Claudia Flynn: Here’s why men should still pay for the first date (misogyny, gender inequality, the cost of make-up, waxing, nail upkeep, hair styling…)…)

A hilarious piece from a whine merchant in The Michigan Daily, which we really should add to our Laughing at Feminists website. The end of the gem:

This isn’t really just about a $50 bill at the end of dinner. [J4MB: An opinion piece about who pays the bill isn’t about… er… who pays the bill. Got it.]. It’s about men’s ideas that the expectations and sacrifices they experience in the romantic world are generally comparable to those women experience.

Notions such as “equal rights, equal fights” completely disregard the reality of the way women live in America. If women get to reap a few benefits, such as not paying the bill, not being expected to make the first move, being excluded from the draft [J4MB: Hmm, not a bad “benefit”…] or not participating in normalized fistfights with men (if we can even call that a benefit), then so be it. If your greater concern is with the way that men get the short end of the stick specifically through comparison with women, then maybe it’s time to examine your privileges, belief systems and views of inequities in the world. [J4MB: Pot, kettle, black, anyone?]

Ms Flynn’s email address is at the end of the piece.

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