Friday, July 10, 2009
Women with children earn about 22% less than their male colleagues, according to a new report that explores the "devastating" impact of motherhood on earnings.
"Before becoming parents, men and women are equally likely to be employed, but childbirth marks the start of a great divide, which continues even after children have left home and does lasting damage to women's careers," the report finds.
Women with children are rather costly to employ.
While we don't want to admit it, and we get all mad about it...it's true.
We were led to believe that we could do it all.
It's a Feminist Lie.
The truth of the matter is that when you have children, they have to come first...before your job, and I suppose there is ultimately a cost for that.
Especially when there is some childless person who is willing to do the time that you can't.
A video stream of people all over the world moonwalking accross the screen in a tribute to Michael Jackson.
Click on image to go there
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Inequality 101
"What is believed to be North America's first women's-only pharmacy is set to open Tuesday in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside".
I consistently don't understand why certain groups need to make issues out of non-issues.
Why do women need their own pharmacy?
If mens' groups decided that they needed to have a "male only" pharmacy...certain womens' groups would lose their collective minds. Human Rights violation application at the mere mention of opening such a thing.
Why is it ok for women to discriminate?
I wanted a female GP, so I found a female GP.
If you want a female Pharmacist, there are plenty of them...go to a pharmacy that has one.
Fuck.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
That's just mean....
Click on image and look closely to see why...
via: I have seen the whole of the internet
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
"It's a hot summer afternoon outside Toronto's City Hall and amid the throng of picketing unionized city workers, a dark-haired young woman with a strike sign hanging from her neck is as worried about her wallet as her job."
How many weeks of walking the picket line does it take before you've lost in income what you fought to keep in the contract, and end up behind in the game with less than you started?
Landlords and Human Rights Violations:
"Even when rental housing is available, thousands of marginalized individuals and families cannot make it through the door," says the report by the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation."
See, this is why the City should be responsible for affordable or low income housing.
The article makes all landlords sound like mustache twisting racists.
I don't think it's as simple as that.
Investigators believe Sahel Kazemi, 20, bought the pistol from a private owner Thursday night, not long after she was busted for drunk driving in an SUV with McNair.
Two days later, on Saturday, cops found the weapon under the lovers' lifeless bodies in a luxury condo in downtown Nashville - an apparent murder-suicide.
The former Tennesse Titans icon died just 6 miles away from the home he shared with his wife and three children.
See more pictures of her here.
She has a body to die for...apparently.
Monday, July 06, 2009
Friday, July 03, 2009
"Rules may help daters weed out the duds, but experts say they can also shutter windows of opportunity".
Translation: Lower your standards.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
I was there...I didn't stay for the whole thing because it was pouring rain.
They were selling everything from Diana Ross T-Shirts to Diana Ross joints...LOL
Some of these wall decals are rather nice.
IKEA sells some (scroll to the bottom of the page)...not like these, but kinda nice as well.
So, I caught the episode below of Hitched or Ditched, and I was torn.
While Torrino's mother is totally a racist, I kinda see some of mom's points.
Ok...not the white devil one...that was stupid...but, when she pointed out to his girlfriend El Lana that she never cooked, or helped out around the house when she was living with Torrino at their home, I was feelin' mom.
I dunno, this whole "I don't cook and clean" badge of honour many 20something women are wearing is really baffling to me.
El Lana, states rather firmly to Torrino's mother that she "doesn't do/enjoy that"...and then starts crying and playing the victim card when his mother states her concerns about the kind of wife she thinks El Lana will be to her son.
Torrino's mother calls her manipulative, and I can see what she's talking about.
Anyone who stands up for herself and states pretty firmly all the things that she will and won't do, generally isn't the kind of person who dissolves into a puddle of tears because someone tells her a few things.
Unless she's manipulative.
Listen, if you love the person you claim to love, you at least make an effort to not put them in a position of hurt, and difficulty when it comes to the people they love other than you..no?
Would it kill her to take a cooking lesson or two from his mother?
Perhaps bond a bit with her?
Help tidy up after dinner?
Jesus Christ...I just don't get it.
If I got started on all the things my West Indian Mother in Law taught me, there wouldn't be enough room on this blog...and while I was learning all those things we became family.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Today's LOL
Obama To Hold Job Performance Review With Every American Worker
in keeping with last week's Superhero Obama which also made me laugh:
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Years ago, I was good friends with Charlyn...we were close...sometime after the youngest of her three children turned 4 or 5, we lost touch...and we've recently found each other again through the internets.
I'm really looking forward to seeing and talking with her again.
Her uncle was Alton Ellis who recently passed away:
I love the food art that Edith Zimmerman does on her blog.
Click here to go there.
My bags are packed, I'm ready to go...
Recently, I've noticed that a lot of merchants have taken the lead of many supermarkets, and now charge .05 for a plastic bag. Not only does this give them the opportunity to help the environment, but also rewards them for doing so by letting them make money off of the bags they do sell.
I think this is a good thing.
But, then...I've been using cloth bags for a long time now, and while it was hard to remember to bring them with me into the store in the beginning, it's not a problem now.
That's why what I witnessed yesterday morning in a local shop shocked me.
A woman was cussing this poor guy behind the counter off because he was charging her for a bag. She was an older woman, so hearing her cuss like a soused sailor over a plastic bag seemed just wrong somehow. That's not how granny's supposed to behave!
The man behind the counter just stood there quietly, not saying a word while she called him all kinds of names...(including the politically incorrect names that she wouldn't like to be called). She snatched her purchases off of the counter (ironically, all Canada Day celebration items)..and cussed all the way out of the store.
I walked by the counter and told the man how impressed I was with how he kept his temper. He didn't say anything.
Just smiled.
When I got to the counter with my items, he tilted and lowered his head, looked up, smiled and asked sheepishly: "Would you like a bag?"...
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