I'm going to assume here, so bear with me: you're a heterosexual woman who has kids and stayed home with them, instead of splitting it with your heterosexual husband? Am I wrong? This is why I don't take heterosexual feminists in their youth particularly seriously (unlike lesbians, who are awesome and really the…

Eh slacker X will still get paid that, you just kind of suck it up and keep working for the Calvinist/Lutheran pride of work thing.

Don't fucking tell me to calm down cuz I ain't angry. You ain't seen angry.

Can we get a table of how much everyone makes at Gawker? That would really solidify my understanding of the issue. What's that, you don't like your salary being public? Huh, mine has been for my entire career and I don't give a single fuck, so why should you?

Education, as if people hadn't figured that out, isn't a guarantee.

Here's a hint: tax people individually and stop giving married (mostly heterosexuals of course) a free ride by allowing the man's income to be taxed at half the true tax value because his wife is a stay at home mom. That will solve many, many problems.

That stat is so ridiculously out of date it undermines the argument.

Then that's her choice right? Or are we saying women are only allowed to make choices you approve of? I don't see how you're going to get around that.

As a child who grew up with stories at least two thousand years old about trolls I would have looked down my nose hard at that rage, but thankfully it didn't seem to be a thing among my peers.

She strikes me as someone you don't fuck with. Like Hillary Clinton, but she knows how to cook and has nice friends.

I wonder if there's just something about American women that this is such an issue. One of the remnants of the Soviet era is women who don't flinch at harder, more grueling work in Eastern Europe, or for that matter in Northern Europe; you can't export electricians' jobs.

Yeah I'm not clear on why they think someone who works 20 hours a week as a teacher's aide is gonna get the same as an anesthesiologist.

Hush with your facts! We'll have none of that here.

Equal pay? Don't have kids. That usually helps.

Wasn't WY one of the first state to give women the vote?

You want equal pay, work for people who publish their salary tables. Yes, that's how simple it is.

Don't worry Mark, a hetero couple still makes more on average than a gay male or lesbian couple, so we can embrace our martyrdom much longer.

Ms Merlan isn't good at actual analysis, so she's taking little snippets and twisting them to serve her narrative. I don't believe this change is more than window dressing for the red meat crowd. They're just changing the order of things, which seems pretty shrug worth.

: you're being extremely condescending.

She'll probably start bleeding from the ears when something gets stuck in her head.