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I am a card-carrying feminist. If Rush Limbaugh wants to
call me a Feminazi, I’ll don the jackboots and Charlie
Chaplin mustache, damn it.
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I
am a proud lefty radical old-school women’s libber all
the way. So, that being the case, I am completely overjoyed
to hear that Idaho has cleaned up its act so much that they’ve
gotten rid of all their white supremacists and have gotten
so far down their discrimination list that they are taking
away a ten dollar pass given to women. Thanks, Idaho! You’re
doing a great job!
Of course, being unlucky enough to live in the hellhole of
gender discrimination called Southern California, on April
19th I was celebrating “Equal Pay Day”. Why, you
ask? Well because, depending on ethnicity, a woman (but apparently
not my lucky sisters in Idaho) still only gets anywhere from
55 to 76 cents for every dollar a man makes. And, in case
you haven’t gone shopping for a woman’s Quattro
razor lately, we pay more for everything from hairstylists,
cleaners to car dealers. Think about it, the “man version”
is always cheaper. So why is okay to charge five dollars more
for a woman’s haircut, but to give a woman a free ticket
to the races is not okay?
And please, Mr. or Ms. Math Whiz, will you explain to me
how taking away a privilege from a group who makes one-half
to three-quarters of what another group makes is “helping”
them?
I’m also wondering who the hell the whistle-blower
was.
If, like me, you want to know how Idaho has completely eliminated
all discrimination and is now chipping away at all the privileges
its women enjoy, you might want to contact The Idaho Human
Rights Commission and let them know your thoughts. The contact
info is below.
As for me, I’m going to ask them how I can make that
24 more cents an hour so I can pay full-price for my tickets
everywhere!
Contact:
Linda L. Goodman
Senior Civil Rights Investigator
Idaho Commission on Human Rights
1109 Main St. Suite 400
PO Box 83720
Boise, ID 83720-0040
Ph: (208)334-2873 or (888)249-7025
Fax: (208) 334-2664
Email: http://www2.state.id.us/ihrc/contact.htm
Read the news about Firebird here: http://www.firebirdonline.com/whats_new/05apr_20.htm
Read up on the National Committee on Pay Equity here: http://www.pay-equity.org
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