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My Mother Never Saw the Irony in Calling Me a Son of a Bitch
I loves me some irony. In fact (and picking up where my colleague left off), I relished the irony over the weekend of the much-maligned Indianapolis Colts defense shutting down the Baltimore Ravens, which featured the NFL’s top-rated defense. The irony of watching my colleague suffer an Eagles loss while I delighted in their ability to cover the spread was not lost on me (or the $75 I won), either. [That’s not really irony, boy, it’s just schadenfreude. —Seth]
But, in legal-related news, here is the richest irony of them all: Motherhood, a retail outlet that specializes in maternity clothing, has settled a lawsuit brought against the company for … wait for it! wait for it! … pregnancy discrimination.
Indeed, Motherhood’s parent company, Mothers Work, Inc., has agreed to pay $375,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the company refused to hire qualified applicants because they were pregnant. The biggest hunk of the settlement will go to an assistant manager who noticed a pattern in Motherhood’s hiring practices that excluded pregnant applicants. She was fired for the discovery. Two other women will receive $20,000, after they were denied employment for being pregnant. A third woman, who was fired during her pregnancy, will receive the same amount.
Sadly, there is little irony in watching Peyton Manning — six days from now — get knocked out of the playoffs by the (fucking) Patriots for the third time in five years. Only abject misery. [And it will be my turn to bask in the schadenfreude. —Seth]
