I keep telling myself that my dad doesn’t mean any harm, he’s always been a “devil’s advocate” kind of person because he likes to have political conversations, he doesn’t yell or get irrationally angry about any of this stuff, he’s really not a horrible person at all and I love him ... but I just want to scream. If I…

I knew a couple where the husband was from Kentucky and the wife was from Southern Oregon but they’d both been in CA for years. At the wedding everyone assumed all the skin head/white supremacists were from the south, but nope! PNW is full of these types. I’m from CA and it’s the same, too. The more rural you get and…

Saw my dad over the weekend and he said it to my face as some sort of anti Hillary bellow. So I said “if you want to call a spade a spade.”

Don’t even get me started on purses. My wife has like, four purses of varying sizes. Why can’t she just carry a backpack for all her stuff, or wear pants with more pockets like I do?

Yes! I want to know about this mythical wonderland some of these people are living in where men are just paying for everything! Women work too and while we aren't paid at an equal level as men, it's not like we're working for pocket money.

I think it’s funny because my husband has some BS going on with his company as it goes through a long drawn out sale and he keeps saying he’s going to quit. The only reason that is an option (which when push comes to shove he won’t do but is looking for a new job)is because I make on par with what he does and we can…

I disagree that women in general have this approach. I’m a woman, I’m driven by a number, I work my hours for that number, and it’s fine because I like having that money. Some women are driven by money, some are not. Just like men.

This was never true universally, both my grandmother worked to support their families 50 years ago. If you go back an additional generation for me the only one of my great grandmothers didn’t work and that’s because she had family money she inherited as her contribution. A stay at home parent was a possibility and…

Damn right. These fucker are all “but what about the menz” and “girls don’t care—they have boys to help them!” Fuck outta here.

That’s a huge assumption about “all women” that just isn’t true. My own experience has been that women are just as success-driven as men, and when provided with the ability to be taken seriously they’re indistinguishable from “men” in corporate settings. Hell, the women I’ve worked with as peers ran the gamut from…

Dude, I’m a fucking single mom with a professional job. All I care about is the number, because it needs to be enough to support me AND my kid.

Right?! What are these people babbling about.

Good thing women aren’t a monolith. I do not fit into the box you’ve described.

I need to be able to pay my bills, make more to keep up with inflation, save for a reasonable retirement, and have enough left over to enjoy myself. I don’t work in industries that require 80 hours per week, so that is not a worry for me. I need to be able to take care of myself, no matter if I have a partner or not.…

Men rarely have those options? What percentage of the workforce is women again? It’s not that men don’t have the option of “falling back” on their spouses work; its that they have arbitrarily decided that their work is more valuable than their spouses and this result in a wage gap because women are expected to…

I sure as hell see a number as my goal. I would like to make as much as I reasonably can for my job.

I know. I mean why does my wife need more than 3 pairs of shoes? Sport, casual and dress suits me just fine.

It’s a fact of life, the natural state of things. Don’t worry your little head over it, just let the men folk handle the hard parts.

Plus it’s been shown that women simply don’t value money as much as men, why would they accept less pay otherwise? It’s called science.