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Adulting 101: The post that started it all! Discount cards, xmas lights, and general food advice.

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Adulting 104: Electric bill budgets, lint drawers, and why mixed greens are more trouble than they’re worth.

Adulting 105: Paper bills, Yankee Candles, and where to purchase postage stamps.

Adulting 106: Scented tampons, dishwasher pods, and why you should live next to a fire department.

Adulting 107: Command hooks, inexpensive bathroom decor, and why organic cucumbers are overrated. 

Adulting 108: An Adulting post dedicated entirely to apartment hunting!

Adulting 109: Cleaning your shower head, condiments, and why you should never buy Dollar Store paper towels.

Adulting 110: Food hygiene, Airborne, and automatic payment advice.

Ok but wage gaps are real???? Like at least in Canada they are. Females make 70 cents for every dollar a male makes for the same job. Like that person is poorly educated. I've done my research.

I saw this summed up really well one time by @fandomsandfeminism:Let’s talk about the wage gap, and PAY GAPS.

People often fail to appreciate the difference between pay gaps and wage gaps. You are asking for specific examples of wage gaps, but pay gaps are often an even bigger problem.

Wage gaps, where people’s actual SALARIES for equal work show a disparity, (which is what you are looking for examples of) can and do still happen, of course, we know that they do, but pay gaps are even more insidious. In 2010 the median income of Full time Year Round workers was $42,800 for men, compared to $34,700 for women. The reasons for this are varied, and when you factor in race, disability, trans identity, and sexual orientation the numbers can become even more startling.

For example: A study by sociologists Shelley Correll, Stephan Benard, and In Paik found that, when comparing equally qualified women job candidates, women who were mothers were recommended for significantly lower starting salaries, perceived as less competent, and less likely to be recommended for hire than non-mothers.  The effects for fathers in the study were the opposite: fathers were actually recommended for significantly higher pay and were perceived as more committed to their jobs than non-fathers.[source] [source]

But just looking at gender, even ignoring employers that do break the law and pay their female employees less (and yes, you can TRY to bring that to court and pay all those court fees. Never mind that not all women have the resources to DO THAT), there are many other factors that come into play: Women have less success in gaining promotions than their male counter parts (and other Glass Ceiling effects), women are dissuaded from higher paying fields (such as STEM fields) through institutional hostility, women are expected to take unpaid maternity leave for child care when men are not (regardless of whether or not they will), women are less successful at salary negotiations and are sometimes even penalized by employers for trying at MUCH higher rates than men, work that is traditionally female dominated being undervalued on a cultural level (women might be cooks, but not chefs; nurses, not doctors; etc.) and a myriad of others.

We know, for example, women need an additional degree in order to make as much as men with a lower degree over the course of a lifetime. A woman would need a doctoral degree, for instance, to earn the same as a man with a bachelor’s degree, and a man with a high school education would earn approximately the same amount as a woman with a bachelor’s degree.

The fact is that women, on average, DO make less than men, and the issue isn’t always direct illegal wage imbalance. The issues are often far more wide reaching and speak to a cultural misogyny that has to be confronted beyond just legislation.

This is a really good article to read for more information:Explaining the Wage Gap“-V

too true.

such floof

So… the day after a petulant congress overrides The President’s veto now they want to blame him for a bad bill that they made law, and are in a rush to fix in the law because of the EXACT problem with it he warned them about.

Ladies and gentlemen. The republican lead congress.

Wentworth Miller Slams Meme Mocking His Weight

At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA. At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.  At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer. 

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.   At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook. At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.  At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.  At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs. Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51. Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40. Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40. Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career to pursue acting at age 42. Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first movie role at age 52. Kathryn Bigelow only reached international success when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57. Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76. Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78. Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow. Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

You can do it. Whatever it is. 

Sean O'Connell still has the best weigh-in stare downs

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.