NY Times writer refuses to hire superbly qualified babysitter, because he's male

if you want a cleaner for female changing rooms, and the best cleaner is a man should you hire him?

if you want a waiter for an italian restaurant should you hire the chinese guy even though he's the best waiter?

there are cases when you can discriminate

The fact that you have no issue with a guy being discriminated when his qualifications are perfectly suitable.

I wouldnt hire a man either. The only bloke I'd want changing, cleaning or seeing my daughter naked is the father (or simply family).

Personally as a male, I would also feel uneasy with another male looking after my young daughter, what happens if she needed a nappy change? I personally would prefer a female.
Not so much of a big deal when they are older 7-8+.

You need to learn how to read.

I said "What makes you think I'm against 'sexism'?"

You need to learn how to read.

I said "What makes you think I'm against 'sexism'?"

but again, you would have a female clean your son? plus its not like no female ever commited a crime with a child as part of it

ok your not against sexism, in that case women have no place in uni so get back to the kitchen and make me a sandwich

OKOK, so you're for sexism but surely you probably are in greater favour of male discrimination than female/

I wouldnt hire a man either. The only bloke I'd want changing, cleaning or seeing my daughter naked is the father (or simply family).

You know, if you'd asked, I'd have responded with how I think there's always going to be certain professions which are generally more suited to one sex or the other, and gone on to say something about women of childbearing age and how age is as much a factor as sex and so on..

but with that statement you just made, you'd be too stupid to understand it.

No. Stop trying to make inferences you can't.

but the man was the best candidate, he had lots of experance and fantastic references from other employers so the only reason she didnt trust him because hes male

It is discrimination. Whether that is acceptable or not is a different matter. Societies tend to have a strange idea of when discrimination is or isn't acceptable. Of course, one could construct a statistical argument that says that because men commit more child-sex crimes then it is safer to employ a woman, but one can use that argument to justify a small business owner only employing white workers because they are statistically less likely to commit crime than black ones. We seem to have no problems in allowing insurance companies to use a similar style of discrimination.

However, I don't really think that the writer in question ever got anywhere near such a statistical argument as she was just acting out in accordance to an ingrained series of social norms that state that childcare is women's work and that men cannot see naked female children without having sexual thoughts, neither of which are correct.