Train drivers overwhelmingly middle-aged white men

63daddy · 2024-05-01T15:44:16+00:00

When men are over represented it’s seen as a lack of diversity and a travesty that needs to be fixed by policies of discrimination against men. When women become over represented, it’s seen as a success to be celebrated.

Let’s face it, it doesn’t really matter what race or sex a train driver is. They should hire people based on their merit, and let the demographics fall as they may.

We should call DEI officers, PD officers for promoting discrimination. Promoting discrimination is a step backwards, not forwards.

FourEaredFox · 2024-05-01T15:55:25+00:00

Great! Now do construction, waste disposal and sewage workers.

AMetal0xide · 2024-05-01T15:52:04+00:00

"Breaking news: Middle-Aged white men like trains"

I am shocked I tell you, shocked!

carpeCactus · 2024-05-01T16:54:12+00:00

Using their line of logic, there needs to be more female garbage collectors, roofers, ditch diggers, asphalt layers…essentially all the stuff the bottom 20% of men have to do.

DifficultPapaya3038 · 2024-05-01T15:50:26+00:00

You know what I thought about when I was 19 taking a one hour trip on the train back home from college everyday? “I wonder if my train driver is a strong independent qween” NOT 😐👎🏽 I don’t care what race you are I only care if you’re qualified and not gonna get me killed in the vehicle you’re operating.

gabriel-kornilov · 2024-05-01T15:52:49+00:00

Train drivers overwhelmingly middle-aged white men

OMG! The horror! Let's kill them all.

bigsquid69 · 2024-05-01T18:16:15+00:00

New headline. Human Resource mangers are overwhelmingly middle age women

combs1945a · 2024-05-01T16:21:44+00:00

I think we should hire people that put lives in their hands of others not based on merit

MannerNo7000 · 2024-05-01T20:10:53+00:00

Psychology is like 80% women. Same with nursing, teaching and social work.

Alternative-Oil-6288 · 2024-05-01T15:38:14+00:00

It probably doesn’t pay well enough to necessitate DEI.

SarcasticallyCandour · 2024-05-01T18:31:39+00:00

Health science, biology, teaching, HR, nutrition, fashion, journalism, social work are overwhelmingly middle-class, white and female. Should we diversify that?

This is a math problem. If men are 50% of the population and there are so many female dominated fields, then there has to be many male dominated ones to compensate that imbalance.

We can only diversify all of them. But its all about holding middle-class, white female dominated areas that way while not allowing icky males to dominate any field.

wildlandroamer · 2024-05-01T19:21:00+00:00

Oh no not white men working again /s

Peoniesandpopsicles · 2024-05-01T18:26:27+00:00

Where is the headline reading “School teachers are overwhelmingly white women”, it’s a fact. School teachers have a massive influence over children and yet men are overwhelmingly under represented in schools. …but the biggest thing we should be concerned about is not enough women train operators, seriously?!?

Shreddersaurusrex · 2024-05-01T18:15:49+00:00

Yeah I explain this to ppl who try to say that women could run society on their own. Most of these critical services are provided by men.

springy · 2024-05-01T16:36:16+00:00

Wait! I thought we weren't supposed to "assume gender based on mere biological presentation" nowadays. Maybe most of those men driving trains actually "identify as woman". Problem solved!

SodaBoBomb · 2024-05-01T18:12:44+00:00

Ah. Yet another example of why the world would fall apart of women collectively didn't exist for a week but would be fine if men didn't.

Oh wait a second.

reddit_is_trash_2023 · 2024-05-01T20:24:11+00:00

Ah yes, being white and being a male is the worst sin, yet they claim race and gender discrimination is wrong. True clowns. Western ideology is screwed

MGTOWManofMystery · 2024-05-01T21:47:17+00:00

Most train drivers in China are Chinese men! The horror!

MissDaphneAlice · 2024-05-01T16:31:12+00:00

Didn't men invent trains? Didn't men build the railroads? Who shoveled the coal all day every day?

This always seems like a little girl mad at her brother for not giving her his toys and the parents forcing him to so they can have silence. Lol.

Reason & accountability.

ZandorFelok · 2024-05-01T18:12:00+00:00

Oh oh do coal miners

hawksdiesel · 2024-05-01T17:45:49+00:00

Hire based on merit, but discriminating against white men seems to be a thing lately. Please continue to the construction, waste disposal and sewage workers....

Admirable__Panda · 2024-05-01T19:23:37+00:00

Let's be honest,
Women will never talk about how they're underrepresented in low-income jobs, but they'll nitpick about the high-income jobs to gain sympathy.
It's all a victim mentality.
When in the real world, it doesn't happen to the exaggerated extent.

Baboon_Stew · 2024-05-01T19:35:49+00:00

Because when you're driving a 100,000 ton train rolling along at 50MPH filled with passengers, diversity is always more important than competence.

SecTeff · 2024-05-01T20:07:44+00:00

I attended DEI training that work made me do (it was awful). I looked at the company afterwards on LinkedIn and they had about 20 women working for them and just one man (who did some consultancy around their website).

Often you will find HR and DEI fields and also much of psychology (where people talk about gender) incredibly gender bias. They all have a blind spot to this.

In their minds women are a systematically oppressed group whereas men aren’t so there can’t be sexism or bias towards men as it’s men who have the ‘systematic power’.

Crittercaptain · 2024-05-01T22:36:51+00:00

Let's just fire all of these hardworking men whose fault it isn't that they are white and men and wanted to operate trains.

blackakainu · 2024-05-01T16:26:48+00:00

😵‍💫

WannabeLeagueBowler · 2024-05-01T18:02:34+00:00

The left is going to fix that, to make sure there is no solidarity between workers.

ttlx0102 · 2024-05-01T19:09:59+00:00

In the U.S. there have been initiatives going back 40 years to try and entice females to becomes Locomotive Engineers (train driver being the European term).

There is little interest from the females in doing this particular job, which is fine.

CrowMagpie · 2024-05-01T20:39:34+00:00

Whenever I hear stuff like this, two things go through my head:

1) Is there anybody preventing women / black people / other groups from joining this job (or hobby) en masse? If so, yes, it's a problem. If not, maybe it's only white men who are drawn to the job in the first place? (Although in the case of the race, isn't Britain overwhelmingly white?)

2) Why are you complaining to *me* about it? I don't have any control over who is and is not a train driver in Britain. I can't force a black woman to take that job if she doesn't want it. I can't affect their hiring practices. Talking to me about it is just a whinge designed to make me feel bad for having a job.

OGKillertunes · 2024-05-01T18:29:23+00:00

The president of Columbia university seems like placement not due to merits. Don't figure she'll last much longer.

belody · 2024-05-01T21:58:20+00:00

Train drivers overwhelmingly middle-aged autistic white men who go home and play train simulator

Aquariumpsychotic · 2024-05-01T23:49:43+00:00

99 percent of brick layers are men

Extreme_Spread9636 · 2024-05-02T00:09:09+00:00

"But lately I am seeing a lot more diversity. More younger people, black people, women. I'm here for it, I love it!"
Fewer than one in ten drivers are women: 91.5% are men, 8.5% are women, up from 6% two years ago.

That is the result they are proud of?? I love how the articles are written as if they made significant improvements and there is no intention to throw the advice to increase this number intensively. If this was an article about men being the majority of doctors, they would have absolutely thrown discrimination, a huge gender imbalance and that it requires a big change to equalize it. There is absolutely no intention here to show that there is an issue, but to throw articles around as decoy to make it look like as if they are working on it.

Kiritowerty · 2024-05-02T01:54:07+00:00

Like who cares, as long as the person is doing there job and getting me where I need to go safely, who legitimately cares lmao

Current_Finding_4066 · 2024-05-02T12:44:31+00:00

In a predominantly white country most employees at a job that is not coveted by women are men? Amazing.

kkkan2020 · 2024-05-02T14:31:06+00:00

is theer anything wrong with middle age white men being train conductors if the trains run on time and with little to no issues?

bifewova234 · 2024-05-01T18:12:33+00:00

Obviously the white male drivers should be replaced with minority women. A termination and hiring campaign should be commenced immediately to fix the problem.

caitlyns_ult · 2024-05-01T21:07:07+00:00

ngl i hate the whole “diversity” thing when it comes to women, who cares about the gender, race or sexuality of the driver or worker, it shouldn’t really matter

Crittercaptain · 2024-05-01T22:40:28+00:00

Let's just fire all of these men whose fault it isn't that they're boring and also not diverse women.

loldave87 · 2024-05-01T17:36:22+00:00

I don't know what's happening in the Netherlands. For some reason I see more women bus drivers. It's almost like they are trying to hit some quota.

tlindsay6687 · 2024-05-01T20:02:36+00:00

There was a point in time when pushing DEI was very necessary. That time is gone.

Crittercaptain · 2024-05-01T22:36:59+00:00

Let's just fire all of these hardworking men whose fault it isn't that they are white and men and wanted to operate trains.

Crittercaptain · 2024-05-01T22:37:08+00:00

Let's just fire all of these hardworking men whose fault it isn't that they are white and men and wanted to operate trains.

Crittercaptain · 2024-05-01T22:37:18+00:00

Let's just fire all of these hardworking men whose fault it isn't that they are white and men and wanted to operate trains.

assin18 · 2024-05-01T23:00:31+00:00

The operator for trains is an incredibly difficult job because it’s taxing on the mind. These men barely have a social life because their always on call. It would be incredibly hard for anyone looking to settle down and work that job

Interesting_Mango948 · 2024-05-02T03:08:41+00:00

it's tough to push the lever up to go and back to stop

DreadfulCadillac1 · 2024-05-02T03:20:21+00:00

Ok? Believe it or not, that's primarily the demographic that is obsessed with trains and everything to do with em - Seems fine by me! Give jobs to those who are actually interested in em!

jjch102296 · 2024-05-02T03:53:26+00:00

Question how often have you seen a girl say she wants to driver trains when she grows up? Yes I am sure that there are some that would like that and grow up to do that. But…… it is mostly guys that like this type of stuff. It is like saying “Hey you know that series we made mainly for boys. Apparently more boys like it than girls!”

_DynaMole_ · 2024-05-02T04:13:33+00:00

It’s easier to get into college as a female change my mind

espositojoe · 2024-05-02T05:22:51+00:00

Goodness gracious. Whatever shall we do?

Infinite_Procedure98 · 2024-05-02T05:58:28+00:00

In France, I'd say about 60% of train and bus drivers are black men, 20% are white men and 20% are women of all colors.

tsukaimeLoL · 2024-05-02T07:16:36+00:00

Feminists will be outraged once they learn the laborforce itself is "overwhelmingly" middle-aged white men (in the west)

Meangirrrl22 · 2024-05-02T07:27:35+00:00

Ya, thank God. I don’t wanna wreck and die

Cfunk_83 · 2024-05-02T07:57:37+00:00

Breaking News: Nail Technicians overwhelmingly Chinese and Eastern-European women.

Come on guys, let’s kick off! Fuck the matriarchy and her gatekeeping of this sector.

White_Buffalos · 2024-05-02T07:57:37+00:00

DEI is just corporate bussing. Except there's no actual upside.

Sityu91 · 2024-05-02T09:12:16+00:00

Waiting for the more frequent headlines about train crashes.

Sam__Toucan · 2024-05-02T11:53:21+00:00

The average gold miner is 42 and male. But the average gold digger is 24 and female.

NeoNotNeo · 2024-05-02T11:57:38+00:00

Construction workers overwhelmingly men of any color. About 2 % are women.

94Caesar · 2024-05-02T17:52:54+00:00

All I can think is: YOU'RE WELCOME??

January1252024 · 2024-05-03T21:55:12+00:00

Human Resources overwhelmingly white basic bitches.

Oh my god, who cares...

gmhmfc1874 · 2024-05-01T20:02:36+00:00

Seriously, stuff the BBC.

pwishall · 2024-05-02T02:42:04+00:00

There's a head of "talent, diversity, and inclusion" at the railroad. And people wonder why fares are increasing so much.

penduR7 · 2024-05-02T00:10:33+00:00

Fuck that cancer called DEI

prattalmighty · 2024-05-01T17:25:22+00:00

I can think of three train drivers I know of who operate a variety of engines from LRT to cargo haulers. Only one's a white guy

EclecticallySound · 2024-05-01T20:01:59+00:00

My mother is a train driver in the UK. For years she was black listed because she was a female. So what’s the truth here ?

Suspicious_Collar775 · 2024-05-01T20:40:30+00:00

Here in North America, White males are grossly over-represented among serial murderers. If chicks really desire equality, more of them need to start emulating Aileen Wuornos and Karla Holmka

Title	Train drivers overwhelmingly middle-aged white men
Author	True-Lychee
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Date	May 1, 2024 3:26 PM UTC (2 years ago)
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