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July 5, 2007
Perfume Ban in the Name of Moonbattery
According to the dictates of political correctness, the needs and wants of people who are in some way defective must be addressed at all costs; the normal majority's interests are irrelevant. To impose this depraved ideology, we have disability discrimination laws, which are being evoked by one Susan McBride, an office worker for the city of Detroit, who claims that perfume gives her a headache and makes her cough.
This being abnormal, it qualifies McBride as defective. Therefore others must bend to her will and whim.
McBride demands that her fellow workers be forced to forsake any sort of scent at work. Further, she wants free money, for "pain, suffering, humiliation and outrage."
Outrage is the word, all right. McBride has availed herself of medical treatment and was "off work for some time" due to her alleged perfume allergy. As a city employee, no doubt she availed herself of generous medical leave policies. That's okay, taxpayers have plenty of money.
When Dems manage to replace our healthcare system with socialized medicine, you can look forward to a three-week wait for the emergency room while folks like Susan McBride get their free treatment for not liking perfume, in order to have a medical justification for not showing up at work. Welcome to the world of "social justice."
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 5, 2007 4:49 PM
Comments
Correct caption for your photo: There isn't much LEFT that can be banned in the name of moonbattery.
Posted by: Pam at July 5, 2007 5:10 PM
Does that include patchouli oil, which could gag a sanitation worker? I'm just askin'.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 5, 2007 6:44 PM
This from Detroit, a city that has managed to drive out every major national supermarket chain from the city, partly because of moonbattery (race-based lawsuits, failure of the education system to create useful employees, rampant theft, violence... the usual products of 40 years of far left city government).
Posted by: V the K at July 5, 2007 6:45 PM
Last year I wrote an essay urging that we End the Occupation of Detroit: No Blood for Cars
Posted by: The Panday at July 5, 2007 6:56 PM
I've worked in an office setting with people who covered themselves in cologne and perfume rather than bathe. It made me physically ill to breathe in this stuff every single day. My throat would get sore, my nose would run, and I was miserable.
Allergies are not a matter of preference and if you think so then you can eat a salad made with poison ivy to prove it to me as it is a common allergy. People can and do have allergies so I wouldn't be so quick to proclaim her a moonbat.
Although, rather than sue my workplace, I shamed my fellow co-workers into cutting back on their perfume use by nicknaming one woman "Puddles"(due to the puddles of perfume she left wherever she went) and "Stinky" for a young black fellow who thought he smelled like a pimp. Needless to say, a player doesn't want a nickname like Stinky. LOL
Posted by: Conky at July 5, 2007 7:49 PM
VH: I find your article on the poor perfume-sensitive lady very nasty indeed. You made me shed a tear, so I'll be filing litigation very soon (hope you've got a good lawyer). I don't know, how does half a million dollars in settlement sound to you?
Oh, okay, but I won't take a penny less than $250,000.00; if not, see you in court, buddy, and by the way, my attorney is the guy who got all those millions for the McDonald's hot-coffee-in-the-lap lady. Man, is this a great country, or what? I once thought you actually had to WORK for a living, but now . . .!
Posted by: jc14 at July 5, 2007 8:54 PM
"Worked" is the most important term in that comment. If it was just one person, that shaming angle might be effective, but if you worked somewhere that has a culture of many/most folks smelling like French whores, you did the right thing by quitting and not being a jackass who litigates every unpleasantness in life. Thank you, Conky.
Posted by: skh.pcola at July 5, 2007 10:04 PM
The smell-i-fascists have already been on the rampage in SF. I saw a 60 minutes a few years ago that exposed California as paying for hundreds of families of 'smell' victims to live in luxury on the tax-payer's dime for unprovable "suffering".
I've applied myself as Lewinsky-challenged, listing as my disability an insufficient number of work related blow jobs by my intern. Clearly the failure of my employer to accomodate my needs is a violation fo the American's with Disabilities Act and I expect to be compensated.
Posted by: DANEgerus at July 6, 2007 9:26 AM

