Article here. After objecting to the double-standard, the author resigns himself after a series of rationalizations. Cognitive dissonance in its fullest glory.
I recall in the 1970s that one of the reasons feminists gave for "allowing" men to continue to pay for sex indirectly through dinner dates was that since women couldn't make as much as men in the same lines of work due to sexism, it made sense for men to pay for dates (ie, sex) since they could and women couldn't. Now that in so many places the script is flipped, a new set of rationalizations is used. The net result, as with the circumcision issue, is set up to be the same: men get the shaft.
Wouldn't it be nice to see an article written by a feminist stating categorically that as long as a woman is making more (in many cases now, much more) than the man she is on a date with, that it should be expected that she pick up the tab? Wouldn't it be nice if it were as prominently displayed as ones like this?
Maybe there's an alternate universe where women pick up the tab for as much as men are expected to here. It'd be nice to visit that universe just for a little while.
