“Con de bald”: an insult that certainly does not please, but which in the United Kingdom has been downright judged as sexual harassment. This is indeed the sentence handed down by a panel of 3 industrial tribunal judges in the United Kingdom, following the complaint brought by Tony Finn, dismissed following 24 years of work in a manufacturing company in West Yorkshire, rapporte The Guardian.
During an argument in a workshop in July 2019, his supervisor had indeed treated him as “Bald cunt”, which can be translated as “bald cunt”. Strangely, it was the “bald” one who hurt the employee the most.
Hair loss is much more common in men than in women, so using it to describe someone is a form of discrimination. Commenting on a man’s baldness at work is tantamount to commenting on the size of a woman’s breasts, the ruling suggests.
“It is difficult to otherwise conclude that Mr. King said those words with the intention of violating Finn’s dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, demeaning, humiliating or offensive environment for him.i,” the judgment concluded.” By his own admission, Mr. King’s intention was to threaten and insult Finn. In our opinion, there is a connection between the word “bald” on the one hand and a characteristic specific to its sex on the other hand.“.
