1. Some of the women – including the female mayor – of a small Northern Italian town have prohibited their husbands from visiting a bar with attractive barmaid. NSFW.
2. After controlling for education, race, age, etc., married men earn 44% more income than single men. How much is causal, and what are the causalities?
3. Hanna Rosin cheers the death of Jan Berenstain, the second half of the couple who wrote the Berenstain Bears series. Rosin despises the puritanical message which, according to Rosin, is devoid of humor. She writes:
The world today brings news that Jan Berenstain, co-author with her husband Stan of the 45 years and running Berenstain Bears series for children, has passed on to a better world. As any right-thinking mother will agree, good riddance.
Delighted at someone’s death; setting up narrow boundaries for what constitutes “right-thinking mothers”; ignoring the fact that the books still exist and will be read by many parents to their children despite the death of the authors. We still read Charles Dickens and Shakespeare, right? So Rosin praises this death, it seems, out of pure spite for the person. Where are the uppity, liberal writers making condemnations of people who actually deserved it: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, etc.? (h/t Ferdinand Bardamu)
4. From 1994, psychiatrist Thomas Szasz on “Socialism in Health Care“.
5. A woman defending mama’s boy’s.
6. Writing in the New York Times, feminist writer throws hissy-fit and goes into autistic meltdown after her husband allows their daughter to buy princess gear. Sounds like PZ Myers.
7. How Waiters Read Your Table. I really need to hunker down and write up something long about the similarities between Game and waiting tables.
8. Whatever the New York Times or Obama shill Ezra Klein tells you, Obama and Co. have not tried to implement the suggestions put forth by the Bowles-Simpson Commission.
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#6- Everytime I read stories like that I practically boil with rage. That bitch rewards her boys’ potty training with princess dolls, *let* (riiiiight) one of them dress as Tinkerbell when he was a toddler, buys the other one pink socks and hoodys, but the moment the little daughter buys a princess toy ZOMG!!!
If “gender role” bias is what she was fighting, she woud let the girl buy and dress however, just as she claims she does for the boys. But of course, we all know the real agenda.
And two boys have to suffer because they are her lab rats/badges of pride. Fuck
Didn’t see it in the article for #2 but do they take expenses into account? Someone who’s married may be making 44% more than I am, but I’m pretty sure their expenses are higher.
Didn’t she write the books decades before her death? Didn’t she retire from writing long earlier?
Hanna Rosin is so drunk with her own delusions of supremacy in womanhood/motherhood that she is a walking gaffe machine.
On #2: I think Trouble is one the right track, married men do have higher expenses than single men. I think what it boils down to is that married men with children are, in general, working a lot harder to climb the corporate ladder to provide their families with the best lifestyle available while single men are a lot more likely to put a higher value on their own free time and comfort level rather than chasing the big bucks.
Hanna Rosin.
I’ll bet some of her fairly close relatives worked for the Cheka and the NKVD.
what’s truly amazing about babble machines like rosin is that her idiocy doesn’t discredit the mags like slate and salon who choose to publish her. in a sane world, she wouldn’t get anywhere near publication in semi-respectable media outlets.
To the contrary, the fact that a walking madness like Rosin gets the press she does is indicative of the sickness, nay, the utter depravity of our media culture in toto.
“Sounds like PZ Myers.”
Heh, I really hope Myers get carried away with the cursing and actually tries that against someone face to face. It’d be nice to see someone get a beatdown for using the rhetoric that chick feminists only get away with because men find it so difficult to hit women.
in a sane world, she wouldn’t get anywhere near publication in semi-respectable media outlets.
Which shows that most women actually want to read this crap. Women believe all sorts of crap if it feeds their fragile egos.
I really hope Myers get carried away with the cursing and actually tries that against someone face to face.
especially since he’s a stout, middle-aged biology professor.
of course married guys make more….
guys who earn more are seen as a “catch” and employers are more likely to fire/lay off a single guy as they won’t feel guilty about taking his livelyhood away but they wouldn’t want to hurt a woman (and possibly children…)
I make a lot more than when I was unmarried, but the difference maker is the kids. It’s a lot harder to take righteous indignation to a “Fuck you, I’m out” conclusion when you have dependents. As those who discussed expenses wrote, a paycheck that would lead to a 5 series and lots of vacations when single goes in a lot of other directions when one has a wife and kids.
The Berenstain Bears are good, if toeing an earlier progressive time.
“After controlling for education, race, age, etc., married men earn 44% more income than single men. How much is causal, and what are the causalities?”
What about self-selection bias? As a single guy, I really don’t feel inclined to take a job that pays more than 20k/year. I’d prefer a lower income simply because taxes are lower (and less of a headache) and because I can stay happy on the cheap. I don’t know if other single guys feel this way, but it seems possible.
Additionally, married guys don’t tend to have this option, given that most women won’t get married to a guy that has little wealth, seeing as how women desire comfort (at least to hear Dave Chapelle tell it). Thus, married men likely feel a strong pressure to have higher-paying jobs, probably in the belief that a woman will stay married to them as long as they’re comfortable.
Beyond that, single guys have more job flexibility (what with not having to worry about uprooting a family if they switch jobs), so they may prize flexibility over pay, which means that their demand will decrease (because what employer wants to cover training costs plus “full” pay if they’re only going to leave 12 months later?), and consequently their price points (i.e. wages).
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So damn accurate. I lulz.
I make less (ceteris paribus) than married guys in my company, and this is the case despite the fact that I’m a bonafide decision maker on who gets paid what.
A married guy making what I’m making would likely take off the first time a better offer came along (because income is priority one for him), hence in order to retain a married guy, you’ve gotta pay him more.
A single guy is going to come and go according to his own reasons, which may or may not be money related. Generally speaking i wouldn’t make the same offer to a single guy because I know money isn’t nearly the make or break issue for him as for the married guy. (for me, I’m betting on the come, so i’m ok with a relatively low pay)
Over the long run, I’d expect single guys to go one of two directions in a career: 1) be your own boss (me); or 2) do enough to get buy without investing more than is necessary in a job.
Neither of these direction is, shall we say, income maximizing (inasmuch as the downside of being your own boss is you can’t really argue with yourself about getting a raise when there’s no money in the bank). Married guys are, generally speaking, income maximizers, hence it’s no surprise that they make more than single guys.
“7. How Waiters Read Your Table. I really need to hunker down and write up something long about the similarities between Game and waiting tables.”
This sounds like a great idea.
I read some of the Berenstein Bears books to 1st and 2nd grade kids some years back, and i didn’t like them. I forget just what it was; likely something about less respect for Papa Bear.
The upper half in IQ and income marry in contemporary America, the lower half don’t nearly as much. I’d guess that the “controlling for” was flawed.