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PlayStation boss Jim Ryan sent an email today asking his staff to "respect differences of opinion" on abortion rights.
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There is only one valid "opinion" on the topic of abortion rights and that is "women should have abortion rights."
Anything less than that should not be respected. Ever.
Seriously, what the actual fuck is this garbage?
Anything less than that should not be respected. Ever.
Seriously, what the actual fuck is this garbage?
They could just shut the fuck up since it's not their business.
Yeah, they should be fired. At that point they clearly care more about telling everyone their shitty opinion on women's rights than they do about their job.
Weird argument. You generally want more people around to keep the economy running.
But of course, it should be the right of people to decide having children or not.
I would've loved to have seen his face when he hit send and to see what his reaction is right now. I'm sure he was thinking "everyone will love me for this". Jim Ryan has said some really dumb stuff before, but this... this takes the cake.
Now we wait for his apology, which will either be written by lawyers or will be some non apology double down. Dude's a clown through and through.
Kind of hoping he didn't pass it through them, otherwise it makes it even worse.
Shawn was the best. Sony fucked up letting him go.
Like did he seriously think employees based in a company based in CALIFORNIA were going to take that email well?
Overpopulation is something i believe will bite us hard in the ass at some point in the future. Lack of food, clean drinking water etc. More people means this will happen sooner. That's the society part of my comment.
I'm not anti-life, but if i was in a position of government, i would not force people to birth children. Quite the opposite, i'd give incentives to have less kids. The people being against abortion must be brainwashed or just paid by someone else who is.
Yup, his Twitter makes it clear where he'd stand on these kinds of topics. Such a shame he left PlayStation.
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Unless I'm misunderstanding the article, email says something like "hey, some people are pro abortion, others against it, we gotta live with each other. btw, my cat's birthday was a lot of fun!"
This is outrage worthy?
This is outrage worthy?
Jim Ryan and Shawn Layden were the candidates for Andrew House's job. They picked Jim Ryan.
A lot of people think that they made a mistake.
Jim Ryan is incapable of making sensible statements, it's wild how often you hear "Controversial statement by Jim Ryan" mentioned.
But this is something else entirely, this is supporting a directly hateful agenda that aims to limit the personal freedom of women, he should not come back from this and his ass should be blasted in to the sun.
I don't care if this statement comes from him actively supporting the anti-abortion movements or if it's just him being a huge twat that wants to avoid conflict, the statement ultimately supports anti-abortion by ways of silencing conversation.
Fuck Jim Ryan.
But this is something else entirely, this is supporting a directly hateful agenda that aims to limit the personal freedom of women, he should not come back from this and his ass should be blasted in to the sun.
I don't care if this statement comes from him actively supporting the anti-abortion movements or if it's just him being a huge twat that wants to avoid conflict, the statement ultimately supports anti-abortion by ways of silencing conversation.
Fuck Jim Ryan.
The only thing any man in a position of power should be saying about abortion rights is that everyone who can become pregnant deserves them unequivocally.
This whole let's hear both sides or let's respect each other opinion is beyond stupid and incredibly dangerous.
I don't follow your situation here. If they don't care, or don't want conflict in the office, doesn't the problem already solve itself?
Taking a stance on an issue that most people are on the same page about shouldn't be too hard
Shawn Layden wasn't really that great, this is on another level (different role too i think) but lets not romanticize shawn.
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I hope this was the intent honestly, and not a "both sides" thing that it can be read as. Some way of peacekeeping I guess.
Of course yes, because those who are against do not have the right to force woman to give birth against their will
Seems like he wanted to a bit about being anti-choice by hiding it under a false veneer of civility.
You can tell this dumbass is sheltered. Because there's no logic behind sending this out as a company wide email and expecting people not to be upset with you.
The head of my company both siding something like rights to abortions, before waffling on about his cats and wanting a dog would get me pretty annoyed.
Yes.
This is not a 'both sides' situation. One side is right and one is wrong.
And to clarify for you, the side that wants to take a woman's rights away from her is the wrong side.
Hint: one side is entirely against "living with each other" and has been actively trying to force their own preference on the other side for decades.
The "pro abortion" side isn't forcing everyone to get abortions.
It feels like he's trying to joke about it to deflect from the issue and then coming across as an idiot. It's like he's too afraid to say that misogynists are bad and we don't want their money.
By "retract", do you mean they sent a follow-up apology email or they literally just told IT to recall the email? If it's the latter, they are absolutely clueless idiots.
This. they're just not the same anymore in more ways than one.
More proof that there are always people that will defend anything
He didn't need to make a statement about people's rights like this.
