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Equal pay: A Secret Lady Plot to Steal Men’s Money and Make them Fight Lions, or Something

Eventually, women won't have to do anything, and men will just carry them everywhere.
Eventually, women won’t have to do anything, and men will just carry them everywhere.

These women clamoring for equal pay — what’s their game? I mean, obviously they don’t want anything as straightforward as equal pay for equal work. What woman wants to work?

Happily, the smart lads in the Men’s Rights subreddit have it all figured out.

HilscherFarms 33 points What's the end game of "equal pay?"  What happens if a feminist's wet dream comes true and the 'pay gap' is closed through legislative fiat, with men working 25% longer hours and never taking a day off just to make the same salary as a woman? Not all men can or ever will drop out, so where does this inverse pendulum fall down and settle at?  I can't see how that works, but it seems like it's going to happen even on this side of the pond with the destabilization of American politics. The SCOTUS, Senate, and Presidency are now probably permanently out of the grasp of one side of the political spectrum and feminism has a heavy dominance of the remaining party. We could be in for another 'era of good feelings' in which those good feelings trample the rights of men even more than they already have.  I don't see how such a state of affairs could even be economically possible, but if it's attempted anyway, what happens? IcarusLived 51 points The end game is to force men into the difficult and dangerous manual labor jobs because they've been discriminated against heavily in education. Then when women are working the easy and safe air-conditioned jobs they will demand that women receive the same pay for the easy jobs as men get for the difficult jobs.  This will effectively transfer men's labor and resources to women without women having to give anything in return. This was the goal of Feminism all along.

Clever girls!

I do feel bad for all the fellas in the Men’s Rights subreddit, none of whom presumably work in air-conditioned offices. They probably all have to wrestle lions for a living, with their bare hands, in coal mines, blindfolded. (Them, not the lions.) It’s kind of amazing they find time to post on the internet at all!

h/t to TheBluePill for pointing me towards this manly wisdom.

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LBT
LBT
11 years ago

RE: Argenti

Unstable Housing! Let’s see if I can hammer out Third Language before bed…

RE: Freemage

Aw, that is awful.

Quackers
Quackers
11 years ago

@Argenti

I wouldn’t know what conclusion to draw. What a terrible thing to happen to the man in his union. I don’t deny these jobs are dangerous but unfortunately there will always be accidents. I fully support women going into these jobs too, I don’t understand why MRAs think we are against it. Last time I saw a woman construction worker I did a happy dance internally. There are women’s construction groups too, this one for example http://www.constructionwomen.org/

The thing is, even for people who don’t have as many options career wise can do a job in retail or fast food…but I suspect a big portion of men go into laborious jobs because they pay more? retail and fast food may be safer but it pays shit and is really boring, plus customers can be rude and sometimes downright abusive.

I don’t know what they want anymore really.They bitch about women being encouraged to go into STEM, but they also complain about women dominating nursing and teaching. I’ve heard them complain about women in firefighting (also dangerous) bottom line is no matter what women do they complain.

freemage
11 years ago

Quackers: Some ‘service’ jobs–maids and other cleaning positions, for instance–are actually very hard on the body. You don’t die in an accident, but by the time you’re 55, your knees, back and wrists are pretty much wrecked. Shortens lifespans considerably.

Argenti Aertheri
Argenti Aertheri
11 years ago

Quackers — point was that despite the risks, and weather, and whatnot, he actually really likes his job. And reddit, but only because they have cats.

MRAs are out of touch idiots in other words.

LBT — no way am I getting to reading it tonight anyways, so sleep!

Zombie Marie
Zombie Marie
11 years ago

::sees title of post::

I knew it!

@Ashley

Yeah, where do these men live? In my area, most of the 18-25 year old men who are slaving away in sweaty factories are the ones who chose not to go college or pursue any other type of work that involves using your brain or effort to get into. These men are not forced into these positions. They chose it.

Um, bwuh? Not everyone can afford college. Everything about this statement is striking me as what-the-fucky, especially “work that involves using your brain or effort to get into” (oh hi, I have a brain that’s perfectly functional, and they aren’t really handing out the low paying jobs atm.) and “they choose it”. Those fools, choosing to not have the money to go to college. Or the time. Or whatever the fucking reason.

Mocking mras is all fine, tossing a bunch of other people under the bus while doing it makes me angry.

Well, Dvärghundspossen said it much better, but I’m still leaving my rant up :/

And, Ashley, I’m glad to see you apologized. that was good. Thank you. .

@guffaw-ferrets

Sorry to hear that your coworkers were being asses 🙁 Hugs if you want them.

@kiwigirl

Honestly, back to lurking again now…

You lurk? But I see you here so often! 😛

@Dvärghundspossen

And…making sausages does not sound like a good job. 🙁

@dustydee

Bleh, I worked in a popcorn… I don’t know if it really qualified as a factory, since it was a pretty small operation, but we’ll call it a production and packing facility. At one point we kept finding weird slime on stuff, and eventually a dead snake fell out of the rafters. We think it had been puking from up in the ceiling because it had eaten mice that had eaten poison.

…ew.

Argenti Aertheri
Argenti Aertheri
11 years ago

That is, instead of whining about what if they someday get married, they should be organizing unions like the local plumbers union (they did everything you’d expect from a good union for the man’s widow)

Kittehserf
11 years ago

I just read dustydeste’s comment about the snake in the rafters (belatedly!) and can only say, thank goodness I only eat virtual popcorn.

OT I found a pic that gives something of the feel of our garden at Home. Ignore the house roof, that’s nothing like ours, but tall hedges and flower beds feature a lot.

Lovely garden

LBT
LBT
11 years ago

RE: Argenti

Sleep is for other people! And tomorrow’s my anniversary; I want all the writing up so I have no distractions from treating hubby like a duke.

Argenti Aertheri
Argenti Aertheri
11 years ago

LBT — do you realize how much data I have? It can wait!

Seriously, somebody checked EVERY political view. I have to redo all my headers. Once excel starts working again that is. I have 20 surveys left, I thought it’d take an hour tops >.<

Argenti Aertheri
Argenti Aertheri
11 years ago

I’m a non-authoritarian authoritarian!!!

Zombie Marie
Zombie Marie
11 years ago

@LBT

RE: Argenti

Sleep is for other people! And tomorrow’s my anniversary; I want all the writing up so I have no distractions from treating hubby like a duke.

Have I already wished you happy anniversary? If not, (well, either way) happy anniversary! 😀 hope you have fun.

Kittehserf
11 years ago

Forgot to wish you and Mac a happy anniversary, Rogan!

You’re treating him like a duke? Good plan. Kinging was a crap job sometimes. 😉

cloudiah
11 years ago

More happy happy for Kittehs and Rogan!

Argenti Aertheri
Argenti Aertheri
11 years ago

Fucking excel fucking…

Happy anniversary LBT!

Kittehserf
11 years ago

Marching band kitties

cannot cope, too much cute, I’m meeeeeowlllltiiiiiing …

LBT
LBT
11 years ago

RE: Argenti

AHAHAHAHA I HAVE TRIUMPHED! And now I’m gonna just… collapse into bed and sleep the sleep of the just.

RE: Zombie Marie

Thank you!

RE: Kittehs

Yes. I’ve had difficulty juggling my time between kids, art, and hubby. Tomorrow will be ALLLLLL hubby.

RE: cloudiah

Wow, that is the most adorable thing I’ve seen in a while. My hubby was hypnotized watching it.

katz
11 years ago

Hey! One of those kitties is on the phone!

cloudiah
11 years ago

I thought that video was adorable too, and now it is my gift to you. 🙂

cloudiah
11 years ago

And do you like my new hat?

Kittehserf
11 years ago

cloudiah has turned into a hoomin! With a hat!

WHAT WILL BUSTER SAY ABOUT THIS I DON’T EVEN

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

Are those flowers on it or fruit?

LBT
LBT
11 years ago

I keep meaning to actually put a real icon up for here. I mean, I’m an artist, it’s not like I’m lacking for pictures of appropriate faces.

It’s just… I’ve gotten so used to the random green pattern, even if it makes me look like a newb!

katz
11 years ago

It is a very fancy hat.

cloudiah
11 years ago

I think it’s flowers. I wouldn’t want to swear to it, because FALSE FLOWER ACCUSATIONS.

Amnesia
Amnesia
11 years ago

@cloudiah
So it’s possible your hat is deflowered?

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