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Adventures in the Patriarchy™ Vol IX: ‘Micro-Feminisms’

SAUL LOEB

Chronicling the ongoing intersectional struggle to liberate women — inclusively defined as the legacy kind and the transgenders — from The Patriarchy™, one microaggression at a time. 

Equal Pay Day

Since it has been so thoroughly debunked by now, as the theory does not account for obvious confounding factors — like women’s job preferences  (self-selecting for lower-paid industries), taking time off to have a baby, etc. — I assumed the feminists had retired the “gender pay gap” narrative in favor of more compelling ones.

I was wrong; the zombie lives, marked March 25, as “Equal Pay Day.”

Via CNBC (emphasis added):

For decades, women have faced an uphill battle in the workplace.

Even now, although women are achieving increasing levels of education and representation in senior leadership positions at work, there remains a stubborn pay gap and promotion gap.

Equal Pay Day — which this year falls on March 25 — is a reminder of the persistent income inequality between men and women. The date marks just how far into the new year full-time female workers have to keep working to make what their male counterparts typically made in just the previous year.

As it stands, women earn just 83 cents for every dollar earned by men, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the National Women’s Law Center.

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Fun fact counterpoint:

In feminist utopia Iceland, women already outnumber men in higher education by a 2:1 ratio.

Some American colleges are already there. The rest will catch up if trends continue.

Via Pew Research (emphasis added):

In 1995, young men and women were equally likely to hold a bachelor’s degree (25% each). Since then, there has been a growing gap between men and women in college completion.  

Today, 47% of U.S. women ages 25 to 34 have a bachelor’s degree, compared with 37% of men.

Somehow, I don’t see corporate state media making a big deal out of gender disparities like that that don’t fit their narrative. “Equity” is only on the agenda if it is heading in one direction.

‘Micro-feminisms’

This week, in “First World Problems,” Middle-class British women office workers explain the various ways in which they insert their toxic ideology into everyday interactions for the cause, which includes making men hold their babies and playing chicken with male pedestrians.

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Saudi Arabia, of all the nations on Earth, heads U.N. Commission on the Status of Women

What’s not surprising at all is that the United Nations has a fixation on “gender equity.”

Via Associated Press (emphasis added):

Confronting a rising backlash against women’s rights, the U.N.’s 193 member nations made a commitment Monday to accelerate action on more than a dozen fronts to achieve gender equality.

A political declaration adopted at the start of the annual meeting of the U.N.’s preeminent body promoting equality for women and girls recognizes that men and boys must be “strategic partners and allies” to achieve the goal…

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Monday’s meeting that three decades after Beijing’s conference, women’s rights are " under siege.” Hard-won gains are being thrown into reverse, he said, pointing to attacks on reproductive rights and the discarding of initiatives promoting gender equality.

“The poison of patriarchy is back — and it is back with a vengeance: slamming the brakes on action, tearing-up progress, and mutating into new and dangerous forms,” he warned.

What is, or at least should be, shocking is that its Commission on the Status of Women is led by none other than ultra-fundamentalist Saudi Arabia, which until very recently forbade women from driving automobiles on account of them not being trustworthy outside of their homes behind heavy machinery.

Continuing:

At last year’s opening of the annual two-week meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women, there were five male speakers in a row — a lineup that made some of the men uneasy and was somewhat baffling to the hundreds of women in the packed General Assembly chamber.

On Monday, the CSW chair, Saudi Arabia’s U.N. Ambassador Abdulaziz Alwasil, opened the meeting in the same packed chamber but had three young women speak immediately after him.

If only the Taliban had enough oil cash, they too could sit atop the global feminist social engineering apparatus.

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