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Actually, as a woman, I made 10K a year MORE than the MAN who had my job before me (at the last company I worked for)
Was it because I was a woman or that I was just more qualified than he was? Maybe they just hate men. Maybe some of these women who cry about making less than the men need to look at their job history. You can't very well take 5 years out of the job market to play mommy and expect to make the same amount of money as a man that never did. There is a book I read about just that... "The Feminine Mistake" by (gasp... a woman) Leslie Bennetts that discusses how some woman have unrealistic ideas about wages and promotions. She also discusses how many of these studies that claim that woman make less than men in certain sectors DO NOT take into consideration how much time women take off work to raise families. |
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Being a parent to an infant isn't real? |
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As a white male I can understand what Swoop is saying. It is fashionable to hate on white men. It's fashionable to leave them out of legislation and debates. There is a message being sent to us from many different mediums that we are in a mess because of white men or that white men have stolen something that belongs to underrepresented groups. However, you don't see these same arguments made when talking about elementary school teachers, NBA basketball players, cooks at specialty food locations etc. The message being sent out is a big joke, I'm surprised you don't see it. However, I think it's more likely you choose to ignore it. edit: If a white man becomes a CEO you get language like "figures, who does he know" or "how can we replace this white guy and get a female or a black man running this place?". When a woman or black man succeeds you better stop the presses because "how in the world did he/she overcome the odds???" In the end, I don't think we're helping anybody. |
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Keep chuggin that koolaid bro. |
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What koolaid would I be chugging? |
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Such as legislation dealing with hate crimes. Many times white males are silenced in these style of debates because "you wouldn't understand, you're a white male". As for your CEO's comment, you missed the point. It's about how we failed as a society because "yet another white male is taking over". It's a social attitude that will lead to white males being black listed on some level. Instead of staying the path and treating everybody equal (which will be better in the long-term) we try to take shortcuts to give other groups an advantage when going for the interviews. It's real, it will be long lasting and your sarcasm isn't going to change it. I don't think it's a problem when anybody succeeds and I certainly don't give them credit for their success because of their race or gender, however, many people in this country focus on it at an exhausting rate. Were you around this January? Did you turn on the news? It wasn't about a new President with great new ideas, it was "finally, not a white man". |
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and obama got attacked for being black. big deal. theres always going to be dumbassess commiting acts of douchebaggery. that doesnt' mean its the majority or that they control the government from a shadowy conspiracy. grow up dude. |
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It was: NOT Bush and he's black too so we can feel good about ourselves...squeal.
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Oh cmon, you know it was more than that. |
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But, for those women who take years out of the work force, don't expect to come waltzing back in making the same that I do when I have worked and raised a family for the last five years. For every choice you make in life there are consequences. YOU choose to take 5 years off... YOU choose to make less money when returning. |
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There is no shadowy conspiracy, there is a culture that is gender biased. What are the male equivalent insults of bitch, slut or whore? How many woman catholic priests have you met ? Women haven't even been able to vote for as long as black men have in this country and you think there is no bias against women? |
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