As if women weren’t having a hard enough time in America, white nationalist Stephen Miller is now the White House ‘point person’ on women’s issues.
The 31-year-old speechwriter [Stephen Miller] is now working closely with Kushner’s Office of American Innovation, as well as on family leave, child care and women’s issues with Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump, according to several people involved.
The only public knowledge we have of Stephen Miller’s thoughts about women’s issues is a 2005 op ed he wrote while still in college explaining that the reason women are paid less than men is because women don’t work as hard and don’t get the right jobs...like plumbing and sewer cleaning.
The problem with feminist theory lies with what kind of equality feminists are demanding. Women already have equal rights in this country. They enjoy all the same protections and liberties as men. What feminists demand now is equal results. Case in point: correcting the pay gap.
Feminists love to proclaim that women make only 76 cents for every dollar a man makes. These unequal results, they argue, are proof-positive of widespread gender discrimination. What they don't tell you is that, amazingly, this figure isn't adjusted for hours worked. The pay gap gets a lot smaller when you account for the fact that women work about only 85 percent as many hours as men and are responsible for only 10 percent of all overtime worked.
Women also choose lower-paying professions. Educated women are far more likely than educated men to go into service fields such as teaching and social working-admirable professions but ones that don't pay nearly as well as careers in business.
Men sacrifice much as well. Whether it's plumbing toilets, cleaning up sewers or picking up garbage, men tend to do all the dirty work in society. Naturally, the pay for these professions is given a boost because few people are willing to do them.
Men do the lion's share of the hazardous work, as well. From construction to late-night road repairs to policing the streets, the male work force puts itself in much more danger. Of all work-related deaths in a given year, about 95 percent are men. These high-strain and high-risk jobs pay better than careers requiring similar education but with fewer hazards.
There are still more factors to explain the pay gap-women are less likely to ask for a raise than men, women entered the work force more recently and are less credentialed, women are less likely to work night shifts, many women take off several years after having a child and so on-but the point is that the pay gap has virtually nothing to do with gender discrimination. Sorry, feminists. Hate to break this good news to you.
That’s it. That unsourced, factually inaccurate, offensive bullshit is Stephen Miller’s whole portfolio on ‘women’s issues’.
And yet he is now the White House point person on issues affecting half of the US population.
And. This. Is. Why. Women. Should. Always. Vote. Their. Identity. Lord knows men do.
Need more reminding about why women need to stand up for themselves at the ballot box? Here is a quick, partial list:
And don’t even get me started on equal pay or how the situation gets more complicated when racial issues get thrown into the mix. How all of the bullet points above impact lower income women more than those of higher means.
In so many ways, to be a woman in current America is to be screwed. And not in a good, safe, enjoyable way.
Voting your “identity” is about voting your life. It is what impacts you most directly. Anybody who says otherwise or insinuates that women’s issues are secondary issues is full of it.
Women are not equal in America. But we can get there if we stand up and fight.