The Gender Silent Majority

OK, let’s just assume (for the sake of this article) that there IS a pay-gap twixt men and women, and that women are paid less (there is a pay gap, all right and it’s heavily against men, but we won;t go there, just bear with me). Let’s assume the Radical Feminists have it correct and that the Radical Feminist Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is deemed to be needed (it isn’t, but let’s just let that one go)

If I were an employer, and there was a large pay difference twixt men and women, with men out-earning women, I’d fire every single last male I legally could and employ only females.

Why?

To save MONEY on wages / salaries (whatever they are called this week).

Yet, we see that employers stubbornly insist on employing males as well as females.

Why? Because with all of the “ancillaries” (ie: Radical Feminist Special Privileges) women cost the average employer much more than men do.

The Feminist refuse (dishonestly) to count the fact that women get much better treatment than men do, at work. Firstly, as Warren Farrell points out, by the choice of profession: men are mainly obligated to go into the heavy industry (if they can find it) or mining or other hard physical labour environs because they have to earn more in order to attract a wife (or partner). Haven’t seen too many Feminists wanting to cosy up to an unemployed dirt-poor guy, now have you?

Secondly, women mostly go into the “office type” work place. In there, there’s very little physical danger – the average coal miner is in severe danger of the roof falling in on his head, but if the average office worker was in that same danger, they’d shut the place down and declare it unsafe. So, women have the safer of the tasks.

Thirdly, “leave provisions” (what used to be known as holidays) – men, in most Western countries, get MUCH less time off for things like looking after their young children (if at all). Women (in most Western Countries, but not all) get weeks, if not MONTHS of “maternity leave”, sometimes at full pay, sometimes at reduced pay.

Men are lucky to get days, and always at reduced pay.

This differential of holidays-with-pay is huge.

Fourthly, if you look at women are asked to do, and what men are required to do – if there’s heavy lifting, you can expect to see a man (or men) doing most of it. This translates to the sporting world. Most female-only tournaments / matches / games / sporting events take place over a much MUCH shorter period:

Tennis: women play 3 games, men have to play 5 for the same prize money. In tennis, the women get to play in the cooler part of the day, and men get to play whenever the courts are not occupied. One recent example was where two male players were forced to wait until 2 am to START their match, because some of the girls had gone over time, thus pushing everyone else’s times waaay back.

Surfing: ever wondered why the girls seem to finish several days before the guys do?

And the list goes on and on.

This is called “special privilege” to anyone else, to the Radical Feminist, it’s called “equality”.

But work out the pay-scales. If those female tennis players get paid the same for doing 3 matches instead of the 5 the guys have to do, the female tennis players earn (per match) 15% more than the men.

If maternity leave was paid out in a lump sum, the women would be miles ahead of the men, simply because the women get much much more maternity leave than the guys get the equivalent of.

All this costs employers dearly. Yet the clueless elitist Radical Feminists think this Special Privilege is equality. The rest of us disagree.

Humor us, Amy, rediculous or not. And while you’re at it, name some employers who intentionally pay women less for the same job.

More regarding Single Dads outing of Eve Ensler ideas Abortion is not primarily women getting them because a man forced them to. Just the opposite:

As proof of male irresponsibility, people like to cite Carol Gilligan’s famous study, In a Different Voice, which found that in one-third of cases, the father influenced the woman’s decision to get the abortion.

But citing this and similar studies reverses the argument. If the decision to get an abortion rests with the father one-third of the time, then clearly, the woman has made the decision in the other two- thirds of the cases.

But even Gilligan’s one-third figure is suspect. A few years ago, Arthur Shostak and Gary McLouth interviewed 1,000 fathers of aborted children. Their book, Men and Abortion: Lessons, Losses, and Love reveals that only 4% of the women had been opposed to getting the abortion in the first place.

So the myth that women get an abortion because of coercion by marauding sexual predators is an urban legend that serves to shield us from one simple fact: abortion is by and large a female-dominated decision.

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@SingleDad:
You’ve hit upon a truly dark, unspeakable truth—and a historic one.

What will happen to a nation that indulges its females at the cost of running up an economy-crushing debt owed to foreigners when those of its historically most productive sex are about to retire (boomers) or have begun to slack off in the harness (post-boomers)?

This is the dumbest article I have ever read – are you really going to say that the Lilly Ledbetter Act was radical feminism?

You really don’t think there’s a pay gap? Seriously?

Too ridiculous to even respond to.

“The first bill signed by the President (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act) was part of the larger radical feminist campaign to eliminate the purported gender pay gap”

In reality, when Obama was a senator, there was a pay gap….in his own office. He paid his female staff less than he did the men. I do not think there is anything that he has not proven to be a hypocrite in.