Posted on 11/10/2007 1:45:42 PM PST by DeweyCA
NOW @ SDSU's bake sale charges men more for the same goods
Imagine going to McDonald's and hearing that, because you're a white male, you pay full price for a Big Mac. Meanwhile, the girl behind you pays three-quarters of the total amount for the same thing.
NOW (National Organization for Women) @ SDSU brought that reality to San Diego State yesterday at the Aztec Center by holding a pay equity bake sale. The prices for cookies reflected the difference of pay between genders and races.
"It's just to raise awareness," NOW @ SDSU Co-President Amanda Whitehead said. "A lot of people don't realize that white women make 75 percent of every dollar a white man makes or Hispanic women make 50 percent. It's pretty ridiculous. When they actually have to buy the cookies, it puts it into perspective."
White men, of whom NOW @ SDSU says make the most money of any demographic, were charged a dollar for the same cookie a Hispanic woman would pay 50 cents for. The group broke down the prices for white, Hispanic, black and Asian men and women, using pay scale statistics from NOW and www.payequity.org.
"It's a more unique way of showing the differences without just showing the statistics all the time," NOW @ SDSU Co-President Ashley Frazier said.
This was a creative way for NOW @ SDSU to present students and faculty with the facts, but some people didn't like the way the cookie crumbled.
Finance and statistics senior Adam Hyman passed out free doughnuts to men only after seeing the bake sale, disbelieving in the point NOW @ SDSU was trying to make. "I feel that America isn't anti-minority (or) anti-woman," Hyman said. "(I did this) to prove a point that if a woman were really getting paid 75 percent of what a man is, they could just quit their job and go work for somebody else.
"If this discrimination was real, then a company that only hires women would be better at business."
Identify yourself as a "transgender in transition", and they'll have to give you two cookies, half-price!
Bogus comparison
It takes twice as long and it is more difficult to cut a womens hair, unless she's a dike with a mans cut.
“NOW” = stooooooopid bleepin’ women, sometimes they should just be seen and not heard......groups like “NOW” just makes it worse for women, they should just shut up and go away.
lib garbage recycled.
This student just finished reading Gary Becker's book.
At least it wasn’t the most unique.
Thanks. Now, can we PLEASE move on to something important?
Rubbish.
The superlative hierarchy:
Unique, more unique, even more unique, uniquer, uniquest, most unique, duonique duoniquest....
Just proves high schools & colleges need more grammarians, and fewer "______-Studies" instructors.
If men would just take the time to bake their OWN d@mn cookies, none of this would be of any consequence. *SMIRK*
I think the important thing to take away from this is that the women were the ones baking cookies. Now, if they had been in their third trimester and didn’t have shoes on, all would be right in the world. ;)
If I were a barber, I'd charge THREE times as much to do a woman's cut: equal money for the cutting, and double again for all the extraneous crap, mind changing, and complaining that when she said "four inches off" I should have known she REALLY meant only TWO.
Yes, my grandfather was a barber; and my wife was a hairdresser cosmotologist.
I think she means that goldbricking NOW women take 75% of every dollar 'their man' earns, but is 'entitled' to 100% of it.
Z-z-z-z. Now clean up and put the dishes away while I go out for a couple of beers.
It is a private business - they should be able to charge however much they want to whomever. No one is being forced to use their service, right? So if they want to charge a woman $90 and a man $9, why is that your or anyone else’s business?
Don't bring facts into this.
It makes them angrier than they already are.
I would think so.
Either media liberals/leftists are startlingly stupid, or they think the general public is. Well, it's a bit of both. The 75cents/male$ propaganda of course compares all male wages IN AGGREGATE to all female wages IN AGGREGATE. Well, we men IN AGGREGATE do different work requiring more skill,risk, physical endurance, and training/investment; We do it longer and more consistently over a career(i.e. no time out for being subsidized by a spouse for the truly rewarding privilege of raising one's kids); we bear more responsibility for being the primary income to an intact/functional household; and the male wageslaves IN AGGREGATE are older than their female counterparts by at least a few years. Most folks earn more with a few more years experience. Adjusted for these relevant factors, there's probably a slight bias in favor of women, and against men.
While a liberal might be naive/stupid/mathematically impaired and easily mislead about all this, a true Leftist (especially the trained variety like Glorias Steinem and Allred) regards the '79 cents per male dollar' scam as effective propaganda, through repetition. And Leftists tend to regard with amused contempt the Conservative tendency to see all this as an earnest debate, where facts and reasoning matter. It's not that Katie Couric hasn't been informed...it's that She Doesn't Care what's true and accurate. There's an Anti-Male Feminist Agenda to be carried out and The Sisterhood wants to win.
Having dumped at least a few hundred million women on the labor market over the past forty years, thus driving down male wages( and the Corporatist agenda is well-served by this), feminists now use the '79cents/dollar' propaganda to scam/persuade employers that comparable female workers can be had at a bargain relative to the male competition. (Economically displacing men.) It also serves to promote an hospitable environment for discrimination lawsuits, anti-male legislation, and grievances from the subsidized, privileged gender.
/flee
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