be printing resumes, putting on a suit and doing interviews. The board owed me a job, but I thought I'd have no control over where I landed. I was told this when I started my three years as a consultant. Still, after nearly thirty years of teaching, the prospect of landing in a really hard school and/or driving for forty minutes to and from work in my last year before retirement wasn't a thrill. And I have to say, at the time, the rejection stung. Unbeknownst to me, the last school I taught at had to take me back. The principal called and told me she received an "obligation memo" -- if I wanted back in, they had to take me. I took it. In September of 2015, I was back at the last school in which I had taught prior to my consulting gig. I did a five year stint there

Don't click on the video yet... Thoughts? Predictions? Misgivings? Straight, male, British white guy talking about political correctness... I find it funny/ironic that more often than not when people are making the argument that political correctness has gone too far it comes from white, straight, male, Anglo, dominant culture, "right' side of history... need I go on? Check out a few comments I found attached to some different internet sites where the video appears: " Seems to me that people are very easily offended, they should learn to grow up and ignore it if they don't like it Leave it to one of the greatest comedians of all time to state the truth about BS political correctness and its inevitability to drive us to an Orwellian 1984 society!!! Bravo John, Bravo!!! Very well said Mr John Cleese how could anyone call this great man a racist he was and still is one of the funniest men in the world he is a living LEGEND ...political correctness &qu