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Let us Now Praise Deep Thinking by the Difficult Right

There is more good news coming from the Difficult Wing of the Republican Party.  (I prefer not to call them the Hard Right, particularly when dealing with sexual subjects such as salary and wages.)

I know that many of you had supposed that Phyllis Schlafly had died and gone to her eternal reward, but that is not so, and may never be so.  Ms. Schlafly who, now that I think of it, may prefer not to be called Ms., but now it is too late--it is down in print--says that equal pay for equal work will deter women's chances to find suitable mates, and what does that mean?  It means that there will be a lot more talented and capable women, with money of their own, on the market!  Leave it to Ms. Schlafly to find good news in all of this ugliness about discrimination against women, and unfair advantage for men, and hard right pay scales!  There will be more women loose on the sidewalks, walking around in better clothes, unable to marry the kind of men they want to marry, because the kind of men they want to marry kind of don't want a woman who earns too much money, which is to say, as much as a man doing the same work that she does.

And we all know that determined women like that are not going to say to hell with it, and stay single; not for long!  They will have to marry common dolts who are incapable of thinking through the implications of treating women like equals:  men like most of us men!  There will be more women with more money for good, decent dolts like us!

I almost hate to say this, but maybe somebody should be paying Phyllis Schlafly more than most of the men of the Difficult Right Wing of the Party.  She has thought about these things.  She says men don't want to marry women who earn more money than they:  men just want to earn more money than anybody they marry.  Now I think she is wrong about that, because everybody knows that paychecks are not what men think about first when they think of women.  In fact, men do not have a long list of things they think about when they think of women.  Men are simple critters.  They think of . . . well, I have never heard men . . . men think of . . . even difficult men on the Hard Right Wing of the Party. . . .  oh, maybe money might come up later--Ms. Schlafly may be right about that--but I do believe that even those of us who stumble into relationships with capable women will find a way to live with our humiliation.  And I hope Ms. Schlafly is right about something else she says!  She also says that the best way to empower women is to give the men a pay raise!  The way to empower women "is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap".  

Let us hear it for Ms. Schlafly!  

Most women are so short-sighted!  Equal pay for equal work!  What would empower those women is right there in their paychecks, and they do not see it!  Phyllis sees right through all of this!  While unempowered women were complaining about sexual discrimination, Phyllis was thinking, hard, the Right Way!  The way to help women is to raise wages for men!  

Can you see now, why we owe so much to Ms. Schlafly?  That kind of thinking does not come cheaply!  We all have to pay for it!  Don't we?

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