Comedy Festival Will Charge White Men More To Fight The Wage Gap

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2016-02-25 02:25

Article here. Excerpt:

'An upcoming comedy festival in New York City is charging different rates for attendees in an apparent effort to check the privilege of straight white men.

The Cinderblock Comedy Festival will be held Sept. 15-18 in the hipster stronghold of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. With the festivities just seven months away, organizers are already urging potential performers to apply to perform.

But the festival has one very notable policy: Currently, only women, non-whites and those who identify as LGBT are allowed to apply for an early-bird price of $19.25. Straight white men, on the other hand, will only be allowed to apply starting March 15, and they’ll have to pay $25 to do so.

Festival director Coree Spencer said the discount was intended to closely match the oft-quoted and oft-criticized statistic that women earn just 77 percent of what men earn.'

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Oh, goodie! This ridiculous logic again. Poor women, victims of their own life choices, many of which men don't get.

How about this:
Seeing that women only pay about 25 percent of taxes, but get far far far far more government benefits than men, they should have to pay more. (I'm not really advocating this, just pointing out how stupid it is to think this way, even if the gender gap were due to discrimination)

It is ironic though, seeing that it is a comedy festival, and their reasoning for being gender and racial bigots is absolutely laughable.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Thu, 2016-02-25 22:27

Let's hope white men everywhere just don't go to the event. I'm sure everyone will be more than happy if none of you attend. I'm gay, so I'm ok to go, but I won't in solidarity.

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Submitted by mistermisogynist on Sat, 2016-02-27 20:30