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A sign saying: "MEN TEND TO CHOOSE HIGH PAYING PROFESSIONS - LIKE DOCTOR, ENGINEER, CEO, ETC., WHILE WOMEN NATURALLY GO TOWARD LOWER PAYING CAREERS - LIKE FEMALE DOCTOR, FEMALE ENGINEER, AND FEMALE CEO."

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 93 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ladies: Have you considered becoming a man for higher pay?

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, is that why transmasc are more tolerated than transfem: conservatives can't understand willingly taking a pay cut.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 11 months ago

Trans men aren't more accepted or tolerated, a huge portion of the fear mongering about trans youth is about "cutting off healthy breasts" and "ruining their fertility." Literally just look at the cover of Irreparable Damage.

I'm trying to not be a dick here but this is a fairly large point of trauma for me: what do you imagine happens when a trans man shows up in a doctor's office, possibly without a legal name change, almost certainly marked as female in their system? Because I can assure you it's not that you get totally respected and treated as a normal dude.

Trans men are threatening to patriarchy by virtue of being "women" who do not stay in their place.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 11 months ago

[Takes testosterone]

"No!!! You're having an unfair advantage in... uh... Corporate hierarchical structures!!!"

[–] willeypete23@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's not complicated but it's also not sexism. When women begin entering a job market the supply of labor suddenly doubles but the demand stays the same there for the price of that labor goes down.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Okay that's why wages went down.

Now do why men's wages went down less

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's also a stupid excuse for wages going down to begin with. Especially since we know that we are currently in a labour shortage which according to capitalist supply and demand theory should have immediately caused wages to increase, and I don't think the shortage is gender specific.

[–] Acters@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

This has to be bait, there is plenty of work that can be done and lots of research to do and plenty of cash to go around. Its the overwhelming greed from the richest people in the world that hold their wealth instead of letting it flow in the economy. Its disgusting how pay is currently is and you should be ashamed for thinking we are hitting some supply limit instead of other major factors at play that are strangling people's ability to have liveable fair wages.