perhaps I can preempt a few things;
Women = NO
Today women Aren’t Oppressed, They’re Actually The Most Protected Class In Our Society. Women control the very purpose of life. to recreate. Women chose if they want to get pregnant, stay pregnant and whom they want to mate with. Woman have next to, if not absolute equality in the workplace. Sometimes women actually have an advantage due to sex appeal. (Ok the last bit is sexist but women take advantage of the benefit all the time)
Blacks = No ish
Today, blacks are the CEOs of Massive corporations (American Express, AOL/Time Warner and Merrill Lynch.) Oprah Winfrey is a billionaire and Colin Powell is Secretary of State. This is not my pre 60's America.
Many blacks do remain oppressed, but not by white Americans. Rather, it is by blacks who relish a perverse sub-culture of low standards and perpetual victimization. No longer do white racists tell black children books are for white people. Today, black people do this. Every day, black children suffer ridicule and disgrace for doing their homework, behaving in class, striving for excellence.
Shall I go on?
Do you not understand how oppression works? Let's just ignore how "Oh, a few people are successful," does not mean "The communities face no discrimination." At best, it means in limited areas one form of discrimination is lessened. And let's ignore how "Women chose if they want to get pregnant, stay pregnant," just isn't true.
Let's ignore the whole swathes of the US that celebrate ancestors that fought for slavery, the fact women have far more to fear than men on something as simple as walking home. I genuinely have no idea where to start with this. Have to admit though, kind of impressive that someone who's obviously a white guy claims to know the lives and experiences of communities of which he is not a part, better than they themselves do.
Far easier to blame it on a 'perverse sub-culture' huh? Rather than acknowledge how black neighbourhoods etc are always ignored and underfunded. And easy to say women have an advantage based on sex appeal, rather than ignoring the fact it's hardly their choice that men are going to choose who's competent based on who they'd rather fuck.
Christ.
Starting with women, let's look at the issue of employment, with plain, raw stats rather than empty rhetoric.
http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/womens-earnings/archive/highlights-of-womens-earnings-in-2014.pdfI'd suggest skipping straight to the statistical tables, it makes things a lot clearer. Table 2's a good long one, giving the percentage earning of women compared to men, over all fields. I really do suggest looking at the table, and looking at how long it is, and noting that it is near-universally the case that women are paid less than men doing the same job, with two exceptions: in one case they're paid the same, and in one case a woman makes 102% of what a man makes (in the vastly enriching field of 'stock clerks and order filers'). Literally everywhere else women make less. That's not something that can be brushed off as luck or coincidence. Even if you want to argue that men get promoted more to higher fields, why is that the case universally? Even in female-dominated fields, why do men earn more?
Plus the above references disparities in race as well. Asian and white people tend to do the best; and it's easy to see why Asian people do better, because there's the stereotype that Asians are smarter. Guess what? That's racism too: it undervalues the work they still have to put in. And, regardless, it's still a matter of racial judgement, and black and Hispanic populations still do much worse.
Maybe that's down to this 'perverse subculture' of yours? Or maybe black people just don't get hired for... guess why?
http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.htmlSimple little study, the exact same CV sent out, with only the name changed from a typically black name, to a typically white name. Guess who did overwhelmingly better?
There's an easy start. Let's see how this goes, I have no desire to explain the depth and complexity and pervasiveness of misogyny and racism in the US today.
There is nothing wrong with a female using her looks as an advantage. Just like a business, measuring and using all available assets to get the advantage.
If I were a smart, attractive and ambitious female, I would use every bit of it to my advantage. I might even act dumb at times...the element if suprise is invaluable.
Better yet, if you were a smart and attractive woman, see how you'd deal with guys deciding to brush off your success as "Oh, you just got hired because you're pretty."
Anyway, bonus round, homophobia and transphobia.
Homophobia: we could talk about marriage rights and the related benefits, we could talk about conversion therapy and how common it is and how it's likely to become more common in the new administration, and the fact that it has been proven conclusively to not work and that every reputable psychiatric institution holds to that statement, and that pretty much all it achieves is a spike in suicides. We could talk about how it's unthinkable for children to see gay couples in books and fiction etc when straight couples have no such obstacle.
Transphobia: we could talk about how trans people, despite being a small percentage of the population, make up 16% of murder victims and that's considered to be woefully underreported. We could talk about 'bathroom bills' which make zero sense because trans people going into their preferred bathrooms doesn't make assault legal, and with those bills you get scenes like
this which is apparently what they want to avoid. Or we could talk about how trans people are just punchlines.
There's a whirlwind tour for you.
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