Wisconsin Republican says gender discrimination in the workplace is a myth. Some things do snark themselves, don’t they?
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Wisconsin Republican says gender discrimination in the workplace is a myth. Some things do snark themselves, don’t they?
Oh, Republicans in WI are ‘mything’ thomething all right – but women being underpaid ain’t one of ’em.
It’s a fact!
What they ‘mything,’ is that women ARE equally paid.
And quick look at statistics of pay in the workplace would prove that.
But, facts are like Kryptonite to Superman.
‘Stupidman’ hates facts. ‘Stupidman’ knows what feels right!
The WI legislature had better hurry and pass “A Dollar a Vote” bill, and let the Koch Brothers money buy the recall election for their little puke, ‘Sly-Walker.’
I had a few “mythical” experiences in the workplace, then.
My entire career has been a myth.
Boy, I just read what I wrote above, and it makes no sense.
But, I think you all know what I meant, and that my heart was in the right place – even if my brain and fingers acted like they were two six-packs into a case – I WISH!!!
To make up for my (unexpected?) incoherence, here’s the always coherent Paul Krugman, in a none too subtle take-down of some Op-ed columnists – including, one suspects, his cohorts at the NY Time.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/on-ryan-apologists/
I swear, Krugman must lock the door of his office on the days Bobo’s, Friedman’s, and Douthat’s, columns come out.
Either that, or he’s got The Marx Brothers on an endless loop, so if anyone asks him ‘what’s so funny?’, he can point at Groucho, Harpo, and Chico, on the TV, and not the “Three Amigo’s” columns in the paper.
Why do Republicans think that shooting themselves in the foot multiple times is a great strategy for winning a marathon?
Makes no sense. And this puzzled me quite a bit, because even complete lunatics operate in accordance with some kind of internal sequencing that makes sense–albeit in a weird way–to them.
But why run on a promise to restore jobs and then, once in office, devote all your energies to dismantling women’s reproductive rights? WTF were they thinking? And that’s where I had my epiphany: the war on women IS their jobs bill–not to mention the way to take “their” country back
Works like this: by eliminating women’s control over reproduction issues, more women will become pregnant and give birth; consequently, fewer employers will consider training them for higher positions, because women will be unpredictable employees. Therefore, greater employment and training opportunities will go exclusively to men. In addition, by reducing or entirely eliminating support for children of single mothers, women will have to, of necessity, find some man to marry. And, once married, the more children she has, the less able she will be to work outside the home.
The less independent women become, the more they must rely on their husbands for financial support, thus returning men to their original roles as head of household and sole breadwinner. Women– ambulatory incubators–will be returned to their traditional roles as homemakers. Children will be home or privately schooled. And life will be beautiful all day long.
Okay, okay, so maybe my epiphany is only an apostrophe. But it’s all I can think of to make sense of what appears to be a political party gone mad.
Anybody see Rachel Maddow’s expose of the way the Walkerites have put all their bills onto emergency passage effect dither Thursday or Friday night? They are claiming 2/3 vote to override 120 day delay otherwise effective on all new legislation, wile obviously they are not getting the 2/3 they claim to see. And where have the Wisconsin Dems been all this time? All this stuff has been patently illegal. Can you get an injunction against the ruling party for illegal procedures/constitutional violations?
So sorry: either, not dither, in above.
Gulag, I totally understood your first comment. And its first line is priceless:
Republicans in WI are ‘mything’ thomething all right.
Boy, do I hope after the recall election they’re mything their preciouth Thcotty.
muldoon,
That makes as much sense as anything.
In the mid-eighties a flier came across my desk advertising job openings in the state government with the interesting ‘attachment’ that the disabled, minorities and women should apply. Anger, disbelief, surprise were my initial reactions. As I thought about it (and my interesting reaction) I realized that since I was not a minority, I must be, somehow, disabled.
So that is my status in America. Not only do I pay more for health insurance due to my pre-existing condition, I can bear children, unlike American males whose pre-existing anatomical condition makes them pre-disposed to prostate cancer apparently are not ‘disabled’ by their pre-existing condition.
In fact, my pre-existing condition is simply being a female. I am obviously a lesser human being, and thus inferior to males and thus only entitled to the scraps that fall from the table at which men sit.
I won a gender discrimination suit last year. Must have been a misunderstanding