Because more is never enough

Darth_Toenail · 2018-04-09T14:27:45+00:00

Or: female comedian tries to be serious, only proves that women aren't funny and should never be taken seriously.

DangZagnut · 2018-04-09T16:14:09+00:00

Wow.

The gender pay gap isn't the half of it: our economy runs on women's unpaid work

Yeah, like opening pickle jars, fixing the car, and shingling the roof?

Killing spiders?

I call it our ‘grossly undervalued domestic product’: the caring, support and childcare women do without seeing a penny. It’s time we recognised it

"I pressed the button on the washing machines today! Money pweeeze!"

I recently delivered the annual Adam Smith lecture in Kirkcaldy, Fife. It was the first time a woman had been trusted to give this economics lecture all by herself.

Well women know how to spend money but they just can't manage to make it on their own.

But with men now making up two-thirds of economics students, all but one of the Nobel prizewinners for economics having been a man and every single British chancellor of the exchequer somehow having been required to be a boy, then finding a woman might have been tricky.

Yeah because those positions require decades of knowledge, and they just don't hand out Nobel prizes to SJWs. Perhaps when you're 75 you'll get your Prize, in 50 years.

By happy coincidence, I chose as the subject of my lecture women’s exclusion from the formal economy.

You mean spending all of men's money? I thought women did 999% of the economic spending?

Never, as it happens, has this been more relevant than now, as the full horror of the gender pay gap is revealed.

The horror certainly has been revealed. Repeatedly.

I have so enjoyed watching the debate unfold. Highlights include accusing women of conflating pay discrimination with the gender pay gap – silly women! – though nobody benefits more from this apparent “confusion” than the companies evading legal action.

You mean like quota hiring? We need to stop that practice immediately.

Better still are those bemoaning the lack of explanatory data, while dogmatically concluding that the gender pay gap has nothing to do with discrimination in hiring or promotion decisions.

Yeah, then why do so many women also debunk it? They must not be the right feminists.

You know stupid feminists, you may want to consider a new cause, like, something about how twine is sexist? Because your "Cause" gets marginalized more and more when you cling to stupid shit that everyone on the planet can see debunked over and over.

These are the three women on this planet whose privilege and adoration of unfettered capitalism leads them to infer that women simply choose to work for less, and guarantees them a slot on every talkshow “in the interest of balance”.

Balance. Reality. Something like that. Debunk the debunkers if they're wrong. crickets

So instead of debunking it, you'll complain about people debunking it. Sign me up!

But the pay gap isn’t the choice of women. It is both a cause and consequence of gender inequality.

You're right, we need to strip women of social welfare entirely, in the name of equality. And end affirmative action, quota hiring, and everything else, in the name of "equality". You're singing my tune sister.

This wonderful community service was set up by a group of local parents in 1987 and provides a lifeline to poor families in the area. In 2016 its Christmas appeal provided food and presents to 300 children. By last year as many as 800 children and families needed its help. When they recently learned that they had lost one of their funding streams, the extraordinary women who work there offered to take a pay cut so that their community wouldn’t suffer.

Good, it's nice to see you pay for your social experiment with your money, because primarily you use men's money. Equality and all.

So you're saying women can't do it on their own, and need help, because they do not understand how money, lifestyle choices, income streams, and personal responsibility work? Got it.

The Cottage is a stark reminder that poverty is gendered.

I agree, let's kick women out of shelters and let the massively majority male homeless have their beds inside during the winter. Equality!

Most of the people it serves are women and children who have been first in the line of fire for austerity.

So a bad lifestyle choice, and poor economic decisions, are a gendered thing? I guess you're right.

Because, as Sophie Walker, leader of the Women’s Equality party, has repeatedly pointed out, “while tax cuts are benefiting men, benefit cuts are harming women”.

Because women are tax holes that never pay into the system? Got it.

Research carried out by the House of Commons library in 2017 revealed that it is women who have borne 86% of the burden of austerity since 2010.

Maybe instead of teaching 72 genders, you could teach how to properly financially plan for these situations?

The brilliant staff who work at the Cottage are overwhelmingly female, no doubt encouraged by an education system that says caring jobs are for women, and the scarcity of flexible working in other sectors.

So women can't operate money correctly, can't financially plan, make poor lifestyle choices, and can't teach? Got it.

The relegation of women in our economy means that these sectors are always undervalued and lower-paid, despite growing demand.

Yeah my washing machine and dishwasher have some simple buttons.

Successive governments have prioritised investment in physical infrastructure (jobs for the boys) while social infrastructure (nurses, for example) is still seen as an expense to be cut.

Because roads are needed? Maybe the problem is, you're too good to do actual work. If I was smart, I'd go into those fields instead of bitching and moaning and waiting for a man to help m'lady.

I hope it makes the guy from No 11 feel like he’s doing something, but the truth is it doesn’t even make economic sense.

Yes lets waste money on the never ending hole of women's entitlements. You sure as fuck can't seem to survive even with them, so lets waste more money on people that should have been thrown into a river.

The Women’s Budget Group has shown that if you invest 2% of GDP in the care sector, you get double the number of jobs compared to the same investment in construction.

Why would I trust a women's budget group, when won't don't understand financial strategies, economics, or useful decisions?

According to Save the Children, 870,000 mothers would return to the workplace if they could afford childcare – reducing out-of-work benefits and increasing the tax base.

Or sit at home demanding more money.

transport connectivity, upgrading motorways. On the whole it is men’s jobs that are seen as an investment.

So go into that field. Oh right, "muh entitlement schemes".

Whatever you do, do not follow the money.

I pride myself on being an equal-opportunity blamer.

So how are women to blame for the situations that they find themselves in? Because they didn't get put there, they made decisions to get there. Stupid ones.

The result is that the redistribution of wealth in this country, and globally, is too often from the poorest women to the richest men.

How if they have no money? You mean these poor women are going up to Bill Gates, handing him 1000 then giving him a blow job?

Eight white men now own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world’s population.

If they were Black or Chinese or Indian would you feel better? Like that will help you precisely how?

Maybe you should teach how money works rather than the horrors of mansplaining and being cat called. Because you don't want women to succeed.

And it is women who are disproportionately represented in the poorest half of humanity.

They're ignorant of how money works. Because you taught them that all men are rapists and other useful tips.

you are a fan of self-interest then you should know that women’s equality is better for everyone.

Well if dragging you down from supremacy to equality will fix it, I'm all for pulling you off the teat and kicking your ass out the door to learn to survive.

Sandi Toksvig is a comedian, author and broadcaster. She is a co-founder of the Women’s Equality party

Proving women don't know shit about money, and remain in $CURRENT_YEAR not funny.

Three-Legged-Fox · 2018-04-09T14:57:29+00:00

This article ticked me off. I could choose practically any paragraph to critique but this one really stood out:

"The Cottage is a stark reminder that poverty is gendered. Most of the people it serves are women and children who have been first in the line of fire for austerity."

Yes. Poor women and children are served. I'm not sure of the statistics in that local area but I'm willing to bet my right testicle that men pay the majority of the taxes and are then told to go fuck themselves when they need help.

hackableyou · 2018-04-09T15:16:14+00:00

If you are going to add in unpaid work women do, to be fair, you have to subtract out money that women spend of their partners’.

grateful-americanblk · 2018-04-09T16:21:19+00:00

Ugh. The Guardian. Could barely read their shyte even back in my blue pill days.

Title	Because more is never enough
Author	Darth_Toenail
Upvotes	1
Comments	7
Date	April 9, 2018 2:25 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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