03-10-2006, 06:29 PM
martini,Mar 10 2006, 01:03 PM Wrote:Given the wage inequity that women working genuine jobs have to face every day, I think it's pretty unfair to compare them with people who screw over the system. Saying that there is nothing wrong with the earning potential of women because an unscrupulous one can prostitute herself in order to scam the government (and potentially the other parent) is disingenuous at best.
With regards to the original topic, it's funny that the article is very much man vs. woman, which gets people locked into the arguments that we've all seen before, and neatly sidesteps the issue that in this case there is a child. The child didn't choose the methods or circumstances of his/her conception, and he/she needs support (and involvement) from both parents in order to have the best chance of a successful life.
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Round here, it's 8 or 9 bucks an hour as a common wage for both men and women. And min wage is still min wage. Lots of people, men and women, get it. So the earning potential is pretty much the same. i do realise it is different in other places, but here, where many people are poor, pennies are pennies, and dimes are dimes. Aint a lick of difference who or what you are, chump change is chump change. About the only way a woman around here can make really good money is to be a stripper or a waitress at a high end establishment. Sure, there are doctors and such, but a lot of the locals don't grow up and become doctors. We import those.
A girl with halfway decent looks can make a killing as a stripper round here, and a waitress that knows how to lean over the table just right with a few buttons popped, a charming bit of Southern accent, and a sunny disposition can easily clear two or three hundred a night from tips, provided she has most of her teeth and has a job in a place that is a bit higher end or caters to the damnyankees that somehow keep finding their way South. (And if I see one more tourist putting sugar on their grits, I am going to shoot somebody in the ass)
No such luck and no easy jobs for the men though. All of the mills are closing. Times are hard. There isn't very many jobs with decent pay. Most take a job working at some place as an in between job, and wind up stuck there. Service jobs, gas station attendants, auto detail (Hah! Car wash) Fast food. There are some good tech jobs and such here... But a majority of the local population doesn't have the education to do it. A few do, and these people get to write their own hours and demand as much pay as they please, but this is the exception to the situation. There is a severe lack of firemen, EMTS, and police, as more and more people can not meet the physical demands required to become employed in these services.
Forgive my bluntness, but round here a nice set of boobs is a leg up in the world. Women catch more breaks in the workplace than men do.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."