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Actually, I think you are willing to "correct" others while continuing to ignore your own prejudices, despite what you might believe about alcoholism. That's where the self righteous comes in.

I have merely informed on this forum. Clearly I have not "corrected" anyone. In fact, the only correction that has been made at all was my plural use of "racist".

I have not changed any minds and I don't suspect that I will. But much of what I said is true whether you believe or not. I did acknowledge my short comings which I believe is the exact opposite of "righteousness". Believing that you have no faults is what 'righteousness" actually is.

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So basically there is no answer to the gender pay gap, besides categorizing every job and defining its duties and making a mandated pay scale. The issue is just a campaign talking point to make dems look good and repubs look bad.

That's what I thought.

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EXACTLY! And though people want to believe men and women are the same, we are not. It goes beyond the social norms that take the blame. It's part of our DNA.

I have no argument with this, but socially we are well beyond hunting and gathering. Economic forces are a social construct and are man made. They have no linkage to biology. Many roles in a modern society are not defined by strength and therefor the compensation for those roles should not be based on gender.

Pretty simple in concept but millions of years of gender roles still play a part in a man made construct that bears little resemblance to tribal man.

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So basically there is no answer to the gender pay gap, besides categorizing every job and defining its duties and making a mandated pay scale. The issue is just a campaign talking point to make dems look good and repubs look bad.

That's what I thought.

Not quite. Look, if you are not at work to get land the project that nets the promotion I believe that is fair. What actually isn't fair is a little upside down. Men should be afforded the same consideration when it comes to family leave.

But, in many instances, women, honestly believe that they are simply better at the "home stuff" and since it has always been that way, who are we to argue.

But, if men were awarded paternity leave and not judged for having to leave a meeting early to get a kid to practice it would serve to start evening things out.

If mom is always taking the snow days because it is just more 'socially accepted" that she is the one to do it then she is the only one harmed. If the accepted burden was viewed more equal then the opportunities to land that project and be able to follow through can increase because one person is not taking the brunt.

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I have no argument with this, but socially we are well beyond hunting and gathering. Economic forces are a social construct and are man made. They have no linkage to biology. Many roles in a modern society are not defined by strength and therefor the compensation for those roles should not be based on gender.

Pretty simple in concept but millions of years of gender roles still play a part in a man made construct that bears little resemblance to tribal man.

Yup. But my Labrador has absolutely no experience in hunting or retrieving, none. She basically sleeps, wags her tail, plays in the yard, and sleeps some more. But she loves to retrieve stuff. Tennis balls, stuffed animals, pretty much anything soft. Some thing are just hard wired, and require no further thought or explanation.

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Yup. But my Labrador has absolutely no experience in hunting or retrieving, none. She basically sleeps, wags her tail, plays in the yard, and sleeps some more. But she loves to retrieve stuff. Tennis balls, stuffed animals, pretty much anything soft. Some thing are just hard wired, and require no further thought or explanation.

Good, then don't bitch when a man gets a promotion that you deserve because he is hard wired to be at work and be better than you are.

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Good, then don't bitch when a man gets a promotion that you deserve because he is hard wired to be at work and be better than you are.

You are preaching to the choir. Try decaf.

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You are preaching to the choir. Try decaf.

I did have chocolate cover espresso beans today

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I would hypothesize that Conservatives are generally concerned only with their personal outcome. They would only feel unhappy if they were dealt with unjustly.

A liberal may never be satisfied because the world will always be unfair. Social empathy is a path to disappointment.

From the article (and this will be bad news to Cujo).

According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, conservatives who practice a faith outnumber religious liberals in America nearly four to one. And the link to happiness? You guessed it. Religious participants are nearly twice as likely to say they are very happy about their lives as are secularists (43 percent to 23 percent). The differences don’t depend on education, race, sex or age; the happiness difference exists even when you account for income.

Whether religion and marriage should make people happy is a question you have to answer for yourself. But consider this: Fifty-two percent of married, religious, politically conservative people (with kids) are very happy — versus only 14 percent of single, secular, liberal people without kids.

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That's only because they are reaping he benefits of complying with societal norms :)

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I guess it is a feeling you don't have and that is called empathy. Women get the short end of the stick, would it make me a better person if I just said **** it sucks to be them?

There you go again, exposing your prejudice. I btw am a woman.

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WOW

The far-left progressive leader of the huge SEIU union admits that many or most of her blue-collar members are sympathetic to Donald Trump’s pro-American populist message.

“I am deeply concerned about what is stirring, even in our membership… where our members are responding to Trump’s message,” she told David Axelrod, the chief campaign strategist for President Barack Obama’s election in 2008.

Can you see Trump winning the election? Axelrod asked. “Yea, I could, I could,” said Mary Kay Henry, the international president of the Service Employees International Union.

“Sixty-four percent of our public members identify as conservative, and are much more interested in the Republican debate than the Democratic debate at the moment,” she admitted.

“Our white conservative membership that we hear is responding to Trump’s appeal are more concentrated in the Midwest and the South,” she said. That’s critical, because the GOP candidate must do well in the Midwest to overcome the Democrats’ advantages in the immigration-heavy coastal states. That claim of support is backed up by a recent Democratic survey.

To stomp on Trump’s support, union’s leaders are personally pressuring the members, she said.

“We’re doing one-on-ones with every one of our members right now,” said Henry. “We’re going into hyperdrive, especially in the pockets of our membership that have a lot of Muslim leaders to stand against what is being said” by Trump, she said.

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There you go again, exposing your prejudice. I btw am a woman.

Asking the question did not prove social empathy. Not exactly evidence of prejudice.

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I have merely informed on this forum. Clearly I have not "corrected" anyone. In fact, the only correction that has been made at all was my plural use of "racist".

Yes, you did with comments like "Enjoy your bigotry, it has served you well and will continue to serve you well into the future, but don't ever think that you are a good human being, ok?"

And that too is the definition of righteousness.

"an attribute that implies that a person's actions are justified, and can have the connotation that the person has been "judged" or "reckoned" as leading a life that is pleasing to God."

Or in the case of a secularist liberal, "pleasing to the liberal group think".

I have not changed any minds and I don't suspect that I will. But much of what I said is true whether you believe or not. I did acknowledge my short comings which I believe is the exact opposite of "righteousness". Believing that you have no faults is what 'righteousness" actually is.

And btw I don't think I have ever considered myself as without faults. I just tend to look at life as the cup is always half full while you seem to see it as half empty.

While I probably shouldn't go down this road, I'm pretty sure I am responding to the person who has previously posted under the pseudonym "Perspective".

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I have no argument with this, but socially we are well beyond hunting and gathering. Economic forces are a social construct and are man made. They have no linkage to biology. Many roles in a modern society are not defined by strength and therefor the compensation for those roles should not be based on gender.

Pretty simple in concept but millions of years of gender roles still play a part in a man made construct that bears little resemblance to tribal man.

We may be beyond hunting and gathering, but we still are affected by our hormones.