Women pay more for everyday items. Gender Price Gap. GOTDAMN!!

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It's less about women have to pay twice as much as it is that women are willing to pay twice as much.

When no one buys something because it's too expensive, the price drops until they do.
Women's shoes cost $300 because they keep buying $300 shoes.
Men's shoes cost $100 because anything more than that and they look for shoes that cost only $100.


From what I hear from the higher end of salaries, like for actors and actresses, man actors get paid more. But the problem there is usually that they're competing against being replaced with a younger unknown actor whose hungry for a bite of fame. If they lose money on a bad performance guarantee, they make it up in the lesser pay.

Having lived in the lower end (minimum wage), these kinds of jobs required me to work twice as hard for equal pay. When a woman felt like she couldn't do a job, she stopped working until a man did it for her. I recently witnessed three women failing (or slowly succeeding) at a near-simple job that would have taken only one man to accomplish. (Putting some old TV on a trolly thing.)
At minimum wage, my job was to move all the heavy stuff and burn out all my energy. The women get to stand around the cashier. On a slow day, they just gossip to one another.



But I've only got a perceptive of a male and I've got a pretty neutral disposition on politics. Everyone can find their own problems with any system.
 

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I mean in a sense yeah. For one, clothing for women tend to horribly exploit their 10 million jean styles that don't actually mean shit. This goes for makeup and general 'for women' products.

Also we have to periodically pay for bras, tampons/pads, Tylenol for menstrual cycles, and more underwear when we inevitably coat our undies in blood because of mishaps.
 

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Parasondox said:
What do you all think? Yeah, handbags are expensive. Make my wallet cry and depressed expensive.
I've been around for a few decades and I still haven't understood why anyone would burden herself with such a big cumbersome shit like a handbag. Just use your pockets, trousers and jackets have them for a reason.
You know there is a running joke among us that states that 'pockets' don't exist on womens' clothing.
 

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Also we have to periodically pay for....Tylenol for menstrual cycles.
Nit picking like hell but I don't there's a person in the western hemisphere that doesn't consume paracetamol like smarties. I would go as far it to be the second biggest cause for liver damage....Maybe thirdish, I don't really know the popularity of co-codamol these days.
 

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mad825 said:
Dragonbums said:
Also we have to periodically pay for....Tylenol for menstrual cycles.
Nit picking like hell
If you are, then so would I.

mad825 said:
I don't [think] there's a person in the western hemisphere that doesn't consume paracetamol like smarties.
If that is your statement, then, I'm in the western hemisphere (if only just) and I do not. In fact, from the people I know around here quite a lot do not do that, either. More like, most people I know.
 

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infohippie said:
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Market forces and sexism aren't mutually exclusive. It may well be because of market forces that a company chooses to charge more for products aimed at women, but that doesn't stop it being sexist.

And yes, I can think of reverse examples of the problem as well, like how men are still often paying more for car insurance than women - an imbalance that was supposed to have been resolved by EU regulation.
My understanding was that men get charged more for insurance because statistically they tend to get into accidents more often then women. Sexist and discriminatory, I guess, but so is basically the rest of the insurance process. It's literally based around charging you based on how likely your demographic is to screw up.
Not quite. From the statistics I've read about, apparently women tend to have MUCH more frequent accidents than men, but their accidents are usually small and at low speeds. They'll dent the bumper, scratch the side panel, break a headlight. Men, on the other hand, are much more likely to have no claims at all for years or decades, and then wipe out taking a corner at high speed, writing off the car completely, as well as someone else's car too, and probably causing a permanent injury or two. So while women may make claims much more often, men will cost the insurance company far more.
Clearly we should make it illegal to charge men and women different amounts for car insurance. Sure it'll raise women's rates, but that way it's more equal.

You know, like we do health insurance in the US where it's illegal to charge men and women different amounts for the same coverage, and coverage of pregnancy and of all forms of contraception for women (literally all, including barrier methods, so long as they can get a prescription written for it), and women are the cause of more medical expenses besides. As a single man buying coverage for only myself, that means that I'm paying more to subsidize things for women including things that I can't even theoretically benefit from, but that's OK because equality.
 

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mad825 said:
Dragonbums said:
Also we have to periodically pay for....Tylenol for menstrual cycles.
Nit picking like hell but I don't there's a person in the western hemisphere that doesn't consume paracetamol like smarties. I would go as far it to be the second biggest cause for liver damage....Maybe thirdish, I don't really know the popularity of co-codamol these days.
Oh no, definitely not, but if you have menstrual cramps like mine- for the entire week, if I'm not at least taking two Tyenols (or Ipuprofen) every 6 hours on the dot or your going to have a REALLY shitty couple of hours. ( At one point the pain got so bad I puked and dry heaved for a good total of 4 hours before the meds kicked in.)
Thank fuck that Tyenol is pretty plentiful per bottle because women (unless they are the no meds, hardcore pain tolerance types.) probably spend more on the stuff than the average person without chronic pains.
 

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Dragonbums said:
( At one point the pain got so bad I puked and dry heaved for a good total of 4 hours before the meds kicked in.)
Thank fuck that Tyenol is pretty plentiful per bottle because women (unless they are the no meds, hardcore pain tolerance types.) probably spend more on the stuff than the average person without chronic pains.
O.O
....You know what, once pain becomes that bad...It's gonna take more than OTCs to keep me satiated.
 

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Odbarc said:
When no one buys something because it's too expensive, the price drops until they do.
In an ideal market, yes, but there isn't one. Sometimes if nobody will buy something the company will stop making it, even if lowering the price was a viable option, because they don't deem it a worthwhile venture with a smaller margin. Sometimes if something doesn't sell, a bullheaded company will just keep the price where it is, because they're either unaware or unwilling to let stock go for less.
 

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mad825 said:
Dragonbums said:
( At one point the pain got so bad I puked and dry heaved for a good total of 4 hours before the meds kicked in.)
Thank fuck that Tyenol is pretty plentiful per bottle because women (unless they are the no meds, hardcore pain tolerance types.) probably spend more on the stuff than the average person without chronic pains.
O.O
....You know what, once pain becomes that bad...It's gonna take more than OTCs to keep me satiated.
I always found it funny that when people joke about women and periods the idea behind the joke is that the woman's hormones are making her moody. But for some women periods can be pretty painful. There are a ton of random side effects associated with periods that pretty much make it so that the woman may as well be sick. And sick people can get pretty moody. I mean yeah for some women its her hormones, for others she has a migraine, or cramps, or mucle soreness and to top it of she's bleeding. So fuck yeah she's moody cuz she still has to go to work but would rather be at home hopped up on pain meds and wrapped in an electric blanket.
 

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mecegirl said:
mad825 said:
Dragonbums said:
( At one point the pain got so bad I puked and dry heaved for a good total of 4 hours before the meds kicked in.)
Thank fuck that Tyenol is pretty plentiful per bottle because women (unless they are the no meds, hardcore pain tolerance types.) probably spend more on the stuff than the average person without chronic pains.
O.O
....You know what, once pain becomes that bad...It's gonna take more than OTCs to keep me satiated.
I always found it funny that when people joke about women and periods the idea behind the joke is that the woman's hormones are making her moody. But for some women periods can be pretty painful. There are a ton of random side effects associated with periods that pretty much make it so that the woman may as well be sick. And sick people can get pretty moody. I mean yeah for some women its her hormones, for others she has a migraine, or cramps, or mucle soreness and to top it of she's bleeding. So fuck yeah she's moody cuz she still has to go to work but would rather be at home hopped up on pain meds and wrapped in an electric blanket.
I'd take mood swings over cramp pains any day of the week. Although I heard that's technically not natural and might mean I have endo- something illness where the wrong type of lining is being created.

But yeah I got the most painful ones with the worst flows. So for me on my periods I just feel kind of dirty all day and in the mood for not doing anything. I ALWAYS remember to carry an extra dose on me in case it wears out half way at a place I can't get it.
So fucking lay it on me you know. I'll take my Ibuprofen and Tyenol (at responsible intervals) if it keeps it at bay.

But at the end of the day I don't really act any more irrational or shitty to the rest of society. I can keep it totally under control, and unless we specifically state we are on our period most people won't fucking know. So that stereotype is kind of annoying. Like really annoying. Most people wouldn't be in the best of moods when a part of your body is shedding and it feels like someone is taking a fist inside your vagina and playing morbid putty with it.