tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16103538.post8917762938721609252..comments2023-06-22T06:46:19.888-07:00Comments on Just another disenfranchised father: One wordJohn Doehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05326982429461344063noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16103538.post-76976536312982231312007-10-08T09:28:00.000-07:002007-10-08T09:28:00.000-07:00John,It may be a lot simpler than that, though. Th...John,<BR/><BR/>It may be a lot simpler than that, though. The system promotes a victimhood-based social arrangement - which is an arrangement perfectly suited for manipulation and oppression. At this point, women are designated victims - that may be all there is to it.Boris Epsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08194890014852776515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16103538.post-90865549058265220652007-08-06T14:14:00.000-07:002007-08-06T14:14:00.000-07:00I suck at math, so I can't comment on the last par...I suck at math, so I can't comment on the last part of this blog. I just want to say that as a regular (female) reader of yours (I even put a link to here from my own page), I have never felt you were misogynistic. I like your articles and agree with a lot of what you have to say; I can even sympathize with some of it. But that last bit with all those percentages went right over my head. I'll have to have my husband read it tonight and see if he can sort it out for me...LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16103538.post-64979333734194385232007-08-04T08:52:00.000-07:002007-08-04T08:52:00.000-07:00I am going to have to side with the first comment ...I am going to have to side with the first comment that this blog post mis-interprets the context of the word "much"<BR/><BR/>Having clicked through and read the article it definitely does seem to be focused on comparing women in affluent regions to those in less affluent ones and not women to men in each area.<BR/><BR/>So it would be appropriate in the context of the original piece to use the word much to describe a drop from 120% to 89% of the national average mens salary. <BR/><BR/>It would be another discussion altogether to talk about the fact that where women are earning more they are earning significantly more - up to 20% more then men. Where as in the areas they are earning less that gap is closing every day and is down to a mere 11% <BR/><BR/>Though I am not a believer in the fact that a pay gap exists between men and women and that it is explained entirely by other factors such as, working hours, experience, education, traveling required, overtime, hazard pay etc...<BR/><BR/>I do believe that both men and women still need to make progress in certain areas of economic value to compete equally with one another.<BR/><BR/>I just don't think that the author of this piece meant to imply that what men earn in areas that women earn more men is not as significant or important as the areas where women earn less then men. It simply was not the context of the piece.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16103538.post-80857564556255402112007-08-03T12:51:00.000-07:002007-08-03T12:51:00.000-07:00My ex makes somethinng like twice what I do. She a...My ex makes somethinng like twice what I do. She always has. Yet there's that assumption that a man will always have more money than a woman, and so it's incumbent on us to give them more.Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02238001380092215123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16103538.post-2845085298809960162007-08-03T12:23:00.000-07:002007-08-03T12:23:00.000-07:00Hmm, Well, I am certainly no apologist. The curren...Hmm, <BR/><BR/>Well, I am certainly no apologist. The current social climate is badly flawed and biased against men and unbelievably cruel and inhumane to fathers. <BR/><BR/>but... <BR/><BR/>The poor quality of the writing of this statement doesn't explicity indicate what the author is comparing the nationwide stats to. <BR/><BR/>ie. If you are comparing the nationwide women's earnings against the earnings of women in Dallas and New York, then it is likely that the earnings are quite reasonably described as much less. Especially, as I understand it, because NY and Dallas are quite affluent areas so the amount that women in these areas make is unavoidably much more than some woman in a low paying job in Skagway, Alaska. <BR/><BR/>The comment is unclear as to whether it is comparing women to women or women to men in the "much less" statement. I read it as likely to be either one. <BR/><BR/>The comparison of womens salaries seems correct to as lower in the article the author explicity states the median salary in Dallas and says it is "although their median wage there, $25,467, was much lower than that of women in New York."<BR/><BR/>Though, who knows, your interpretations is easily as valid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com