Men of Lemmy, what is the biggest lie that people still think is true?
Men of Lemmy, what is the biggest lie that people still think is true?
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That it's good, necessary or acceptable to cut bits off your baby's genitals.
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The idea that men make more than women for similar jobs with similar experience is a myth that needs to die.
The idea was based on flawed data from the get-go, but it has persisted because it is an easy way to rile up the troops.
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Whoo boy.
I used to work in the financial industry, specifically in a program geared toward women (trying to make financial services more approachable and inclusive). Much of their published "educational" material is about the harsh financial realities of being a woman, and the writers keep repeating this falsehood ... as if the phrase "controlled pay gap" is profanity.
Don't get me wrong, we should still be mindful of bias. We should acknowledge the pressure on women to take career breaks as caretakers (and, on the flip side, the pressure on men to be primary wage earners). And it's perfectly valid to question whether pink collar work is undervalued and underpaid because these are traditionally female occupations.
But the women I worked with (most of them VPs in finance) simply preferred to believe that they were underpaid because of their gender. No matter what dollar figure you offered, no matter the industry/company/job role/etc., they would firmly believe that having a penis = 20% pay bump.
Like ... that's not how averages work ??
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That anyone has their life together. Everyone is just winging it for the most part.
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So true. I hope more people realize this so that we can be kinder to each other.
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Yeah but there are degrees of having one’s life together.
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That you can grow up and be anything you want.
Yeah, there are still people telling the lie, and still people believing it
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Chris Rock said it best and it has always stuck with me:
"Stop telling kids they can be anything they want to be. You can be anything you're good at, as long as they're hiring."
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That thing is more about collapsing options as time moves on though. When you're a kid you really can be 'anything' ignoring social and economic stuff. The probability curve is pretty open to anything at that point though. Once you're thirty it feels squarely like that is less true and my options are clearer but more limited.
It's scary but also awesome that you have so many open doors as a kid and adults that say this are mostly envying something they've lost and didn't appreciate or see until later
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that andrew tate is an “alpha male” and its a good way to live/behave.
that chinless fuck is ruining a large disenfranchised group of men
As someone who completely missed this Andrew Tate thing, does anyone have a good summary for me?
man who things being a misogynist is how you get women. incels love him. charges people for his “courses”