Posted on 09/01/2010 10:04:21 AM PDT by Christian Cage
Belinda Luscomb, writing for feminist mouthpiece Time Magazine, exposes the fact that young women make more than young men in virtually all big cities in the United States.
The triumphalism so clearly on display in the article shows the feminist claim that all they want is “equality” for the bald-faced lie that it is. No, they want supremacy, and they have demonstrated time and again that they will use the state to achieve it. In fact, it is through government interference that young women have gained the upper hand over men. Not only do public schools favor female learning styles, guaranteeing that there will be more women in college than men, affirmative action and mandated “equality” grants and government contracting rules ensure that women are well-represented in highly-paid jobs that were previously majority male. In the meanwhile, predominantly male jobs that women do not care for are eliminated or have seen wages depressed by an influx of illegal labor, aided and abetted by government negligence. Additionally, private sector pay has declined or stagnated while public sector pay has gone on to all-time highs as women come to dominate the taxpayer-funded jobs.
Essentially, the US has a two-tier system of socialism for female employees and unregulated capitalism for men, putting male employees at a huge disadvantage. The question this raises is where will the money to keep this system operating come from as men are squeezed into poverty and can no longer afford the onerous tax burden that places women in a position of supremacy?
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Once again, “more” equates to “equality” in the leftist mind. What the hell is wrong with people?
In core Democrat communities, a large percentage of the men are incarcerated or have criminal records, dramatically lowering the earning stats for that group.
The sad part is that our culture will not survive the perfect storm we are already in. This is just part of it.
OK, ladies, I hope you enjoy doing all the work.
I’ll be out on the golf course in case you decide you need me....
You are correct. It is up to us to teach our children well, as the song says.
I am sure now the feminists will fight for men to receive the same wages as women. Wouldn’t want to be utter hypocrites, right NOW gals (unequal wages are great only when women are paid more)?
Families pull together. In a family w/close ties, gender-assigned roles aren’t applicable in all situations. My family retained what is functional, and discarded that which is not. I thank the Creator every day for my beautiful family.
80% of the unemployed are men? I don’t think that can be right. Maybe 80% of the increase in numbers unemployed or such. Do you have a source?
So many well-paying manufacturing jobs have left our shores that our economy is now service-based, and services jobs are typically filled by women. So the men are unemployed.
It really sucks. We don’t make anything anymore, men can’t support their families and the women end up working rather than taking care of their kids.
Good!....they can pay my bills too!
Actually, all I want is for people to stop calling Sarah Palin an ‘ignorant slut’ and Hillary a ‘shrew’ and a ‘b*tch’ because I want my daughter to believe that one day she could be vice president or president no matter the political party she decides to be a part of. It doesn’t have to happen for her, she just needs to believe it could happen.
Oh, and I don’t want her to be the victim of a vicious sexual assault (again) either.
But then these things require a level of personal responsibility and cannot really be legislated or regulated to ‘not happen.’
Too much to ask?
There is no such thing as equal pay, too many variables to consider. Comparable and fair is fine with me.
(How’s that for taking an oversimplified characterization and putting it in real context?)
I know and why can’t they pay you according to your ability to do the job.
Oh, I forgot; that’s too sane.
If women are now paid more than men, it is because employers are only hiring people who will work for the most rock-bottom wages. Everyone else can go to hell in a handbasket.
The real bitter clingers in this picture are the rapacious CEO class, top shareholders, the lobbyists and the Congresspersons continuing to receive huge payouts while the young graduates, middle-aged family-supporters and pre-retirees are being shoved out of the middle class.
Feminism has outlived it usefulness (as all effective social movements eventually do).
Our culture views women as sexual objects now more than ever before. If a young girl doesn’t put out (or at least give a Lewinsky), she is considered a prude and gets no attention from boys, which the culture tells girls is of utmost importance.
All that has done is help young men get laid a lot more.
And the strong push for abortion rights has led to a world with less women. Chinese and Indian parents abort their daughters in hopes of having a son.
Like the Civil Rights movement, Feminism was important. But both movements achieved their objectives, and have spent the last two decades conjuring things up.
Today’s version of feminism benefits men more than women.
Sums up the situation nicely.
Sums up the situation nicely.
Most of the kids in college are female. At the University my daughter attends, 60% are women.
Who defines what this is, if not the free market?
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