Post: #1

You can thank feminism (and white knights) when you're left behind in a burning building because the firefighter is too winded to run up your stairs.

http://nypost.com/2013/11/10/female-fdny...es-anyway/

Quote:Despite failing a required FDNY running test five times, Wendy Tapia was allowed to graduate from the Fire Academy and become a firefighter. On Dec. 2, she is taking the test for an unprecedented sixth time.

Tapia was one of only five women among 285 new firefighters who graduated from the FDNY’s Randall’s Island training academy on May 17.
The class was hailed as the most diverse group of rookies ever, all of them EMTs or paramedics seeking promotion to firefighter. She joined a group of just 35 women among the 11,000 Bravest.

But Tapia, 31, has yet to work a shift at her firehouse, ­Engine No. 316 in East Elmhurst, Queens, where she was assigned May 18.
At the end of 18 weeks of probationary training, Tapia failed to run 1¹/₂ miles in 12 minutes without gear, as required by the academy. She blamed a foot injury.

The FDNY let her graduate anyway — and gave her five more deadlines over the past six months to pass the running test.
She failed all five times, insiders said.

Normally, probationary firefighters who fail the running test at the end of academy training don’t graduate — period. They flunk out but can join the next academy class, start over and get another chance to pass the course.

Tapia’s treatment has inflamed male and female colleagues alike.
“I don’t know how she got to graduate. It never should have happened,” a female firefighter told The Post. “You should not graduate if you can’t meet all the requirements — male, female, black or white.”
After graduation, instead of joining fellow firefighters in the field, Tapia went on medical leave from May 20 to June 10 to recover from her foot injury. She then went on light duty until July 2, reporting to FDNY headquarters in Downtown Brooklyn.

She “reports to work . . . wearing our uniform? F- -KING JOKE!” one firefighter fumed on an online rant site.
Tapia returned to full duty — but was sent back to Randall’s ­Island for extra help.
“They put so many resources into training just her,” an insider said. “Every time she fails, she has a different excuse.”
Tapia failed the running test once in August, once in September and three times in October, said sources familiar with her situation.
In her last try, on Halloween, she clocked a 12:23, still too slow.
But FDNY Commissioner Salvatore Cassano gave Tapia another break after United Women Firefighters (UWF), a fraternal group of active and retired FDNY women, intervened to block her potential firing. They said she had an ­upper respiratory infection.
But suffering a cold is no excuse, the female firefighter said.
“We have to do our job in all types of situations,” she said. “If I go to a fire, what am going to do — tell the guys I’m staying out by the ­engine because I’m not feeling so good? It’s 100 percent unheard of.”
She said FDNY brass, under pressure from a court order to hire more minorities, “want their numbers — that’s all it is.”
But that does female firefighters no favors, she added.
“It’s making us look bad. It’s undermining ­everything we’ve strived for and achieved of our own accord,” she said.
Another insider said it also ­undermines confidence in the Fire Department.
“If someone’s life is hanging on the line, you only get one try. There’s no ­do-overs when it’s for real,” the insider said.
Tapia was “unavailable for an interview,” the FDNY said.
A spokesman said Tapia “successfully completed every requirement to graduate from the academy except the run — which she was unable to do after sustaining a work-related injury. We have provided her time to recover from her injury and will test her again on Dec. 2.”
He did not address Tapia’s five failed attempts since graduation.
Officials from UWF did not return calls or e-mails.

Post: #2

Quote:Tapia failed to run 1¹/₂ miles in 12 minutes

Post: #3

Don't worry about it. Natural selection will sort it all out in the end.
She'll probably die in a fire trying to save a cat or something.

Post: #4

These feminists and manginas have no shame gambling with other people's lives. Fuckin' incredible.

Post: #5

It's been said before, but in those cities, they need to get the 911option of 'if your building is on fire and you want us to send firefighters who are assholes but good firefighters, press one, if you want women firefighters that flunked the fitness test, press 2".

The only good news from this story that I can tell, is that they haven't actually let the woman start working yet, I don't think?(not until she passes the fitness test)

Post: #6

(11-10-2013 12:43 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  Don't worry about it. Natural selection will sort it all out in the end.
She'll probably die in a fire trying to save a cat or something.

The issue is that she might end up inadvertently taking a few of her fellow firemen with her.

Post: #7

I see this kinda crap everywhere I go. When I hit the casinos in Atlantic City instead of seeing hot barmaids and waitresses walking around ...I see 50 year old fat women in skimpy outfits. I'm sure this will creep in to Hooters and every strip club.

It's anti-American I tell ya!! Communist if you will.

Post: #8

(11-10-2013 01:34 PM)nek Wrote:  

(11-10-2013 12:43 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  Don't worry about it. Natural selection will sort it all out in the end.
She'll probably die in a fire trying to save a cat or something.

The issue is that she might end up inadvertently taking a few of her fellow firemen with her.

And/or causing the deaths of people trapped inside a building.

Post: #9

She's a strong independent woman who don't need no fitness test.

Post: #10

(11-10-2013 01:36 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  I see this kinda crap everywhere I go. When I hit the casinos in Atlantic City instead of seeing hot barmaids and waitresses walking around ...I see 50 year old fat women in skimpy outfits. I'm sure this will creep in to Hooters and every strip club.

It's anti-American I tell ya!! Communist if you will.

Like Stalin said...

"You can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs"

For the left, the ends justify the means. It doesn't matter to leftist if families are destroyed or society collapses. As long as in the end everyone feels the same.

It is getting worse and worse in the USA, and things like this put all the citizens in direct risk of being hurt to fulfill some liberal feminist dream.

Post: #11

I can hoere the choir saying. " you go girl. Do your thing" in the background

Post: #12

(11-10-2013 01:50 PM)Sourcecode Wrote:  I can here the choir saying. " you go girl. Do your thing" in the background

She is so brave to keep soldering on even though the patriarchy is trying to defeat her with some stinkin' sexist fitness test.

Post: #13

A topic near but not very dear to me...I was actually weeks out from entering the FDNY Academy before they instituted a hiring freeze after dickhead Garafuis declared dem test raciss. I scored a 99.4 on the written, am ex-military (extra points), cleared the background check, passed the psych test and destroyed the physical test (although that's pass/fail now). I was at the top of the list, and they ended up hiring exactly zero from it in the name of diversity. Fuck me, right?

Post: #14

(11-10-2013 01:58 PM)spook Wrote:  A topic near but not very dear to me...I was actually weeks out from entering the FDNY Academy before they instituted a hiring freeze after dickhead Garafuis declared dem test raciss. I scored a 99.4 on the written, am ex-military (extra points), cleared the background check, passed the psych test and destroyed the physical test (although that's pass/fail now). I was at the top of the list, and they ended up hiring exactly zero from it in the name of diversity. Fuck me, right?

Post: #15

can't believe this hasn't been posted yet, but the fire chief in Queens is getting balls deep in this chic regularly. Isn't it obvious?

Post: #16

(11-10-2013 01:36 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  I see this kinda crap everywhere I go. When I hit the casinos in Atlantic City instead of seeing hot barmaids and waitresses walking around ...I see 50 year old fat women in skimpy outfits. I'm sure this will creep in to Hooters and every strip club.

so this will soon be a reality?

Post: #17

(11-10-2013 02:46 PM)master_thespian Wrote:  

(11-10-2013 01:36 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  I see this kinda crap everywhere I go. When I hit the casinos in Atlantic City instead of seeing hot barmaids and waitresses walking around ...I see 50 year old fat women in skimpy outfits. I'm sure this will creep in to Hooters and every strip club.

so this will soon be a reality?

dude what the hell

Post: #18

I wonder if our incoming mayor will do something about this.

Hell, who am I kidding, he's a bitch boy that lets his wife control him.

Can't believe I'm saying this but I'm actually going to miss Bloomberg.

Post: #19

(11-10-2013 01:58 PM)spook Wrote:  A topic near but not very dear to me...I was actually weeks out from entering the FDNY Academy before they instituted a hiring freeze after dickhead Garafuis declared dem test raciss. I scored a 99.4 on the written, am ex-military (extra points), cleared the background check, passed the psych test and destroyed the physical test (although that's pass/fail now). I was at the top of the list, and they ended up hiring exactly zero from it in the name of diversity. Fuck me, right?

Same thing happened to my dad. Lost out on a good paying job that would have changed the life of me and my brothers and sister and mom.

Oh well. To make a diverse omelette, you have to break a few eggs.

Post: #20

She might as well quit because no one at her firehouse will respect her at all. She will be a laughingstock and a pariah, I see several transfers in her future and she will ultimately quit and a lawsuit will soon follow for harassment or some other BS. Sad thing is she took the spot of someone who was actually qualified all in the name of equality. With the subsequent lawsuit that would come back and bite the NYC fire department in the ass.

Post: #21

LOL, even female firefighters are outraged at this. I wish actual rape victims would react like this when encountering feminist trolls.

Post: #22

(11-10-2013 12:43 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  Don't worry about it. Natural selection will sort it all out in the end.
She'll probably die in a fire trying to save a cat or something.

And she will be hailed as a hero.

Post: #23

(11-10-2013 12:43 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  Don't worry about it. Natural selection will sort it all out in the end.
She'll probably die in a fire trying to save a cat or something.

or mame and injury everyone else in the process

Post: #24

I think I'd run 1.25 miles in around 5 mins 40. How can she not run sub-12? That's slower than jogging pace.

Post: #25

(11-10-2013 06:46 PM)Que enspastic Wrote:  I think I'd run 1.25 miles in around 5 mins 40. How can she not run sub-12?

Because... patriarchy!