The New York Times published a piece asking if women ruined the workplace. In a time when misogyny, sexism, racism, and discrimination are running rampant because men have been in charge, that question is more than insulting—it’s delusional. The workplace was already broken long before women had the chance to step into it.
Men built it on competition instead of collaboration, hierarchy instead of humanity, power instead of purpose. They filled it with wage gaps, glass ceilings, and systems designed to protect the comfort of the incompetent. The same men who start wars, crash markets, abuse power, and call it leadership are now pointing fingers at women for daring to ask for equality.
And let’s not forget the weak men—the ones who know better but stay silent. The ones who nod along in meetings, laugh at sexist jokes, and defend the status quo because courage might cost them comfort. They are the enablers, the protectors of power, and the reason the same mediocrity keeps rising to the top. These men aren’t victims of the system—they are its bodyguards.
So keep being loud, ladies. Keep making them uncomfortable. Tear through every room they told you wasn’t yours. Take up more space than they ever imagined possible—and watch the mediocre men shrink to fit the corners they built for everyone else.
If we really want to talk about who ruined what, let’s look at the boardrooms, the legislative halls, and yes, the gilded ballroom in the White House, where vanity parades as policy while millions go hungry because social programs were gutted in the name of austerity. That’s the real rot.
Women didn’t ruin the workplace. They showed up, worked harder, endured more, and then got accused of breaking what was already collapsing under the weight of greed and fragility. The truth is, women didn’t bring the fire. They just refused to keep working in the wreckage.
