Melissa Harris-Perry: Carney is ‘Mansplaining’ WH ‘Pay Gap’; Also Nurses And Doctors Are The Same Thing.

Today on MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry was discussing the “equal pay gap” and related legislation. During the extremely long segment, the gaffe prone host brought up Jay Carney and the White House “pay gap”.

It is a funny thing about militant feminists how they insist there is no difference between men and women, yet have no problem constantly harping on the difference between men and women with cute little sayings like “mansplaining.” I call this the definition gap. Because since we’re saying things that don’t mean anything, why not?

Carney offered up this week an explanation for the difference in wages earned at the White House between men and women. Carney’s explanation was that the pay is equal, it just so happens there are more men in higher paying positions than women. MHP thinks this is a load of malarkey and goes into a very revealing rant about what causes the pay gap.

First, dismissing Carney’s explanation, while hilarious because he is getting a taste of his own lefty medicine, is silly rhetorical nonsense. If I own a company, and am the CEO, and I have one female employee, and she is the janitor, then we are going to earn different amounts of money. By Harris-Perry’s logic, that is gender-based wage discrimination. Absurd, yes?

Second, her list of other factors is truly astounding. She laments that CEOs make more than non-CEOs, because women executives are more likely to not be the CEO, she says more women work in jobs that pay less, and she even laments that nurses make less than doctors because nurses are disproportionately female. Which I suppose leaves the profession open to criticism of a nurse hiring gap. You may laugh, but that is precisely what people like MHP would claim if the field were predominantly male. And I suppose it would be far too much to ask of Harris-Perry to tell her audience if male and female OBGYNs make the same amount of money or not?

The entire litany of grievances raises the question of how we are supposed to correct this non-problem. Shall we make a national salary applicable to all people for all jobs, regardless of difficulty, number of hours, or expertise? That’s the only way I see to fix it. Otherwise statistical math assures us that there will always be one group making less than another group if you simply choose the right parameters to complain about. I’m pretty sure, for example, that male wet nurses are in low demand and aren’t making a great deal of money. You think?

Tommy Christopher, writing at The Daily Banter, gives us a delightful example of the cognitive dissonance required of men on the left who can do math but also wish to kiss the collective backsides of the feminist movement on any and every issue they possibly can. He wishes to defend the mighty Obama administration, but still hopes to pander to feminist grievance culture. So for him, there both is AND IS NOT a wage gap. Of course, he eventually takes the easy path and just blames Fox News.

Carney offered up a reasonable explanation for the question he was asked. But it wasn’t enough for the likes of Melissa Harris-Perry. The only correct answer to democrat feminists is “yes, you are right. I have no desire to argue.” And isn’t THAT an ironic bit of stereotypical advice for dealing with women. Feminism indeed.


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