Good news for businesses as RTE announce women are now working for free until the end of the year

Just talking to a friend about the fact we two out of a bunch of women (30s to 50) are the only two full-time workers, rest are part time, 3 days or 4 days, or full time mothers or on disability.

Now this friend is going on long term leave due to a operation. So that just leaves me full time, the others must think im an awful dope!

Cool story bro!

So they like a bit of the old hose do they?

What's a friendship group btw? Is that like a support group for abandoned & wayward friends?

Just for balance, it's exceedingly unlikely that you will be in a situation where you are expected to sacrifice for a woman (unless you have reason to believe otherwise) whereas the pay gap affects every working woman.

There is undoubtedly a more complex picture at work here than straight up discrimination (and I think even the folks raising the issue will acknowledge this), but to dismiss the whole issue on such a fatuous argument is pretty stupid.

A lot of ladies would hate the though of this ever becoming a thing in Ireland. No more coffee and Insta for 2 hours after dropping little Jack and Emily to school.

That depends on the definition of the word "sacrifice" though, doesn't it?

The amount of dirty and dangerous and downright horrible jobs that exist in the world is huge. And the amount of these jobs that women either can't do or simply decide they don't want to do, is also huge.

Men are the ones that have to take up the slack in these jobs, and make the sacrifices for the greater good of society. (that means both men & women btw) Usually without looking for any fanfare or pats on the back. And very often for crap wages too.

So, making it merely about going down in the titanic or saving someone in a fire, is overly simplistic. It is of course, far more complex than that.

But then I was being slightly facetious with those remarks anyway. (in case you hadn't noticed)

Besides, even though you could make a very strong argument for why men actually deserve slightly better average pay than women - based on working all of those 1,000's of dirty/dangerous/unpopular/exhausting jobs that most women don't want to touch with a 10ft barge pole. I wouldn't even bother with that angle, there is really no need.

The gender pay gap has been completely debunked, it's well and truly a myth at this stage.

The only people who are really still pushing this flawed idea, are angry feminists and those limp-wristed white knight type males, who love to show off how thoroughly egalitarian and respectable they are.

It's a game. Just like all the other woke and social justice BS. 

And I'm not saying that to upset women. I love women. But men and women make different choices in life, and I don't really think there is anything wrong with that. I actually think women are better at achieving work life balance in many cases than men. Which is far more important than many people realize.

And they all just happen to be boys or??

Oh, you're anti-woke? There's a huge surprise. If this was 60 years ago you would have been protesting black people being allowed sit on the bus or whatever the anti-woke people were doing at that time.

Living up to your name, eh?

A lazy generic throwaway insult.

Yawn!

Listen, if you don't understand that you are a type, that is unfortunate. A little self-knowledge goes a long way. You are a reactionary - you resent change that does not benefit you personally, and there is a straight line bewteen you and the people who opposed women voting, civil rights in the US, and every other conservative reactionary movement in history.

'Woke' is just a faddish term for 'progressive' (as you will realise if you give it 5 seconds of thought). Your grandchildren will marvel at the stuff you got upset about.

The gender discretionary SPENDING gap needs to be addressed. It is real, people.

Walk in the city centre any weekday and you will see the evidence. Talk to any courier either. Its real.

Dundrum TC, Kildare Village, BT, Mahon take your pick. Throw in Asos, Boohoo and PLT for good measure. Are these temples of spending the bastion of male privilege? Are they fuch! Every one-horse town in the country has a salon of some description also. Plenty of plastered ladies coming out of them, not too many plasterers going in.

The pay gap is down to career choices and time spent at work. The spending gap might just have the similar causes.

Listen, you're not as progressive as you seem to think you are.

You label people as a "type" just because they disagree with your opinion / world view. Lumping people into a box and slapping a label on them is not progressive. You're preaching about equality, but attitudes like that simply create division and discord in society.

Many modern so-called progressives, have these amazing powers of deductive reasoning. You can put 2+2 together in your head, and somehow always manage to come out with the number 666. It's an incredible level of mental gymnastics. But also unfortunately, intellectually lazy.

Yes my friend. Again, we know exactly where you would have been standing when they were trying to give civil rights to black people. Not on the side of the progressives you despise.

Those guys back then, could legitimately have called themselves progressives with a straight face. They were fighting against very real prejudices and doing some very fine and brave work to break down barriers.

Modern progressives, from what I can see, are largely to blame for much of the division and hatred we see in society today. Trying to divide everyone up into as many groups or "types" as possible, generating fake outrage, and pitting everyone against each other.

How exactly does highlighting the lack of hard evidence to support the theory of a gender pay gap, make someone a racist anyway? Very strange logic there. Like I said, mental gymnastics!

Yes, I'm sure it was conservatives who pushed for all the key social changes we've seen over the last few centuries. Conservatives are well know for...progressive attitudes.

Honestly?

Of course. Nobody seems to like realising that they are reactionaries, and they are the type of person who has stood in the face of every step of social progress in history. They imagine there was some exact moment, just a few years ago, when everything was ok, but now it has gone too far and they must roll things back. They (i.e. you) are like the doomsday cults where the end of the world, oddly enough, is always a few years ahead during their own lifetimes.

Tell yourself you would have been at the forefront of social progress if you like. You might even believe it.