jc- you're 24 years old man. Wait until you have experienced life a little. Then, make an opinion of your own...instead of one off the internet articles. What we are saying is from personal experience.
Exactly. Real life has a way of making you say
"Who is this stupid fuck that wrote that article? What planet are they living on?"...Sorry, but my experience also does not fit with this "oppressed" woman idea. My friends are at about a 60% divorce rate right now. Some of them got "fucked" over. Others had a pretty equitable split. Not one divorce I've seen ever "fucked" her over. So, while every divorce may not be a gold mine for the woman, some most definitely are. I have never, ever seen a man hit the gold mine...And as was said by someone earlier, most of men's grievances will have to do with custody, not money, because shockingly, most men are not heartless dead beats for Christ's sake...In fact, most men would kill you if you looked at their kids wrong. I know, not the popular idea. Men are supposed to all be irresponsible dumbasses, like they are portrayed on every TV sitcom...
jc, you are welcome to have any opinion you want. I wouldn't base them on that particular article though. These "gender gap" studies have mostly been proven fraudulent...Just one example for discussion is the contention that women don't have equal access to education...Total bullshit...There is a growing majority of women on every college campus of consequence in this country. Men are an ever shrinking minority on campus...Those are numbers that are hard to manipulate, just count them. The reality doesn't support the "access to education" arguements. They are "accessing" at a much higher rate than men...This ain't the '60's and '70's anymore bro...Don't let those decades old retreads form your opinion for you. They have not managed to move themselves beyond 1975...Secondly, wage discrepancies have so many factors involved that just staring at numbers doesn't tell you the whole story...A women who takes off 3 or 4 years from the workforce to raise a baby, of course is going to make less. Women also tend to work less hours, want much more flexibility in their schedules etc, etc. and will take lower paying jobs to get these other benefits...You will likely want to say
"this is because they are forced to because of family obligations"...But there is no consideration that maybe they
want to take care of these family obligations and they are making a
choice to do so? And in fact find that to be very fulfilling? Am I a sexist to say that most women's aspirations include having a child? If I were to be accused of that I would have to ask; Do you know any women for Christ's sake? A stay at home mom is ridiculed by your feminist friends, jc. Do you only speak for the women who choose work over family? Their choice isn't a "legitimate" one to most feminists...Your opinion is based on faulty information, period. I have researched this stuff as well. I can find a study that says anything I want it to. Real life tells me the truth though...And I know that women do not make less than I make for the same job. And they have never made less in any job I've ever held. Women I know have also tended to turn down promotions because they do not want the added responsibility and time obligations...I also know that many women do what they can to get more time off to do what they feel is a more important job; raise their children. Not because they hate it, but because they love it...These real life facts are not represented in your article. Does that mean I've just happened to run into the only women in America who feel this way? I guess it's possible, but not very likely...
