"Viking"  wrote in message 
news:q3l251dpuna67g0la7q6o2ngu05p73q20n{at}4ax.com...
>
> connor_a reported...
>>
>>   "Despite their success and the fact that the
>>   number of women in the workplace has
>>   doubled in the last 20 years Australian women
>>   still find themselves earning an average of
>>   $16,170 a year less than their men."
>> 
>>
http://entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,12722872-22807,00.html/?from=ni_header
>
> "FIND" THEMSELVES???

Yeah, I noticed that earlier too -- kind'a ironic
that this phrase so often used by writers of
women's porn (romance novels) was taken
up by this article from a web site with
"entertainment" as part of its name.

> Get off it. Females are lazy. The fact that
> they earn "$16,170 a year less than their men"
> means they have a long way to go in pulling
> their own weight.

Until women give up their characteristic
passivity -- captured in phrases like "she
found herself" blah blah blah -- they will
never be "pulling their own weight" (as you
put it), Viking.  "Find themselves" (ha!) as
if these women were drifting along helplessly
under the thrall of some greater power, like
leaves swept down a stream, without any
volitional control or power of choice to
change where they end up.  I agree with
you, Viking, this article is a heap of cowsh*t.

I look forward to seeing the news outfit that
published that stinky cow pattie get crushed
under the pile of angry letters from feminists.
Yeah, feminists, for aren't they supposed to
be easily riled up by any implication that the
typical woman is a helpless Miss Dewdrop
who can't fend for herself?

I know.  I'm dreaming.  Feminists are loathe
to let go of the women-coddling double
standards that have always kept them in
their privileged position since time immemorial.

-- 
   There is one great advantage which women have
   over men: _they have a choice_ -- a choice
   between the life of a man and the life of a
   dimwitted, parasitic luxury item. There are
   too few women who would not select the latter.
   Men do not have this choice.

   Esther Vilar, "What is Woman?"
   in _The Manipulated Man_ (original title,
   _Der dressierte Mann_, English translation
   by Eva Borneman and Ursula Bender)
   Farrar, Straus and Giroux, publishers (1972)
   page 19.
   Publisher information at: 




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