So I'm watching TV and start seeing commercials for some new injustice called the pink tax.
Sure. Make it sound like it's some institutionalized/systemic/patriarchal policy that the ever-male-dominated Congress has signed into law under Trump or some such rot.
As it goes, the notion is that women spend $1351 a year, typically, more than men do on personal stuff like bath products and underwear.
They complain that it's not fair, insulting. Sounds unjust, doesn't it?
Funny. A few months ago, I was hearing all about how the fragile male ego forced me to buy deodorant that didn't have pink teddy bears on them. Now I'm hearing that, while we're all buying the exact same thing, the stuff with pink teddy bears is more expensive.
Maybe we're just being frugal.
I've seen women's bathrooms and you've seen men's bathrooms, so we both know "we buy the same stuff" is a lie. I see cream rinse in some showers, none used solely by men, and I have no idea what it's for because I choose not to buy it and don't need to.
Are the pink teddy bears exactly the same as the blue ones? Then buy the blue ones. You can choose to. No one is putting a gun to your head, or threatening jail time as if this were a real tax.
I mean, how do you think you're going to "repeal" it when it's not actually a tax on just the stuff you want? It's just you buying more, and more expensive, stuff. How do you think you can fix that without destroying everything else? You’re talking changing prices by force of law, interfering with buying patterns, controlling what bathroom products are made and sold.
That’s going to cost society more than $1351 a head. And I don't mean just in the pocketbook.
Sure. Make it sound like it's some institutionalized/systemic/patriarchal policy that the ever-male-dominated Congress has signed into law under Trump or some such rot.
As it goes, the notion is that women spend $1351 a year, typically, more than men do on personal stuff like bath products and underwear.
They complain that it's not fair, insulting. Sounds unjust, doesn't it?
Funny. A few months ago, I was hearing all about how the fragile male ego forced me to buy deodorant that didn't have pink teddy bears on them. Now I'm hearing that, while we're all buying the exact same thing, the stuff with pink teddy bears is more expensive.
Maybe we're just being frugal.
I've seen women's bathrooms and you've seen men's bathrooms, so we both know "we buy the same stuff" is a lie. I see cream rinse in some showers, none used solely by men, and I have no idea what it's for because I choose not to buy it and don't need to.
Are the pink teddy bears exactly the same as the blue ones? Then buy the blue ones. You can choose to. No one is putting a gun to your head, or threatening jail time as if this were a real tax.
I mean, how do you think you're going to "repeal" it when it's not actually a tax on just the stuff you want? It's just you buying more, and more expensive, stuff. How do you think you can fix that without destroying everything else? You’re talking changing prices by force of law, interfering with buying patterns, controlling what bathroom products are made and sold.
That’s going to cost society more than $1351 a head. And I don't mean just in the pocketbook.
