I was all in for the joke as well, but just couldn't resist the urge to reply.
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Yes its been proven the average female wage is lower than the average male wage, however its also been proven that women choose to go into lower paying fields of work than men.
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I am a teacher, and most of my male colleaques have EXACTLY the same amount of qualifications as me and they get paid more. I probably did way better than them in high school and in university but they get paid more. Whenever I question this I get told that they are a safer bet as an employee because they aren't going to have children, that's why they get paid more. I tell my employer that I do not plan of having children anytime soon. They tell me that they can't prove that. So I get paid less. JUST FOR HAVING A ****ING UTERUS.
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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
As for constantly being patronized and so on, theres plenty of media out there that portrays women as being the more powerful of the sexes. There has been such media in ever increasing quantities since the 60's, and its not going to stop growing now. Hell, there are women produing porn for female audiences. I'd say you don't GET a more male dominated field than that, and the woman in question is the reciever of much success.
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Each day observing the media I could probably point out over 10 instances where women are represented as subordinate to men, and probably about 2 that are vice versa. And please don't use PORN as an argument about female representation?!
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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
Sexual assault? Again, a valid point from your perspective and another of those facts that gets trotted out at every showing of this discussion. Its true. Women are more likely to be sexually assaulted than men. But then...
Theres also the other side of the statistics coin. Women are more likely to have higher grades than men in schools. Women are more able to initiate a relationship. Lots of little tidbits of information that add up to basically bring every argument a balancing argument.
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Okay so getting higher grades than men and being intimate in a relationship make up FOR BEING SEXUALLY ABUSED AND RAPED?!
As I said, I don't think women are better than men AT ALL, I'm just saying that women still do not have equal rights or opportunities in society. I could go on and on about how wrong I think you are but this is not the place so I am going to stop arguing. I apologise for the rest of MB members for having the urge to reply to GuitarBizzare's comments and for going incredibly off-topic.