Comments on: DoubleX Bites the Dust http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/20/doublex-bites-the-dust/ Piercing the Shield of Ignorance Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:04:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Feminists Declare Victory Over Recognition of Sex Addiction http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/20/doublex-bites-the-dust/#comment-29832 Feminists Declare Victory Over Recognition of Sex Addiction Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:01:32 +0000 http://www.the-spearhead.com/?p=1813#comment-29832 [...] a piece in Slate, Hannah Rosin, former editor of the radical feminist doublex blog, comes right out and calls sex addiction a “feminist victory.” Perhaps she is [...] [...] a piece in Slate, Hannah Rosin, former editor of the radical feminist doublex blog, comes right out and calls sex addiction a “feminist victory.” Perhaps she is [...]

]]> By: MarkyMark http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/20/doublex-bites-the-dust/#comment-12085 MarkyMark Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:36:05 +0000 http://www.the-spearhead.com/?p=1813#comment-12085 Anyone who thinks women will be fired in any numbers is dreaming! Women have the EEO/AA laws and gov't agencies (such as the EEOC) backing them up, and companies are rightfully scared of them. More men will continue to be fired than women. Women are a protected class, whereas men are not. Since it's easier for companies to fire men (they suffer no repercussions for doing so), that's who'll continue to get the ax... Anyone who thinks women will be fired in any numbers is dreaming! Women have the EEO/AA laws and gov’t agencies (such as the EEOC) backing them up, and companies are rightfully scared of them. More men will continue to be fired than women. Women are a protected class, whereas men are not. Since it’s easier for companies to fire men (they suffer no repercussions for doing so), that’s who’ll continue to get the ax…

]]> By: Arbitrary http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/20/doublex-bites-the-dust/#comment-11757 Arbitrary Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:56:08 +0000 http://www.the-spearhead.com/?p=1813#comment-11757 If it makes you feel better B&G, I read it, but don't really have anything much to add. I've run into younger women who were rabidly feminist...but I've also run into young women who were more or less as you describe--they want all the benefits, but don't want to have anything to do with the term itself. If it makes you feel better B&G, I read it, but don’t really have anything much to add. I’ve run into younger women who were rabidly feminist…but I’ve also run into young women who were more or less as you describe–they want all the benefits, but don’t want to have anything to do with the term itself.

]]> By: Black&German http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/20/doublex-bites-the-dust/#comment-11746 Black&German Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:31:58 +0000 http://www.the-spearhead.com/?p=1813#comment-11746 Don't you hate when you get to a post after everybody's done talking about it? I can practically see the tumbleweed bouncing across my screen... Don’t you hate when you get to a post after everybody’s done talking about it? I can practically see the tumbleweed bouncing across my screen…

]]> By: Black&German http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/20/doublex-bites-the-dust/#comment-11589 Black&German Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:11:19 +0000 http://www.the-spearhead.com/?p=1813#comment-11589 Woops. Forgot to close tags after the first paragraph... Woops. Forgot to close tags after the first paragraph…

]]> By: Black&German http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/20/doublex-bites-the-dust/#comment-11588 Black&German Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:10:48 +0000 http://www.the-spearhead.com/?p=1813#comment-11588 <em>Once you pay more in taxes than you earn, the 50% mark, there is no way you are incentivized to do more for the market, which would include the tax system.<em> About those high taxes: they raised taxes on us in Germany (in 2000, I think), so I did the math and realized I could cut my working week by an ENTIRE DAY and only lose 200euro a month. Sounded pretty good to me! I ran down to my human resources director to see about shortening my working hours and he just sighed and said, "Not you too? You're the 5th person in here today." I did cut my week, by the way. Didn't miss the money a bit and did more traveling. You can accomplish A LOT with a 3-day weekend. It's hard to get Germans to work more than 35-hours a week because they're basically working for free after that. I did the math once: About 42% of my gross income disappeared after taxes and deductions. Of the remaining 25%, I pay 19% value-added-tax (VAT) if I spend it. That's depressing and doesn't exactly make me want to work more hours. My boss gave me a big bonus once and asked me a few weeks after payday why I didn't mention it. Truth was: I hadn't noticed. The bonus got eaten up before it made it to the Net Income line. Once you pay more in taxes than you earn, the 50% mark, there is no way you are incentivized to do more for the market, which would include the tax system.

About those high taxes: they raised taxes on us in Germany (in 2000, I think), so I did the math and realized I could cut my working week by an ENTIRE DAY and only lose 200euro a month. Sounded pretty good to me! I ran down to my human resources director to see about shortening my working hours and he just sighed and said, “Not you too? You’re the 5th person in here today.”
I did cut my week, by the way. Didn’t miss the money a bit and did more traveling. You can accomplish A LOT with a 3-day weekend. It’s hard to get Germans to work more than 35-hours a week because they’re basically working for free after that.

I did the math once:
About 42% of my gross income disappeared after taxes and deductions. Of the remaining 25%, I pay 19% value-added-tax (VAT) if I spend it. That’s depressing and doesn’t exactly make me want to work more hours.

My boss gave me a big bonus once and asked me a few weeks after payday why I didn’t mention it. Truth was: I hadn’t noticed. The bonus got eaten up before it made it to the Net Income line.

]]> By: Black&German http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/20/doublex-bites-the-dust/#comment-11582 Black&German Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:48:36 +0000 http://www.the-spearhead.com/?p=1813#comment-11582 Welmer, I think my post ended up in junk due to some links. Welmer, I think my post ended up in junk due to some links.

]]> By: Black&German http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/20/doublex-bites-the-dust/#comment-11581 Black&German Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:43:56 +0000 http://www.the-spearhead.com/?p=1813#comment-11581 None of the women I know watch Oprah. We listen to Dr. Laura. There's actually a real and growing cleft between the ideology of the younger and older women. Evidence here: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/fem_hs.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003941.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30771408/ http://www.lifenews.com/nat481.html Most young women I know will deck you if you call them a feminist. It's become a dirty word. I hate to say it but I think Globalman is right. We just don't care about our careers like our mother's did. They were trying to "prove" something. It's been proven. I gave up a high-paying glamorous job to be a SAHM. My mom thought I was crazy. I think she was crazy to work herself to exhaustion for 25 years. Her entire income paid for child care and various after school activities to keep us busy until she got off work. My husband and I live much better off much less money than my parents had. Even the mothers I know who do work, work part-time for the benefits, as a hobby, to keep up with their career (to make it easier to return later), or because their husbands want them to. Often they'll say they do it just to "get out of the house". http://pewresearch.org/pubs/536/working-women Illegitimacy is the only thing young women are more liberal about. But that's because we're jaded about marriage after the way our parents acted. None of the women I know watch Oprah. We listen to Dr. Laura.

There’s actually a real and growing cleft between the ideology of the younger and older women. Evidence here:
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/fem_hs.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003941.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30771408/
http://www.lifenews.com/nat481.html

Most young women I know will deck you if you call them a feminist. It’s become a dirty word.

I hate to say it but I think Globalman is right.
We just don’t care about our careers like our mother’s did. They were trying to “prove” something. It’s been proven. I gave up a high-paying glamorous job to be a SAHM. My mom thought I was crazy. I think she was crazy to work herself to exhaustion for 25 years. Her entire income paid for child care and various after school activities to keep us busy until she got off work. My husband and I live much better off much less money than my parents had.
Even the mothers I know who do work, work part-time for the benefits, as a hobby, to keep up with their career (to make it easier to return later), or because their husbands want them to. Often they’ll say they do it just to “get out of the house”.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/536/working-women

Illegitimacy is the only thing young women are more liberal about. But that’s because we’re jaded about marriage after the way our parents acted.

]]> By: Sparks123 http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/20/doublex-bites-the-dust/#comment-11502 Sparks123 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:47:41 +0000 http://www.the-spearhead.com/?p=1813#comment-11502 Kerry Howley occasionally had an interesting piece on DoubleX. The rest of it was pretty worthless. Kerry Howley occasionally had an interesting piece on DoubleX. The rest of it was pretty worthless.

]]> By: jugglingbuffoon http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/20/doublex-bites-the-dust/#comment-11156 jugglingbuffoon Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:54:06 +0000 http://www.the-spearhead.com/?p=1813#comment-11156 I wish that Hanna Rosin had been fired instead of those other people. I read her article on male genital mutilation and was disgusted. This is a woman with practically no morals. I also hate it when people who have no understanding of the methods of science try to commandeer it to support their own ideologies. But it does make me happy that her project was shut down. I hope that soon her position at Slate meets the same end as DoubleX. I wish that Hanna Rosin had been fired instead of those other people. I read her article on male genital mutilation and was disgusted. This is a woman with practically no morals. I also hate it when people who have no understanding of the methods of science try to commandeer it to support their own ideologies.
But it does make me happy that her project was shut down. I hope that soon her position at Slate meets the same end as DoubleX.

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