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    wilkomenwelcomebienvenueErin Gloria Ryan
    4/09/14 4:51pm

    This Bill would mean everyone would make less. The money tied up in frivolous lawsuits would kill companies and employees alike. Also, the wage gap exists with working men vs working women, total dollars, but shrinks to next to nothing when you put it on the equal footing of experience, hours, education, degrees, tenure, position etc.

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      andsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbanewilkomenwelcomebienvenue
      4/09/14 4:59pm

      My question here is:

      If the wage gap only exists a specific level and for a very small percentage of workers, why are the opponents of this bill pushing forward the "too many frivolous lawsuits" talking point?

      There would be a slight uptick in lawsuits, yes. But enough to bring down entire companies? Please.

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      KristenfromMAwilkomenwelcomebienvenue
      4/09/14 5:02pm

      White guy?

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    LisasaurErin Gloria Ryan
    4/09/14 4:55pm

    Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a break from shooting creepy SuperPAC B-Roll to dismiss equal pay as the left's most recent "obsession" and Equal Pay Day as akin to "blowing kisses" to the Democratic voting base.

    Seriously dude, GFY. Equal pay is not a silly little wedge issue, and to treat it as such is massively insulting. I'm glad your rich, old, wrinkly white ass never has to worry about this stuff but it matters to some of us.

    GIF
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      mairikagunspizzaLisasaur
      4/09/14 5:21pm

      All these retrograde idiots need to hear that the "wage gap impacts men, too!" THEN they will start to care.

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      MeganH1Lisasaur
      4/09/14 5:40pm

      Thank you for posting this gif; it's therapeutic. Now Ladies; let's get to work voting these SOBs out of office and demanding that this be rectified. Write and call your representatives, write your blogs and opinion pieces, tell friends, support worthier politicians. It's insane that we have to do this in this day and age, but this is what needs to be done.

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    PaintedTrollopErin Gloria Ryan
    4/09/14 5:09pm

    The GOP's latest line on the pay gap is that it isn't real. Naturally, the people who speak this bullshit are people who don't engage in hard work or manual labor. As anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant knows, there's a pay gap, especially if you worked in the kitchen. For some reason the penis has magical food preparation powers.

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      JoanMillerTwoSuitsPaintedTrollop
      4/09/14 5:19pm

      I ask you to imagine my ewwww! Because a picture entered my mind and I'm not paying for food made like that. Is what I'm saying.

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      PaintedTrollopJoanMillerTwoSuits
      4/09/14 6:48pm

      In 20 years of working in the restaurant biz I never saw anyone in a kitchen do anything icky or wrong with the food.
      I did once hear a penis in the chilled soup story, but the penis belonged to a waiter.

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    nointernetprivacyErin Gloria Ryan
    4/09/14 5:00pm

    My Republican father keeps telling me I vote for Democrats because I want to live off the government. I keep telling him it's because of shit like this. The man was raised by a single mom and his widowed grandmother. He has a wife and his only child is a woman, but somehow he just can't fucking wrap his head around the fact that this is a big fucking deal or that people might choose one political party over another because of it.

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      FaithMnointernetprivacy
      4/09/14 6:36pm

      I really hate this line of thinking so much. My relatives say the same shit and it pisses me off to no end. Irony of ironies: half of them have been on government assistance at some point in their lives. But of course, that's different—because they're white and "hard working," not like all the brown poors.

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    inProductionErin Gloria Ryan
    4/09/14 4:56pm

    Conservative talking heads are saying that the pay gap that is often quoted does not account for hours worked, education, work experience, etc.

    Is there a website that accounts for those so that we can compare apples to apples?

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      wilkomenwelcomebienvenueinProduction
      4/09/14 5:01pm

      I am not sure. Its tough because the internet is miserable. I was looking for a .gov study so I could hopefully find a less biased source. All I can find is MRAdudestightpolling.com and Feministsnotafraidtolietoadvanceagenda.org. Pretty tough finding good research.

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      FaithMinProduction
      4/09/14 5:51pm

      This one cites a buttload of studies that prove that pay discrimination is a real thing: http://social.dol.gov/blog/myth-bust...

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    wintersongErin Gloria Ryan
    4/09/14 6:13pm

    Attorney here. Don't buy the "creates frivolous lawsuits" argument, pretty much ever from anybody. This is the go-to nebulous fear for any kind of change to existing policy, and it's crap. Litigation is expensive, intimidating, and eats up your time, often for months or years. Really, the only time you have to worry about a change anywhere in a system of any kind leading to a flood of litigation is the rare scenario where litigants would, for whatever reason, be inspired to self-represent. A good example is inmates facing harsh prison sentences going to the prison library to learn to self-represent in alleging misconduct or insufficient representation of counsel against their defense attorneys, trying to overturn their sentences. It costs them nothing and, being incarcerated, they have precious little else to do with their time.

    But big, messy, lengthy, expensive cases against employers that will probably end in the employee being blackballed anyway? Please. Get a better excuse.

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      RealBrightEyesErin Gloria Ryan
      4/09/14 5:24pm

      Like a domestic violence abuser, the GOP is doing this out of "love, caring and for your own good".

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        daenarysqueenoftheyumyumsErin Gloria Ryan
        4/09/14 5:26pm

        They're not going to seriously stop until EVERY woman is back in the home, popping out babies. Because that is all that they see women for.

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