Modern "Man"
In modern society, with our obsession toward equal rights, a group that has in recent years been viewed as the 'oppressor' has in fact been significantly marginalized. That group is of course, men.
At what point did it become a woman's job to define masculinity? A man who tried to define what is and is not feminine would be drawn and quartered! Why are women who commit this offense not subjected to the same scrutiny and rage as men who do the same thing?
Wages...if one wishes to compare salaries for women as a whole versus salaries for men as a whole, you'll see differences based on what jobs women choose. A significant percentage of women choose jobs in fields that simply tend to pay less. Additionally, many of the high paying jobs in the world are sales jobs, and while this may result from socialization, the woman to man ratio in sales organizations tends to be low. Furthermore, women who make the same sacrifices as men generally make about the same amount of money as men. Rather than a difference of twenty-five cents on the dollar, it's closer to four cents on the dollar, and though it's terrible that there is any difference, it's significantly less when the same sacrifice is made. Isn't that what a wage is? I exercise my skill and sacrifice my time and freedom and in return am given money, right? What successful men sacrifice is simple: they sacrifice weekends with their family, spend many late nights at work, work while ill, work through vacations, take crappy jobs that involve distasteful, dangerous, or difficult physical labor, and otherwise sacrifice anything for the almighty buck. When women are confronted with this option for 'equality', they grow angry and want to have the same money without the same sacrifices.
That brings us to the truth of what the feminists call 'equality.'
A goodly number of women and self professed feminists do not want equality. They want preference. They want men to hold the door for women, to give them ladies first access, and want the same jobs, at the same pay, with less sacrifice for it. They want to be rude to men, but want courtesy in return. They want to be allowed to slap or hit men when frustrated with them, but a similarly violent response to her slap is reprehensible, because it's against a female. Somehow violence against men isn't as bad as violence against women.
Do you notice a bit of a self-serving dichotomy? I do.
I believe in equality, but there is no room for this kind of manure in the realm of equality. Equality means that there is equal opportunity for equal effort. It means that there is equal treatment in response to equal criteria.
Bartleby
At what point did it become a woman's job to define masculinity? A man who tried to define what is and is not feminine would be drawn and quartered! Why are women who commit this offense not subjected to the same scrutiny and rage as men who do the same thing?
Wages...if one wishes to compare salaries for women as a whole versus salaries for men as a whole, you'll see differences based on what jobs women choose. A significant percentage of women choose jobs in fields that simply tend to pay less. Additionally, many of the high paying jobs in the world are sales jobs, and while this may result from socialization, the woman to man ratio in sales organizations tends to be low. Furthermore, women who make the same sacrifices as men generally make about the same amount of money as men. Rather than a difference of twenty-five cents on the dollar, it's closer to four cents on the dollar, and though it's terrible that there is any difference, it's significantly less when the same sacrifice is made. Isn't that what a wage is? I exercise my skill and sacrifice my time and freedom and in return am given money, right? What successful men sacrifice is simple: they sacrifice weekends with their family, spend many late nights at work, work while ill, work through vacations, take crappy jobs that involve distasteful, dangerous, or difficult physical labor, and otherwise sacrifice anything for the almighty buck. When women are confronted with this option for 'equality', they grow angry and want to have the same money without the same sacrifices.
That brings us to the truth of what the feminists call 'equality.'
A goodly number of women and self professed feminists do not want equality. They want preference. They want men to hold the door for women, to give them ladies first access, and want the same jobs, at the same pay, with less sacrifice for it. They want to be rude to men, but want courtesy in return. They want to be allowed to slap or hit men when frustrated with them, but a similarly violent response to her slap is reprehensible, because it's against a female. Somehow violence against men isn't as bad as violence against women.
Do you notice a bit of a self-serving dichotomy? I do.
I believe in equality, but there is no room for this kind of manure in the realm of equality. Equality means that there is equal opportunity for equal effort. It means that there is equal treatment in response to equal criteria.
Bartleby
posted by Bartleby at 10:51 AM
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