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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
that in women's minds there is no base truth or reality.
That it is all a continuum based on the delusion that whatever they think, no matter how untrue at the core, MUST be right.
A mental illness if I ever heard of one.
what you can get away with.
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.
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.
Here are some links concerning women and the supposed wage gap. I was hoping Robert Franklin would chime in, as he is very articulate on this subject, but here are some links. Women right now have the option to work or not, to be a house wife or not. Men do not have this option. It is changing slowly, but men are still largely judged on their ability to provide for their family. Women judge men on how much they are worth and how much power they wield, feminism be damned. A woman's so called "sexual capital" is very valuable. It is a huge source of power when it comes to finding a romantic partner and controlling a relationship, and when Brightstar is mentioning paying for sex, I'm assuming he means in the sense that guys have to buy drinks, pay for dinner, wine and dine and "woo" women, give gifts, have a nice car and decent apartment, job, etc...not pay for sex as in literally paying for a prostitute.
So if women have the advantage when it comes to romance due to their "sexual capital", have the advantage when it comes to anything having to do with domestic issues and the family; in court and in life. Have the advantage when it comes to education; the ratio of men and women in college as well as the "boy crisis". Have the advantage when it comes to the criminal justice system handing out justice. Have the advantage when it comes to any kind of domestic violence dispute, or situation involving perceived sexual misconduct, and the just plain ubiquitous cultural perception that men are inherently bad or worthless and women are inherently better, saturating the media these days. Whether its countless you go girl pop songs about women dissing lame ass guys, or the television shows listed in this article, or the endless portrayal of dads being either ineffectual or deadbeats. And if women no longer have a disadvantage in the workplace, well then who has it better these days, really?
Here are the links concerning the wage gap and women in the workplace.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=797045&page=1
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba392/
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/21/commentary/everyday/sahadi/
just google "wage gap" and you will find your own links.
It should be noted that now that women have a little power that they try to act like men vs. the other way around. If I want to look at a man I will watch something with men in it. If I want to see some androganous hermaphrodite I will watch the Oxygen channel.
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.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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