Socializing the Man Tax

[TalkingDog]

http://www.schmiral.com/the-dangers-of-being-a-man/

If everybody paid for insurance, materials and products according to statistical analysis, men would not be able to afford to live. So women bear the cost by socializing it.

Just a thought

[Billy Burnett]

1. I got a much better deal than my wife on the same car!

Good thing that I give her :loveya: all of my money! :+

[Lilith Velkor]

2. Ha!

[customerserviceguy]

3. If the proportion of men and women were equal

in blue collar occupations, I'd bet a lot of these statistical differences would almost disappear.

[TalkingDog]

4. Hmmm...in reading the post, I'm not sure how many of those listed

are related to blue collar jobs

[customerserviceguy]

5. Certainly, that third panel down

involving ladders and construction workers was what I had in mind. You can say the same thing about the next panel down, you just simply have many more men in maintenance positions than you do women. Other panels refer to tool use, which is predominantly by men.

As far as distracted driving goes, I'd bet there are probably more traffic fatalities involving cell phones and women than there are men doing the same thing.

[TalkingDog]

6. Women don't use tools? Define tools.

Oh, you mean those things that aren't what you don't define as tools like...say...stoves or washing machines or telephones or...yes...cars.

Do you mean power tools? Or hand tools? Say...screwdrivers, hammers, crescent wrenches, socket wrenches.

I don't know the women you hang around with, but in the past I taught 3-D design to classes that are consistently and predominantly women. Any college where a woman takes a sculpture class (or ceramics or painting)is going to involve tools. The women I know all use hand and power tools on a consistence basis, so perhaps your limited view of the world creates a false impression of how prevalent the practice is.

That said, women taking classes that involve tool use is a limited number of people. And yes, many people in facility maintenance are men.

As for the driving statistics, I won't argue with the actual facts. Insurance for men for all ages is much higher. Now why would that be?
If your argument is so flimsy that you need to buttress it with an example using one small segment of the population, I'd suggest you are showing your hand.



For a real eye opener, read the MAN TAX, it might expand your world view a bit. Written waaaay back in the early 90's when women all wore aprons and knew their place. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/77544111.html?dids=77544111:77544111&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+31,+1992&author=THE+ASSOCIATED+PRESS&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Book:+`Crime+is+Male,'+So+Raise+Their+Taxes&pqatl=google

[customerserviceguy]

7. If we sized up the danger levels

between construction tools (which some women do use) and household appliances, can't you honestly admit that the construction tools are less safe, by far? Citing telephones is goofy, nobody gets injured using them.

This just looks like man bashing to me, and I'm calling it accordingly.

[Jamastiene]

8. Correction: You said, "Citing telephones is goofy, nobody gets injured using them."

At least one person a year gets injured, if not always killed, using the telephone...due to lightning.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/phone.asp

It is not man bashing to point out that women do work with tools, some of them, yes, dangerous, too. We are just more careful.

[customerserviceguy]

15. OK, yes, some crazy offbeat stuff happens

even with telephones. But can you not acknowledge that the average power tool sold at Home Depot is inherently more dangerous than any telephone?

I guess I just have a problem with anything that says, "My societal group is subsidizing your societal group." We're society, we should ideally share risks.

[tkmorris]

9. Did you actually take that link seriously?

[Blue-Jay]

10. .

[Confusious]

11. I'm pretty sure that's bullshit

Left-handed tools? As someone who's changed an engine and a transmission, and works on a car all the time, I don't think I've seen a right handed tool.

Actually, I think it's also a tool joke. "Bring me the left-handed crescent wrench" is a joke on noobs.

[Jamastiene]

16. I have a pair of left handed scissors.

For real. I also did have a left handed fishing rod until it burned up in the shed fire this weekend. Some tools are left handed. I don't think I've ever seen a power tool that was left handed though.

[Confusious]

18. Well, left handed scissors I can see.

Power tools, wrenches, there are just damn few. Most of them, you have to use two hands.

[HALO141]

12. BAH!

It's only more dangers being a man BECAUSE OF WOMEN!

Examples:
1) "Men are 2.1 times more likely to be poisoned than women." - Well DUH! Who the hell do you think is poisoning them in the first place! The only reason the women are getting poisoned at all is because they FORGET they poisoned the meal and keep taste testing while cooking!

2) All those construction deaths - Pshaw! If it wasn't for women's honey-do lists we wouldn't be doing that crap in the first place. We'd be on the sofa, watching Sports Center.

3) Distraction - Self explanatory.

I could go on but I think I've made my point. :rofl:

[Confusious]

13. 3) Distraction - Self explanatory.

Makeup? Shaving pubes while heading for a date? Women just as much.

[Jamastiene]

17. I have actually heard men say they'd still be in caves

happily living in caves, might I add, if it wasn't for the honey-do lists. :rofl:

[Romulox]

14. OP is not terribly well thought out... nt