Welcome to Keith knight don't tread on anyone in the
libertarian institute. Here is Thomas soul's challenge
to feminists. Radical feminists seem to assume
that men are hostile to women, but what would they say to the
fact that most of the women on the Titanic were saved and most
of the men perished due to rules written by men and enforced by
men on the sinking ship? Could you imagine if society had
a general motto that you should never hit a white person?
You would obviously see that as totally bigoted and explicitly
racist. Any society that says you should
never hit a woman, it's not a great indicator that they are
actively sexist against women. Anytime there's an emergency and
people say women and children first, well that discriminates.
Any society where men only have been conscripted into military
service to get their limbs blown off and to get killed by the
literal millions is not a society where the primary issue
is sexism against women. Seoul goes on to address the
gender pay gap myth. The most important reason why
women earn less than men is not that they are paid less for
doing the very same work, but that they are distributed
differently among jobs and have fewer hours and less continuity
in the labor force Among college educated, never married
individuals with no children who work full time and we're from 40
to 64 years old. That is beyond childbearing
years. Men average $40,000 a year in
income while women averaged 47,000.
Also, you would never expect people doing the same work to
get paid equally. If both LeBron James and I play
basketball for one hour, you would not expect him and I to be
compensated the same. If both Chris Rock and I get up
on stage and talk for an hour, you would not expect us to be
compensated equally. If both Mila Kunis and I started
and only fans separately, would you expect her and I to have
equal incomes? No, of course not.
If both Meryl Streep and I decided to be actors in a movie
that was two hours long and we had the same number of lines and
it took the same exact amount of time for us to read the lines
and develop the character, would you expect us to get paid the
same? What if I did 50 movies and she
did 1? You would still expect her to
get more because we create different levels of value.
Here is Doctor Michael Humor from the University of Boulder,
Co in his book Progressive Myths on the Disparity Between the
Genders. Consider another even more
shocking disproportion. Males make up only 50% of the
population, but 95.5% of police shooting victims.
Men are thus 21 times more likely to be shot by police than
women. One could claim that this
indicates an extraordinary degree of sexism, many times
worse than the racism shown by police departments.
It turns out men have roughly 1517 times as much testosterone
as women and are more violent than women.
That explains the disparity. Their drive to attract the
opposite sex comes from them wanting to earn more money and
attracting with their resources and personality, whereas women
tend to attract with their looks.
There's nothing sexist or nefarious or terrible about this
disparity, Humor says in a later section of the book.
It is common to lament how most of the jobs with the highest
income, status and power jobs, such as CEO or US senator, are
male dominated. We attend less often to
society's worst jobs, but nearly all of the worst and most
dangerous jobs in America. Garbage collector, roofer,
construction worker, and so on are also overwhelmingly male
dominated. For example, the most dangerous
legal job in America, lumberjack, is about 95% staffed
by men. As a result of this pattern, men
suffer over 90% of all workplace deaths in America each year.
This is not an indication of patriarchy.
It is an indication that men are, on average, willing to do
more for money than women are. Michael Humor summarizes the
research of Warren Farrell in his book Why Men Earn More.
He is a political scientist. Farrell identifies 25 things
that tend to get an employee more pay, though some of these
are redundant. According to Farrell, 1 can be
expected to be paid more money for one.
Working in technology or the hard sciences rather than arts
or social sciences. Working in a dangerous field
such as the military. Being exposed to whether rather
than working indoors. Taking a job from which you
can't psychologically check out at the end of the day.
Taking a less fulfilling job. Taking higher financial and
emotional risks. Working undesirable hours.
Working in unpleasant environments or with little
human contact. Updating your skills for the
latest market needs. Choosing the most lucrative
subfield within your field. Working longer hours.
Having more years of experience in your current occupation.
Having more years of recent uninterrupted experience with
your current employer. Working more weeks of the year.
Being less absent often from work.
Commuting farther. Relocating at the company's
behest. Traveling extensively for the
job. Taking on different
responsibilities from others with your job title.
Taking on bigger responsibilities from others
with your job title. Accepting less security.
Having more training in your current occupation.
Starting with higher career goals.
Doing more in depth job searches and being more productive.
So the feminist conspiracy theory does not explain the
white male the straight white male pay gap.
Some straight white men are homeless.
Some straight white men are millionaires.
Warren Farrell's research explains why some people get
paid more than others. Then you see immediately why
Asians earn more than whites on average, Why Nigerian immigrants
earn more than whites on average, Why older people tend
to earn more money than younger people on average.
The concept of there being a patriarchy is so shallow.
It just takes an arbitrary characteristic of a ruling
class. Doesn't say if the ruling that
they're doing is beneficial, if the ruling is too costly, if
it's morally just, if it's inherently immoral.
It just says there are men disproportionately there and
women are 90% of preschool teachers.
That doesn't tell us anything about why they're attracted to
the job or the benefits people are reaping from their
employment. It is literally like saying we
live in a Jewarchy where a Jewish people have a
disproportionate amount of high positions and influence within
society and what they end up doing is making laws and
crafting them in such a way that benefit themselves at the
expense of the masses. So we really need to watch out
for the Jewarchy. That is how ridiculous the
concept of patriarchy is. Thank you for watching Keep
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