Hope this isn't a repost but it sums it up nicely.

Demonspawn · 2015-06-15T14:09:00+00:00

Last panel should read: "Well Paid comfortable white collar jobs"

porkchop_d_clown · 2015-06-15T14:23:01+00:00

Blue collar workers don't generally work in an office.

ZombieAlpacaLips · 2015-06-15T14:59:57+00:00

Blue collar = denim work clothes
White collar = button-up dress shirts

brontide · 2015-06-15T14:23:29+00:00

Teaching ( K = 98% Women, K-4 82% Women ) no calls for equality... but, we need more racial diversity!

EDIT:

http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfch0012.pdf

Workplace fatalities 93% men... ( oh, and of the 7% women 21% are homicides and 1/3 of those are their relative or domestic partner )

GetToDaChoppa1 · 2015-06-15T15:26:34+00:00

Keep in mind that African Americans called for equality in almost all of those workplaces.

For instance, please see the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike of 1968.

drummmergeorge · 2015-06-15T14:46:02+00:00

To be fair, no one wants to do anything of those, except the bottom one. No one wants to pick trash up, but people do.

double-happiness · 2015-06-15T15:15:17+00:00

There were actually moves in the EU to give the wives of fishermen a cut of their wages on the basis that they were effectively part of the crew, providing ancillary support to the business in the form of housework, childcare, etc. There's a brief video about it here. (Any more substantive sources welcome, I am struggling to find any relevant articles.) As someone who comes from a part of the world where fishermen have a history of being lost at sea, it makes me pretty angry.

qckpckt · 2015-06-15T15:13:47+00:00

Can anyone provide proof that women don't actively want to do these so-called 'hard' jobs? Or are you assuming that because women don't do them now, they don't want to do them at all?

If you were a women who wanted to be a coal miner or sewage worker, would you not be intimidated by the male dominated environment and therefore less likely to apply? On the other hand, if you were an employer of coal miners, or sewage workers would you be truly open to employing a woman?

Just curious.

OwlSeeYouLater · 2015-06-15T15:04:10+00:00

This isn't a men's rights issue, this is a socioeconomic issue.

Lunatixtheguide · 2015-06-15T15:36:47+00:00

This was at the top of the front page and disappeared ...I'm Confused.

loki-things · 2015-06-15T15:37:40+00:00

I just sent this to my hyper liberal wife from Berkley. I am sure she is going shit a cannon ball over it.

Lunatixtheguide · 2015-06-15T15:07:41+00:00

This is a pic I found....I didn't make it I just thought it was a good share.

TenTypesofBread · 2015-06-15T15:49:04+00:00

This is a tiresome argument.

Why aren't women calling for equality in blue collar jobs? Because poor, uneducated women are already working them. Maybe not in the exact same position or field, but they're still there working.

The blue collar jobs that women are pushing for access to are those with prestige. Firefighters, police, military. Go look up the statistics for those positions. I guarantee you there is a constant push upwards in gender balance.

This post, and those like it, conflate sexism with classism. Everybody is scrambling to the top, and it just so happens that middle class and upper class people have more time on their hands to be feminists or men's rights activists, and play the economics game.

So blue collar, working class people tend to be the most entrenched in gender roles. Is that a surprise? Feminism is about upending institutional sexism, which invariably, for many people, means starting at the top (which is also male dominated).

And this is my final addition here: working class people are less likely to rock the boat, because job security is a much more dire issue in this realm. People take the jobs they can get, or that they're suited for, or that fell into their laps first. BTW Sewage workers were ~15% women before the last recession, and took a disproportionate share of the layoffs in following years. Is that sexism in action or something more complex? Think about it.

phatphace · 2015-06-15T15:45:38+00:00

Oh, does that mean the MRM is going to push for 50% of men as maids, cleaners, social workers, aged and disability care, administrators, sex workers...

You know, all that underpaid and undervalued work in female dominated fields?

Or is this another case of, "Its only hypocrisy if someone I don't like is doing it!"

Well, there's good news. Turns out there are substantive organisations and initiatives to encourage entry and support women in those very jobs:

Women in Mining Network (WIMnet)

Women in Mining

Women's Mining Coalition

Women in Mining

Women of Waste Management (WoWM)

Women in Waste (WinW)

The Women of Waste (WOW)

I'll wait for the MRM to respond in kind with regard to the aforementioned professions.

Ghee_Buttersnaps_ · 2015-06-15T15:41:19+00:00

This picture is incredibly poorly made

LadyVimes · 2015-06-15T16:11:58+00:00

Meanwhile, as if 2011, less than 10% of nurses were male. One of the few jobs I've ever seen where it's assumed that a person is female and uses a clarifier if not, "male nurse". Although, most of us agree that we need more men in field and on the floors.

MaybeImBored · 2015-06-15T16:13:06+00:00

Ok, so I'm on a roll telling all and posting where I want while I wait for voat to come back from DDoS attack.

I don't think you can summarize this in a meme like that but I have some insider knowledge wrt the US Army and females. Something that never, ever gets talked about is how often females in the military (I'm assuming all branches but my specific experience is with the Army) are deployed over there, somewhere nobody in their right minds wants to be, have an affair with someone they meet over there and end up pregnant. Once they're pregnant guess what. They come home to the states, but the man that fathered the child stays behind.

It's a huge source of contention for old school army dudes. But I don't think I've ever once seen it discussed publicly. I've only ever heard of it from the females that I know that have experienced it.

tiffanydisasterxoxo · 2015-06-15T14:50:02+00:00

So women are applying to those other jobs and getting their applications thrown away because they are women?

HarryPeckerCrabbe · 2015-06-15T14:49:55+00:00

Feminism is a political action movement to advocate benefits for, and one-sided adjustments in the traditional social contract in favor of, its constituents, to the detriment of others in society. Often, this cause is advanced by employing 'statistics' that are knowingly false or present a misleading view of reality, all the while employing ad hominem attacks against those who object. All's fair when you are a victim.

Of course they are not going to call for quotas in the ditch digging business like they are for corporate board memberships: that would actually put their constituents at risk for death, dismemberment and shortened life expectancy (not to mention a shit existence).

Welcome to AmeriKa.

Blutarg · 2015-06-15T14:15:33+00:00

It sure does!

JeremyArroyo · 2015-06-15T15:39:03+00:00

Lol women

2015-06-15T15:10:04+00:00

I'm still debating on whether or not the garbage woman that comes with the truck occasionally is actually a woman

Title	Hope this isn't a repost but it sums it up nicely.
Author	Lunatixtheguide
Upvotes	1007
Comments	150
Date	June 15, 2015 1:51 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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