Solution’s not always to fire

WE all feel for our sisters mistreated by male executives who were not only hotshots but also just plain hot. Forget these ladies’ schooling, intellect, looks, talent, background, zeal, the industry in its various forms is infected with predators. They crawl all over as numerous as ants in plants. And why did they do this? Because they could. And because it started way back when it took even longer for them to fumble with buttons than to unzip.

Now that courageous women have stepped forth to step on them, will the system go away for good? For always? I doubt that. We still have robbers, murderers, drug dealers, an alphabet soup of miscreants. It’ll just calm down. Go underground. But years and years after they did what they did, why fire them now? Embarrass these animals? Name them? Shame them? Make their pigsty ways public? For sure. Yes. 100 percent. Let families, co-workers, the public know. Let them stew in their own poo. Just seems unproductive for an organization — that may still harbor others — to suddenly get all righteous and dump them.

They’re tainted, dirtied, it’s done. Everybody knows. Some, now too old to make those same moves again, are lucky they can still go to the bathroom. Firing them long after can hurt the company itself. Installing a substitute or subaltern who mightn’t work as well hurts everyone — including innocents who need those jobs. Maybe, years later, they’re different. Why hurt the company? We’ve even done business with countries who declared war on us.