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“A dual spigot for an exterior faucet”: We purchased this item at Home Depot, the shop where men roam to feel at home.
The item was without a sticker. A woman clerk was manning the checkout counter. She and her female colleagues congregated to solve the problem. A man at the back was contacted on the intercom system and asked for a price. Alas, and eventually, another man had to save the day. Not one of the ladies was able to coherently describe the 2-outlet faucet adaptor, for the purpose of pricing the item.
A young man who worked the floor staged an “intervention.” He arrived on the scene, held the thing comfortably in his hands, and intuitively blurted out the description above. It was second nature to him. A minute or so later, we were finally on our way.
No doubt, this youngster’s female coworkers on the Home Depot floor would describe the task they just failed to execute as one demanding “equal pay.”
In reality, this anonymous, symbolic guy is worth much more to his employers than the gals. If his bosses did not fear a class-action lawsuit from his always watchful female coworkers, the man would be paid commensurate with his worth to the company; or his productivity.
Yes, that young man is more productive than his female colleagues in delivering the service that is Home Depot’s stock-in-trade. He saves customers time (and time is money). And much more.
Everywhere you go, men are enabling—and compensating for—female incompetence in work to which women are unsuited.
Everywhere, men are doing double duty, sometimes endangering themselves (as in police work), to give girls the delusions of grandeur they demand. And they do this without question. I guess a guy doing unequal work for equal pay would get fired if he questioned this PC protocol. …
Inveighing against “income disparity between men and women,” House Minority Leader (who should seldom be taken seriously), had said this …
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Gender income disparity is a hypothesis resting on the notion that employers prefer hanging out with dudes to actually making money.
On the other hand, having worked in HR for a while, I can say that it’s refreshing to see a woman seeking employment on merits other than her womanhood. Having worked in corps with and without quotas, I’ll tell you that women tend to attain higher spots on the corporate ladder in quota-free businesses (even if fewer women are hired).
Enabling females in male oriented jobs is the way of our world. I have heard the gripes from cops and soldiers on that very issue. Everyone in our culture has had this and other PC fantasies shoved up our kazoos for so long it is second nature now. Are women capable of performing many difficult jobs? Absolutely. But, just as a man isn’t suited to being a cosmetic consultant women aren’t suited to be paratroopers. I wonder how many men, and women, are going to die because sharing a foxhole with some babe just isn,t the way to fight a war. No matter what the hens cackle on “The View”.
Random thoughts from an inferior male:
womYn… chromosome envy?
“All is vanity” – King Solomon (applies to men also).
Maintenance is a real cost. Low maintenance is a virtue; highly prized in all relationships, business and otherwise.
So how come the guy at Bed Bath & Beyond knows what a duvet is?
Yet another conflict in the social dogma of the levelers; what ever happened from each according to his ability?
In 1984, there were arguments over the doctrine of “comparable worth” – e.g. why should an “educated” librarian with a Masters Degree be earning less than an “uneducated” plumber or electrician?
Supposedly, the government should do something about this sexist “free market” – and that sentiment still abounds within the Obama administration.
My answer is this: its 110 deg outside and your electricity doesn’t work and someone stole all your books – do you call the electrician or the librarian?
Well, one consolation to Pelosi – there is one “industry” where women get paid far more than men and have to perform far less (and much of it is done in her home base in San Francisco) – it starts with the letter P and rhymes with scorn!
A minor but fond memory: one day, riding homeward on the Brooklyn Bridge bike path, I espy a young lady struggling with the wingnut on her front wheel. I dismount, show her how to leave a little slack in the turn, then lock it in. That look of non-feminist gratitude will remain with me forever.
John Gray of Mars and Venus fame explains in his book, “Why Mars and Venus Collide”, an important difference between men’s and women’s brains. It turns out that women have ten times the white matter in their brains. White matter is where random memory occurs. Lest you think this places men at a disadvantage, he says that men have seven times the grey matter. Grey matter is where math, logic, spacial relationship and proportion at dealt with. Many men and women make the mistake of projecting onto the opposite sex their own way of thinking. Men and women think differently whether we realize it or not.
I think women when making decisions being equipped with so much more white matter generally look for a preponderance of apparently similar situations in their memory. Men on the other hand when making decisions since they have so much more grey matter look for general principles for guidance. I’m not sure I’ve got this worked out precisely right or that it is the entire explanation but I think I’m close.
Regardless, men and women have different abilities. I like almost every man I’m sure has had the experience of a woman remembering precisely what I said some time ago and yet demonstrating a complete lack of knowledge of what I meant and demonstrating no sense of proportion about it. I think many women make the mistake of thinking that their good memory means that they have good understanding. Often the opposite is true.
This leads me to conclude a fundamental difference between men and women is that women think they understand men and men know they don’t understand women.