crayoncoloredscarves:

manslator: “I can debunk the wage gap in 2 seconds. If women really were only worth 78 cents to the dollar, every major corporation would employ women in their highest paid positions because it would be more cost effective.” Manslation: I understand neither economics nor patriarchy, but please brace yourself to paste a polite smile on your face that will become increasingly strained and uncomfortable as I expound on both topics for the next hour. So, did you guys just completely forget about the Equal Pay Act of 1963, or did the lizard people make up that story?

Like, I get it pretty much only applies to the States, but c'mon now.

And let’s not forget men usually end up taking more dangerous jobs, thus getting a higher salary. The wage gap is basically just the mean of the salaries of average jobs men take up being compared with the mean for women.

But that’s beside the point, the point is that the States is not a location to be concerned about when it comes to being paid less based on gender, especially when there’s much bigger fish to fry.

Manslation: Things being illegal means they never happen! And if you try, a giant siren goes off so that everyone knows it’s happening—people never try to hide illegal activity! And women aren’t ever discouraged from entering higher-paid, male-dominated fields! And a field becoming dominated by women doesn’t mean that compensation for it plummets! I have no idea how the wage gap is calculated! I reblog things about the Third Person Effect with no sense of irony or inkling that I should start reexamining what I might have uncritically absorbed! No one is capable on focusing on more than one issue at a time, so sit down and shut up and be grateful for what we deign to hand you, if you know what’s good for you! I just got my copy of You’re a Teenage Boy: Congratulations on Inherently Knowing Everything About the Universe, Now Go Out There and Educate a Bunch of Grown-Ass Women with What Your Dad Rants About at Dinner!

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