Posted on 11/10/2007 1:45:42 PM PST by DeweyCA
NOW @ SDSU's bake sale charges men more for the same goods
Imagine going to McDonald's and hearing that, because you're a white male, you pay full price for a Big Mac. Meanwhile, the girl behind you pays three-quarters of the total amount for the same thing.
NOW (National Organization for Women) @ SDSU brought that reality to San Diego State yesterday at the Aztec Center by holding a pay equity bake sale. The prices for cookies reflected the difference of pay between genders and races.
"It's just to raise awareness," NOW @ SDSU Co-President Amanda Whitehead said. "A lot of people don't realize that white women make 75 percent of every dollar a white man makes or Hispanic women make 50 percent. It's pretty ridiculous. When they actually have to buy the cookies, it puts it into perspective."
White men, of whom NOW @ SDSU says make the most money of any demographic, were charged a dollar for the same cookie a Hispanic woman would pay 50 cents for. The group broke down the prices for white, Hispanic, black and Asian men and women, using pay scale statistics from NOW and www.payequity.org.
"It's a more unique way of showing the differences without just showing the statistics all the time," NOW @ SDSU Co-President Ashley Frazier said.
This was a creative way for NOW @ SDSU to present students and faculty with the facts, but some people didn't like the way the cookie crumbled.
Finance and statistics senior Adam Hyman passed out free doughnuts to men only after seeing the bake sale, disbelieving in the point NOW @ SDSU was trying to make. "I feel that America isn't anti-minority (or) anti-woman," Hyman said. "(I did this) to prove a point that if a woman were really getting paid 75 percent of what a man is, they could just quit their job and go work for somebody else.
"If this discrimination was real, then a company that only hires women would be better at business."
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
lol.
Senior Adam Hyman passed out free doughnuts to men only after seeing the bake sale, disbelieving in the point NOW was trying to make. “I feel that America isn’t anti-minority (or) anti-woman,” Hyman said.
“I did this to prove a point that if a woman were really getting paid 75 percent of what a man is, they could just quit their job and go work for somebody else.”
...Or start their own business
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I used to do a radio show at this campus.
Its a pure party campus, light on academics and heavy on liquor
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
So, if I went to the bake sale and self-identified as a woman, even though I have a beard, an adams apple and a pe/ I wonder what they would try to charge me for a cookie?????
Their premise seems wrong here. It's the gals that are getting a break (on price). The guy pays more.
I would like to see the sales stats. Did any wimpy white guys actually pay a dollar for a cookie? Did any of the groups demand a free cookie?
Good... they can pay for they own dinner then too.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Their premise seems wrong here. It’s the gals that are getting a break (on price).”
Not if it’s her husband’s money.
I agree it is male bashing. I do not see where these “broads” say anything us men paying more in taxes. We pay more taxes than they do so we should be the one getting the break. Right? HA HA HA
Can these people get any dumber? They are treating us like children.
The more things change the more they stay the same
If an employer could hire a Hispanic woman at half the price of a white man and get the same product of the same quality, why would any employer ever hire any white men? Or am I (almost) the only employed white man?
Well, then, a college educated person should have to pay more than a high-school drop out even if the college educated was a woman and the high-school drop out was a man. Why not have people produce a W2 and then determine the price? Oh, these are college students who don’t work?
They can eat their cookies themselves then...any man that buys one is a total fool.
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