[Levitz]

Funny enough, I see this whole framing as sexist itself.

Nobody would have bat an eye if he said "clueless guys" or "clueless gents", and given the prevalence of women in HR, that wording would actually have more chances of having a sexist background to it.

[LeafItAlone]

“guys” is gendered but is very often used to mean a general group.

>given the prevalence of women in HR, that wording would actually have more chances of having a sexist background to it.

The reason there are more women than men in HR is clearly because the men they do hire are too clueless and get fired faster. Ever have an HR department with all men? Most dysfunctional department I’ve ever interacted with! “Clueless HR men” is just redundant. The ~25% that exist are DEI hires. So it wouldn’t be sexism, it would be reality.

[planb]

You‘re right, but that just reflects the structural sexism in our society while the wording by the op was intentional (I suppose. If not, I might as well be more sexist then he is).