“that means they will have to reduce the pay for the men they employ”

I know someone like this. She asks her husband’s permission before she buys nail polish or an eyeshadow palette. And the real kicker? Sometimes he actually fucking says no. Or he’ll tell her she can buy it only after she puts in some overtime at work. What kind of life is that??

If your husband dies, you obviously screwed something up as a wife. Make better sandwiches next time.

Wow. No wonder these old white guys seem to take an us-against-them attitude; it’s really old white guys vs... everyone else.

He’s bitter and resentful of us because we have nothing but disposable income in our purses instead of teething rings and baby puke, heheh.

This reminded me of the time that, three days after getting married, I was trying to convince my doctor that I really, genuinely, truly wanted to be sterilized and he thought that it was important to remind me that I still need to be fertile and available to men after he dies because what about my future husband and…

Straw men & red herrings & reductio-ad-absurdum are all they’ve GOT.They’ve run out of all remotely plausible-sounding arguments— over the centuries— as to why women shouldn’t work and, if they must, why they don’t deserve to be paid a fair wage.

So what happens if a woman isn’t married off at 18 with a man to provide for her? Or if that said man dies? Do they offer a replacement husband?

I am wondering where this douche-nozzle thinks that leaves us harpies who don’t wish to have kids? Do i still get to a have a big strong man pay all my bills, including student loans? legit dying to know what this turd muncher says about that.

Mothers will be forced to leave the home (where they may prefer to be) to join the workforce to make up the difference.

I’m willing to bet that Jimmy is still pissed that Stacy girl beat him out for senior class president, number one spot on the chess club, highest rank in Junior Achievement, AND, to add insult to injury, told him she wouldn’t go to prom with him because he was a backwards doofus. Little Jimmy holds a grudge.

I love how “Give everyone the same pay for the same work” is bullshat into “Force women to work even if they don’t want to.”

I am willing to bet that Mr. Green is the kind of man who would be unable to find his way out of a paper bag without the help of a Woman employee, whom he naturally would not pay a fair wage to.

A historical understanding of fairy tales and what we think of as “children’s” literature reveals that the vast majority of them were always meant to be very adult tales, often told by bawdy raconteurs around village campfires. Most of them have to do with basic survival, and there are distinct subcategories. Beauty…

I’d argue actually that from Disney on the Beauty and the Beast story changed remarkably.

Yes I had the shortened version of this in a picture book as a kid! The mermaid sisters want her to.kill the prince but she can’t so she dies... it was actually a cute book with like those holographic pictures.

Yeah, I think you’re onto something here. Sometime in the 20th century fairy tales became much more fun, and the older ones with less positive endings and morals were just sort of elided into that trend. Probably Disney is responsible for a good bit of it. How many people actually know the real ending of the Little…

I really wish there were more reverse Beauty and the Beast stories where the beast is a girl. There are a few of those stories. I just wish there were more.

I think what kept me from getting into Beauty and the Beast was how rage-y he was. Even as a kid, when he started freaking out at Belle for finding the rose, I was just so over it.

That and his staff who were constantly just like oooooh no he’s not so bad! Go ahead Belle! Go be with the rage dude!*

*it’s been a…

Wasn’t the beast a child when he got cursed? So... When he turned the old woman away he was actually making a fairly mature decision for someone his age. I mean, even without parents (right?) he still knew, you know, stranger danger and all that. And he was right! She cursed the shit out of him!