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Major Nikon

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2. I have yet to see one person on DU reasonably quantify how men are more advantaged than women

Reply to Bonobo (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 19, 2014, 10:10 AM

Jan 2014

When asked, the standard answer is, 'men make 23%(actually 19.5%) more than women'. Naturally they don't want to hear that when relevant sociological factors are applied, the actually gender pay gap which could possibly be attributed to discrimination is statistically negligible. They also don't want to hear that men spend 29% more time working. Neither do they want to hear that men are disparately impacted by 14 of the 15 leading causes of death. So our 'advantage' is that we are wage slaves and get to die 5 years sooner.

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