Shocking development: Feminists promote double standards.

There's a reason why the expression "have their cake and eat it, too" is attributed to a woman.

It amazes me that people argue over all of this crap.
I guess the government, media, and corporations are really doing a good job of keeping people fighting amongst ourselves while they rob us blind.

To be fair, even most liberals don't like feminists. Go on YouTube and you can find some of the most prominent libs/atheists/democrats ranting about the absurdity and societal harm of feminism.

It's truly an issue that often unites people of all ideologies.

To be fair, most people don't realize there are actually different branches of feminism and most all feminists get lumped in with the radical branch of the ideology.

Bra burning, radical feminists arent really representative of most moderate feminists (liberal feminists) that want equality where applicable while recognizing basic social structures. It would be like me lumping all Christians with Westboro Baptists or all African-Americans with Black Lives Matters.

People need to bitch about groups pandering to a small fraction of those complaining instead of throwing out blanket accusations.

My biggest problem with mainstream feminism is the completely debunked yet still ubiquitously believed claim that women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes (or whatever the ratio is now). It's just a blatant falsehood said so many times hats it become true.

Women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes ONLY if you average out the salaries of all women and all men and compare them. The problem is that fewer adult women work, women are represented far more in lower paying career fields and women work fewer hours.

If you take the comparison career by career and compare men/women, the difference is like half a cent. Female lawyers generally make just as much as male lawyers, female doctors make as much as make doctors, etc. The difference is that there are far more male doctors than female doctors, while teaching and nursing and secretarial work are dominated by women. Additionally, women tend to sacrifice upward career mobility for family desires. It's much harder to become a CEO if you're taking off months at a time every several years in your 20s and 30s.

The gender pay-discrepancy malarkey has been debunked for quite some time now, for sure.

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What the frick are you talking about? That is an idiomatic proverb, not a quote. Are you referring to the (wrongly attributed to Marie-Antoinette) quote of "Let them eat cake?" This board is hilarious sometimes.

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i was wondering about that too. he made a horribly pathetic attempt at making a point.