Letters to the Editor
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Nonsense! The Patriarchy Would Never Allow This!
Please reread the study, I am sure you must have misread it.
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Congratulations
Nothing says "a job well done," like an inheritance or a divorce. I'm glad for all of their 'success.'
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I'd rather have half my stuff
..than all of you.
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Why does Lloyd keep lying about the wage gap?
Lloyd - the wage gap is a feminist fantasy used for fund raising.
Do YOU earn 67 percent of the Male Saloners?
didn't think so.
It's like Warpublicans who keep repeating Saddam is bin Laden.
It doesn't make it true, but it might convince the sheep..
bahhhhh bahhhh
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When the top 2 issues
are
1. Inheritance
2. Divorce
It really shows how industrious and efficient women are at building wealth. Well done. Now go find another male victim.
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Female millionaires?
I would imagine that the veddy proper Britons would even today still refer to them as "millionairesses."
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Other people's money
What accounts for the accumulated wealth of male millionaires? How many of them have earned their money versus acquired it from an inheritance (it's less likely that they would become rich due to a divorce settlement?)
As long as we're crunching numbers, I'd like to see how many of these people are actually self-made versus legacy millionaires, then we'd see how financially equal men and women really are...
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Most men, who are wealthy
are self-made.
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As long as
They don't all become shrill wealthy delusional human rights activists like Cherrie Blair, it's ok with me. Swing for the fences, ladies.
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Another day in Trollville
Right on Kitchengirl for this:
"What accounts for the accumulated wealth of male millionaires? How many of them have earned their money versus acquired it from an inheritance (it's less likely that they would become rich due to a divorce settlement?)
"As long as we're crunching numbers, I'd like to see how many of these people are actually self-made versus legacy millionaires, then we'd see how financially equal men and women really are..." How very true. What's not mentioned is that a lot of those men who are supposedly self-made millionaires made it big on the backs of others and through a system of male entitlement that continues today. Many of these women who accumulated wealth through divorce are middle-aged and ran the households for their family and ensured that Mr. Breadwinner had it easy at home while he was climbing his way to the top and beginning to eye his next trophy wife--screw the existing family, right? In other words, they contributed to the success of their spouses. There's no reason why they shouldn't be compensated for their contribution to the success of their husbands.
Thanks to Broadsheet for throwing a bone to the troll regulars. Let's see...we have Ben Dover, RealName, and ガガ ガガ ガガ checking in as usual. I'm waiting on BrightStar65 and Parson Jim.
What's the matter boys? Didn't you turn on your Troll-signal to let Blackhole65 and Poison Jim know it's time to avenge those evil Broadsheet feminists who want to take away YOUR deluded truth, justice, and the American way?
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Troll Food
I didn't comment on Salon for years and years, I generally don't like to after the usenet flamewars taught me a lesson, but I have decided to start primarily because ga ga etc. and the rest of the militant screechy whiney coven of feminist haters need to be spoken up against.
Damn straight this was troll-food, and you can bet the rest of the trollish crowd will show up soon, anything about women and money seems to drive them nuts. When after all it is ultimately a very silly and irrelevant study, a bunch of rich people stay rich, whatever their gender and marital status, geeze, quelle surprise. But it has got women and money in it, I almost suspect Carol put it up to get the Trolls' engines revving.
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To: Anonymous
The reality that most women do generate their wealth from inheritance or divorce. Just because you don't like it does not mean it is factual. The statistics are backed up the Census.
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gloat all you like carol, but it still remains a fact that until there are as many barely passable men getting rich selling their bodies to rich women
as there are equivalent women doing the same with men it remains a logically proven empirically established fact that men need more money, a lot more, than women in order to be socially equal.
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Female trolltrolls
The truth hurts, girls, the truth hurts.....
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Women will control the majority of wealth in the US by 2010
Wow, it looks like men will be in need of financial empowerment in this country soon.
Thanks for the invitation to comment, cranky anonymous feminist.
https://www.allianzlife.com/MediaCenter/PressAllianzStudy.aspx
NEW YORK, NY. - (August 22, 2006) - After decades of escalating education, income and participation in the workplace, women are expected to control 60% of the wealth in the United States by 2010—an unprecedented milestone in the empowerment of women. Yet despite this economic gain, women feel financially insecure and unprepared to handle their growing wealth, with nearly half worrying about becoming a bag lady, according to the new Allianz Women, Money, and Power Study.
The study results also serve as a wake-up call for the financial services industry, which has a long way to go to meet the needs of female financial decision makers. The study found:
* Regardless of the fact that women are more educated, more involved in financial decisions and are controlling more of the wealth than ever before the vast majority (90%) feel somewhat or not at all financially secure.
* Despite this level of insecurity, women say financial security and freedom are 15 to 20 times more important to them than money-related status or respect.
* Along with this financial insecurity is this tremendous fear of losing all their money and becoming a bag lady – about half of women had the “bag lady” fear, and surprisingly, almost half of the wealthier women (those who earned more than $100,000 annually) also felt this way.
* Lack of knowledge is the biggest barrier to women getting more involved in managing household finances – four times as much a barrier as lack of time.
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Wow thanks Parson!
That's one of the most uplifting things I've heard all day... seriously.
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my mom is a female millionaire via divorce...
I've said it before in this forum, and I'll say it again.
SHE EARNED EVERY PENNY being married to my dad!
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You're welcome
You're welcome, Anonymous. Just quit complaining about "oppression" and "discrimination", because clearly, women are not oppressed in America.
To assert otherwise is a lie.
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To Mikes Pace
But what DOES say "a job well done" is two people remaining in a miserable relationship for the rest of their lives out of a need to save face, stay the course, and be able to declare "success"?