Day #2 Challenge

"Challenge: you tell me how to fix the gender wage gap and I'll do your dare on ig..."

A key aspect of this project is about creating rhetoric and discourse around feminist ideas and issues. Talking about these issues with men in real life is hard. It's so hard that sometimes I cant even get my bro, dad, or guy friends to see eye to eye with me. Gaslighting gets in the way. And theres no incentive for them to engage in a meaningful way. So, creating rhetoric under the context of these posts (anonymity of internet, sexual favors, fun, sexy, public account) could open up a really different dialogue.

I wrote an Op-Ed last year about the gender wage gap. My (male) writing professor really loved it. It was titled "Unethical Problem Solving for an Issue of Ethics: The Gender Pay Gap". The thesis read, "To effectively fight the gender wage gap, we need a new, more practical strategy. We must offer corporations the promise of something they want more than anything else: profit". I went on to write about how data has shown that more females on executive boards lead to better company success, thus higher revenue. I used the racist Kodak case study to prove my point (the NYTimes wrote an article about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/sarah-lewis-racial-bias-photography.html). Basically what happened was that during the 1960's Kodak's film technology created beautiful color balanced pictures of white folks and shitty prints of black folks that distorted their skin color. This was clearly an issue, but Kodak didn't change a thing until CHOCOLATE COMPANIES AND FURNITURE COMPANIES STARTED COMPLAINING ABOUT THE TONES OF BROWN IN THEIR ADVERTISEMENTS. The lesson to learn is that shit does not change unless there is $$$ incentive. No one gives a fuck about anyone else. Although this is a negative, pessimistic approach, it is a realistic one.

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see what men think about this...