Men pay more

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."

Either media liberals/leftists are startlingly stupid, or they think the general public is.

"No one ever lost a dime underestimating the intelligence of the average American" ......... Henry L. Mencken

Well, it's a bit of both. The 75cents/male$ propaganda of course compares all male wages IN AGGREGATE to all female wages IN AGGREGATE. Well, we men IN AGGREGATE do different work requiring more skill,risk, physical endurance, and training/investment; We do it longer and more consistently over a career(i.e. no time out for being subsidized by a spouse for the truly rewarding privilege of raising one's kids); ........... While a liberal might be naive/stupid/mathematically impaired and easily mislead about all this, a true Leftist (especially the trained variety like Glorias Steinem and Allred) regards the '79 cents per male dollar' scam as effective propaganda, through repetition. And Leftists tend to regard with amused contempt the Conservative tendency to see all this as an earnest debate, where facts and reasoning matter. ...... There's an Anti-Male Feminist Agenda to be carried out and The Sisterhood wants to win.

Two sides can play at that game.

I have quite a few female medical colleagues, and even some corporate female friends, whose husbands have taken advantage of their wives high incomes to take the "Mr. Mom Track" and drop out of the rat race.

Some of those men have taken their chosen role seriously and are still happily married but many took advantage of the situation and found themselves at the wrong end of divorce papers.

Either way, when those men try to re-enter the rat race, their earning potential is far lower than the earning potential of those of us, both male and female, that showed up for the rat race day in and day out.

Maybe we need to highlight the plight of those poor male "victims". We need to educate the public about the "Income Gap" suffered by, as the Brits call them:

"Lads that Lunch".

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