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oh damn, u could have told me before I went out and bought a pair!
Do you think the gender pay difference in higher paid jobs, and the old boy's network that runs it, is something that perhaps keeps women out of that area?
Legba, I think it keeps out anyone who isn’t an “old boy”. my point is this- There are women in positions of power- there are no poor people in positions of power, male or female.
And are you sure that violence against women isn't shown/condoned in the media? What about lad's mags? Isn't the obviously cartoonish violence shown in the ad there as if to say "haha, as if women would hit a man...ridiculous! Unless of course she had bought our new car and wnated it for herself!"
Frankly no. and that is anyway, just one example. I am tired of ads that are saying no man on earth can cook/change a nappy/put on a washing machine without making a monumental f*ck-up. I find it incredibly patronising, and I no longer watch adverts. Which is probably wise.
I didn’t say violence against women wasn’t potrayed in the media. But I think that violence on that scale against a woman would not be shown on pre-watershed television. Personally I found that ad shocking, and not-at-all cartoonish. And even if it was cartoonish, that doesn’t mean much to me. Cartoon violence isn’t funny, unless it’s in a cartoon, in my opinion. Anymore than a ‘cartoonish’ rape would be acceptable. Seeing a man thrown thru a window on the fifth floor is supposed to make me want buy a car?
All Men: $37,339 (100%)
All Women: $27,355 (73%)
I think that the wage gap is commonly regarded as fact. It's also a fact that it's unfair and archaic.
I didn’t say there wasn’t a wage gap, Mattvara. My point is that the averages are skewed by pay at the high end, not the low end of the scale. Which I feel is proportionally a small minority of workers, and not representative. And in my opinion ALL of these people are overpaid, both men and women. In my own experience, there isn’t a pay gap in blue-collar jobs. But then who cares about the oiks?
Capitalism basically overvalues some work and undervalues other work. The biggest pay gap is between rich and poor. I mean, I think Jo Whiley is paid something like £50K a year less than Chris Moyles, even tho she works the same hours. Which is obviously wrong, especially as he is atrocious, dire, unfunny, and repulsive. However as she does earn around £100K a year, I am more inclined to feel sorry for someone who works on a check-out in a supermarket and earns F- all. I mean, how much dough do u want to sit around yackin an playin yr favourite tunes? With all due respect. and indeed, how much money can one person legitimately earn when there are people who are penniless or homeless? I don't know the answer to that one. that isn't an attack on Jo Whiley, by the way, but on the values that society promotes...
Re transgendered Ken- if Ken did become transgendered (or should that be trans-ken-dered?) they wouldn’t actually have to change anything. I mean, he’s got no willy, so that won’t be a problem. He has feminine features. And as for clothes, I guess he could just borrow some of Barbies. Of course, they might have to be altered slightly. But that would be a nice task for a young girl and her little sewing kit, and good training for when she becomes a wife and has to sew her husband’s buttons onto his waistcoat.
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. That's him on the right.