Conservative Subterfuge

Posted on 24 September 2008. Filed under: feminism, politics | Tags: , , , , , |

Vote Republican if you want equal pay, suggests the Wall Street Journal. Why? The wage gap is smaller when Republicans are president. Not counting too far back, of course.
Here are the problems with this line of thought:

Saying the wage gap is smaller is like saying, Well, he didn’t hit you very hard.
The whole idea that [...]

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The Gender Wage Gap is REAL

Posted on 19 September 2008. Filed under: feminism, politics | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Now that Obama has put out an ad on the gender wage gap, the usual roster of impregnably self-satisfied misogynists has been crawling out of the woodwork to bat for the ludicrous idea that the wage gap is like, totally OK, because men deserve higher pay. Evidently the truth just has to be repeated ad [...]

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