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This day in history: Author Warren Farrell was born on this day in 1943. He wrote one of the first "red pill" books I have read, "The Myth of Male Power."
From the above link: "The Myth of Male Power documents how virtually every society that survived did so by persuading its sons to be disposable–disposable in war, disposable at work–and therefore, indirectly, disposable as dads. Universities teach our children that we live in a patriarchal world controlled by men to benefit men at the expense of women. Dr. Warren Farrell’s The Myth of Male Power says 'false': the world has not been controlled by men, but by the need to survive."
"If men are the powerful sex…
• Why are they the suicide sex? (Why are we unaware that our grandfathers are 1350 percent more likely to commit suicide than our grandmothers?)
• Why did men live one year less than women in 1920 but five years less than women in 2013?
• Why are our dads more likely to die earlier of the leading causes of death even as we have seven federal offices of women’s health, and none of men’s health?
• Why are our sons still sex expected to pay more for the 5 D’s: drinks; dinners; dates; driving expenses; and diamonds (as in “every kiss begins with Kay”)?
• Why do myths such as 'men earn more money for the same work' persist even though they’ve been disproven?
• Why do men receive longer prison sentences for identical crimes?"
One of the examples that Farrell uses to illustrate male powerlessness is male-only draft registration. He writes that if any other single group (the examples he lists are Jews, African-Americans, and women) were selected based on their birth characteristics to be the only group required by law to register for potential death, we would call it anti-Semitism, racism or genocidal sexism. Men, he says, have been socialized to call it "glory" and "power," and as a result do not view this as a negative.
Do men really earn more? "Women are 15 times as likely as men to become top executives in major corporations before the age of 40. Never-married, college-educated males who work full time make only 85 percent of what comparable women earn. Female pay exceeds male pay in more than 80 different fields, 39 of them large fields that offer good jobs, like financial analyst, engineering manager, sales engineer, statistician, surveying and mapping technicians, agricultural and food scientists, and aerospace engineers. A female investment banker's starting salary is 116 percent of a male's. Part-time female workers make $1.10 for every $1 earned by part-time males."~John Leo
"There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist."
Where men do earn more is in work that is risky, dangerous, stressful with a willingness to locate to undesirable locations.
"...when The Jobs Related Almanac ranked 250 jobs from best to worst based on a combination of salary, stress, work environment, outlook, security and physical demands, they found that 24 of the 25 worst jobs were almost-all-male jobs....Some examples: truck driver, sheet-metal worker, roofer, boilermaker, lumberjack, carpenter, construction worker or foreman, construction machinery operator, football player, welder, millwright, ironworker. All of these 'worst jobs' have one thing in common: 95 to 100 percent men. And within a given death profession, the more dangerous the assignment, the more likely it is to be assigned to a man....One reason the jobs men hold pay more, then, is because they are more hazardous. The additional pay might be called the 'Death Profession Bonus.'" Sun-Sentinel
Men are also willing to work longer hours than women.
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