acw,

As they say in 12 step groups:

Feelings are not facts.

Sexual capital doesn't give women the advantage. It seems to be the only thing that gives women a leg up so to speak and women are losing completely. Feminists don't care much about child custody. They want men to do half the child care. If they did, maybe they'd get custody.

It doesn't matter how much education women have. It doesn't pay off because of discrimination in the workplace.

You have to be kidding about domestic violence and rape. Women don't even report to police because they don't help and courts mostly blame women for rape.

Cultural perceptions are meaningless if it doesn't translate to equal representation, legal rights, power and economics.

And women are definitely disadvantaged in the workplace as all your articles state. The only respectable source of information in your articles was Heidi Hartmann and she said women are discriminated against in the workplace:

Factors may include: more women choose lower-paying professions than men; they move in and out of the workforce more frequently; and they work fewer paid hours on average.

Why that's the case may have to do in part with the fact that women are still society's primary caregivers, that some higher-paying professions require either too much time away from home or are still less hospitable to women than they should be.

However, while those factors account for a good portion of the wage gap, actual pay discrimination likely accounts for the balance, experts say.

Hartmann believes discrimination accounts for between 25 percent and 33 percent of the wage gap. Compensation specialist Gary Thornton, a principal in the HR management consulting firm Thornton & Associates, figures at least 10 percent to 15 percent does.

Whatever the breakout, there certainly are numerous studies that show discrimination -- however unconscious -- still exists. For instance:

* A recent Cornell study found that female job applicants with children would be less likely to get hired, and if they do, would be paid a lower salary than other candidates, male and female. By contrast, male applicants with children would be offered a higher salary than non-fathers and other mothers.

* A recent Carnegie Mellon study found that female job applicants who tried to negotiate a higher salary were less likely to be hired by male managers, while male applicants were not.

My friends, cousins, brothers and dad never had to pay for sex. Acquaintances may have paid for sex because I didn't know them as well but probably not. Acquaintances of acquaintances, perhaps.

Sexual capital (it shouldn't be called that because women aren't making money) is not a real privilege in the end. I suppose the grass is always greener.

They don't have to SPEND money to get sex

None of the men I've dated ever had to pay for sex. What kind of man has to pay for sex?

So unlike men they can spend their money the way THEY want to and still have a life.

????? How often to do you pay for sex?

On top of this they get to feel superior to all the men who want to sleep with them.

This is nothing compared to real privilege. This is nothing compared to male privilege.

And no matter how rich a woman is, no matter how a woman's status is, she is disrespected because she is a woman.

The truth is even the most beautiful women in the world have low self-esteem. Britney Spears feels ugly and has to be told she is pretty or beautiful all the time. The same is true for Miss Universe or fashion models.

51% of adult American women are married so unless you're suggesting women are prostitutes and make money from sex, equal pay is much more important means of women's solvency.

Show me a Census link where women of any race make more than men of any race. For the same number of hours worked and same level of education. You won't find one.

Sexual capital isn't an advantage because it goes back to income. Men make more money than women.

It's called classism which is as insidious as racism and sexism.

Of course women with money have class advantage over poor men.

But men of all races make more money than women of all races. Just look at any Census data.

There should be no defining masculine and feminine characteristics. Women can be like men and vice versa. Jodie Foster's movie was compared somewhere to The Punisher which I found surprisingly entertaining.

The Punisher (2004)

Tagline: This Is Not Revenge. It's Punishment!

He has a plan... he has an enemy... this Summer... he will execute them both

Jerks make passes at women.

*Gross*

Jodie Foster plays The Punisher in

The Brave One (2007)

Tagline: How many wrongs to make it right?

Plot Outline: A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

Except I'd watch this one (if it were free).

I said you think less of us than dogs. And that is patently obvious if you compare the teen girl suicide thread where discussions of teen boy suicide were shouted down with "This is a woman's blog!" and Donna Darko's blaming this on the patriarchy with the feministing/feministe threads. --Anonymous

For the record, most of that fifteen page thread were men who denied the increase of girls' suicide followed by the expected "What About The Menz?" and I never mentionned feministing or feministe.

Ah, to always be right.

*smacking lips*

raider and Brightstar will say women only like jerks.

Except they themselves are the jerks.

I think AKA meant your histories of not getting laid.

Wow, this is awesome. About five supportive feminist males making other men accountable. Do this on every thread!