Gender pay gap

[Kinser79]

(05-26-2016, 06:11 PM)Bronco80 Wrote: You've got the process backwards here, though it is a mistake almost everyone makes (I make it myself at times).  Congress is the one responsible for creating law.

No, you didn't read my post.  I clearly stated that the Democrats had control over the House which is majority driven, and that they had the 60 votes to break any filibuster in the Senate they just had to herd all their cats into the right direction.

Quote:  All that the president's responsible for is signing or vetoing it after the fact.  Obama could have screamed bloody murder for a Medicare Part E and it would do no good if not enough votes in Congress are interested.  It's true that the president can try to set the tone via public relations, but the president isn't a prime minister: in the US system, the executive and legislature is separate, and neither particularly likes the other to tell them how to do their job.

Sure seems odd to me that most President's have no problem getting whatever they want if their party is in charge of both houses of Congress.  All he needs to do is make the Congress say no, assuming he has popular support which Obama did during his first two years.  No he squandered every opportunity to pass actually socialized medicine and instead we get a plan designed to fail from the Heritage Foundation.

Quote:The type of slutshaming does tend to differ in society by sex, I'm using the term a bit broadly here.  Most women do it on terms that are more blatant and familiar--for most men it ties back to the awful concept that a woman should only be having sex with the one man that is "his woman", that a woman's sexuality is only for the purpose of the man.

Not quite true.  Humans by and large are serially monogamous.  That is how we evolved because our children, which are the intended result of sex from an evolutionary standpoint, are so helpless that a man is only interested in making massive investments in children that are his.  When it comes to females who do not conform to that, they are not so much shamed by men, but rather viewed as unsuitable for marriage and raising kids with.

With women, and this only really applies to straights--and I've never been straight so I'm kind of going off what my straight friends say--women are the gate keepers of the vagina and as such a female that is looser than is socially acceptable (that is to say a slut) is an actual threat to their sexual currency.