The following article by Milo Yiannopoulos comes from Breitbart.com
THERE’S NO ‘GENDER PAY GAP’, BUT HERE ARE 11 REASONS WHY THERE SHOULD BE
THERE’S NO ‘GENDER PAY GAP’, BUT HERE ARE 11 REASONS WHY THERE SHOULD BE
Breitbart Non-Syndicated
by MILO YIANNOPOULOS
The “gender pay gap” is one of the most persistent myths put
about by feminists and social justice warriors. It has beencomprehensively debunked: in the
UK and US, women in their 30s are actually paid more than men for the same work.
But it’s still repeated endlessly by journalists, activists and
even presidents. Even though it’s not true, should it be? Is there an argument
that we ought to pay women less?
Some people think there is a case for purposefully remunerating
women less generously. They say it’s like any financial incentive: designed to
nudge people into happier and more productive lifestyles. With
the rise of the comically
absurd #GiveWomenYourMoney hashtag on
Twitter, I thought the idea deserved closer inspection.
Supporters of what I am sure will come to be called
#PayWomenLess correctly point to social incentives built into the tax
systems of most western countries designed to encourage, or discourage, certain
life choices – such as tax breaks for married couples. They say: “If it’s being
done already anyway, why can’t we make the case for our vision of the good life?”
A variety
of statistics and scientific observations, some of them quite compelling, are
used to make the case that incentivising women to stay home by
introducing a gender pay gap is better for everyone in the long run. Here
are a few arguments I’ve come across for reversing pay equality.
1. Women like it
Why do women get a
kick out of bagging a man who earns a lot more than they do? Because
it frees them up to focus on the home, on children and on other hobbies. Women
usually strive for a more balanced life than men, which is why they work fewer
hours, take longer holidays and earn less for their companies, so being given
the freedom to raise a family is a chance most women would jump at.
2. Men pay more throughout relationships
From that
first date to who pays the most off the mortgage to the shared American
Express, men pay more throughout their relationships. Shouldn’t pay packets
recognise the fact?
3. Actually, men pay more for everything
The
so-called “Pole Tax” is something all men have to live with. Men pay more, not
only for insurance. In the US, men pay nearly 60 per cent more into
Medicare and other state medical benefits programmes despite women using
services more.
Women’s
insurance premiums used to be higher to reflect their higher usage of
resources, but that was outlawed by Obamacare, so whether using public or
private healthcare, men now subsidise women significantly when it comes to
health.
Men pay far more into retirement and pension plans but die
earlier than women, so they subsidise the fairer sex there, too. (On average
American women live 4.8 years longer than men.)
When you
factor in higher educational costs and all the other financial penalties
for having a penis, it can be over 10 per cent more expensive to be a man.
4. Men need to save for ‘divorce rape’
It’s a silly name, but a real problem: when
marriage breaks down, it’s men who get taken to the cleaners. Their wealth,
reputations and access to their children are all on the line. Women can walk
away with a fortune, having in many cases done very little to contribute to
savings or equity in the family home. Child support payments can be crippling.
5. It’s insurance against unfair criminal
sentences
Here’s a male
privilege men could learn to do without: controlling for all relevant
variables, men receive 63 per cent longer sentences for the same crimes as
women. Women are twice as likely to avoid incarceration when convicted. If
we are sending men to prison more frequently and for longer periods of time,
its only right they have an economic edge to pay for lawyers… and other prison
necessities, like soap on a rope.
97.1 per
cent of death penalty executions take male lives even though women commit 10 per cent of
murders. Actually they might be responsible for more, but women often use
methods like poison that can be difficult or impossible to trace after the fact
and leave less evidence at the scene.
6. Women refuse to do the nasty jobs
Out of
college, on of the the top-paying fields is petroleum engineer. But women
stubbornly refuse to apply for highly paid but grubby jobs. Why all this
focus on the software industry and “women in tech”? Don’t we need more female
coal miners, lumberjacks, truck drivers (not you, Rosie O’Donnell!),
slaughterhouse operatives and steeplejacks?
“I learned
programmable logic controller development in a slaughtering and packing
facilities too,” says one critic. “Women want IT jobs, start there!”
7. Men stick with their jobs
and earn more for their companies
Men are
more likely to stick with their careers and be a long-term benefit to their
companies. Men on average make more money for the companies they work for, they
take shorter holidays and they work much longer hours.
8. Men are constantly discovering new and
imaginative ways to die at work
Mentally disabled and physically challenged men can be put on
the front line, but women aren’t, so even though the Armed Forces is 15 per
cent female, 97 per cent of combat deaths and casualties since the Gulf War
have been male. And men make up pretty much all the workplace deaths back
home, too: at least
93 per cent of workplace deaths are male.
9. … and at home
79 per cent of suicides are men. No one knows why and no one
seems particularly keen to find out, but male
suicide is four times higher than
female. It is a national scandal in many western countries. 83 men kill
themselves every day in the United States; that’s 30,000 a year. Why not use
the money saved on lower female wages to subsidise research into this silent
killer?
10. Men need the help, frankly
More women
go to college. By a significant margin. Should men be subsidising all these
state-funded gender studies courses? Most people would say no. 57.7 per cent of
college places now go to women, but even that doesn’t tell the whole story,
because for some reason men are now dropping out of school, at unprecedented
rates. For 4-year college degrees, 1.35 women graduate for every male. Men make
up only 44 per cent of college applicants.
11. Paying women less would incentivise them
to stay home, protecting the nuclear family and reducing single motherhood
Growing
economies understand the importance of the nuclear family. There’s no clamour
for gay marriage in China or India, where governments recognise that families
are the cohesive glue that binds society together. Having a mum and dad at home
is better for children: all the studies agree. The breakdown of the nuclear
family, especially in ethnic minority communities, has been a disaster for
community cohesion and has driven crime rates through the roof.
Now look,
ladies. I’m not saying if you work like a man, take risks like a man,
and negotiate like a man that you’re not due a man’s wage. What I’m saying is:
it’s fairly clear by the numbers that most women don’t, and they make that
choice willingly and consciously.
The #GiveYourMoneyToWomen
crowd want a wage that is inconsistent with the level of actual labour that
they contribute to the workforce (sorry girls, but tweeting isn’t “work”) and
the value they generate in the economy.
There’s no
reason men and women should be paid the same, when they don’t work the same.
Food for thought.
My comment
Another point, when
single mothers work, they often must spend much time at work on the phone
conversing with their children or school officials or whatever. If they were
married and their husband had a decent salary, the mother would be at home, the
children might not have so much trouble in schools, and things might be better
for her family, and the employer could hire instead a real full-time employee,
a man. On the other hand, I have worked
with some single mothers who were better workers, more efficient, than I was,
even with their family interruptions.
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