"Patricia Arquette’s ‘Make Believe’ on Women and Equal Pay" - Genevieve Wood / @genevievewood / February 23, 2015 / http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/23/patricia-arquettes-make-believe-on-women-and-equal-pay/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoiuqvKZKXonjHpfsX56eguXa%2B3lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ERcpqI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
[NOTE: This article is a follow-up to yesterday's post #1153. If you've not read it, you will find some incredible truths revealed. Please check it out. AS I SEE IT - The diatribe referred to below was even read like the reader was given a script by the National Organization for Women. I also found it ironic that the 2 ladies in the audience shown to be cheering most for the speech was a recording star (in her dress costing thousands of dollars) and an actress who were probably among the highest paid people in the country. Were they so supportive because somehow a male colleague lived in a $20 million dollar house while they only lived in a $15 million house? Just wondering. (: - Stan]
The political diatribe from actress Patricia Arquette about “equal pay” during the Oscars showed Hollywood’s talents for “story-telling” and “make believe” are alive and well. Sadly, instead of a passionate speech filled with facts, Arquette followed the same old left-wing script that just doesn’t measure up to the truth. Audiences deserve better.
Interested in more details? Here’s some from my 2014 column on the so-called “wage gap” between men and women:
1. How many cents on the dollar? When you compare women and men who are doing the same job and have similar educational backgrounds and experience, the wage gap all but disappears. The whole “women make 77 cents for every dollar men make,” line, no matter how many times the Left says it, is absolutely false when you compare apples to apples.
2. Women who earn more. Twenty-something women without children, living in metropolitan areas, earn 8 percent more on average than their male counterparts, according to 2008 Census data. This is not surprising, since they’re better educated than their male counterparts.
3. No educational gap. More women than men are attending and graduating from college today, and they are receiving the majority of associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees.
4. Women making choices. When it comes to college majors, women and men choose different areas of study. Not all areas of study have the same earning power. According to a Georgetown University report, of the top 10 most profitable majors, men greatly outnumber women in all but one. Among the 10 least profitable majors, women outnumber men. Want to make more? Major in petroleum engineering. Want to make less? Major in visual and performing arts. Women and men are both free to choose either path. Obviously, they have different preferences.
5. Need to borrow a dollar? The number of wealthy women in the U.S. is growing twice as fast as the number of wealthy men. And some estimate that by 2030, women will control as much as two-thirds of the nation’s wealth.
Democrats clearly think the best way to motivate women is to continue to have them believe they are under assault—that the “war on women” rages on. But the fact is that President Obama’s policies have left Democrats with little choice: Due to Obamacare and other misguided policies, fewer Americans either have, or are looking for, jobs than at any point since 1978. That’s bad for women and men. Equal pay rhetoric means nothing to people who can’t get a job in the first place.
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Genevieve Wood advances policy priorities of The Heritage Foundation as senior contributor to The Daily Signal.
"My Comments On the Oscar Ceremony"- Stan
As there was nothing in this years awards ceremony that interested me, I originally sought to watch a movie about America's elite Seal Team warriors on another channel. However, my curiosity got to me and I ended up going back and forth between that great movie ("Act of Valor") and the awards. The following are my comments on what I viewed:
1) There were 3 highlights for me. The first was the unexpected performance by Tim McGraw of Glenn Campbell's farewell song to his daughters as he slips into Alzheimers; it was the most moving moment of the evening for me. I also found the screenwriter who shared about his suicide attempt at 16 to be quite moving. The best highlight for me, though, was the performance by Lady Gaga (known for her flamboyant outfits) saluting the 50th year since "Sound of Music"won best picture. On a personal note, the movie was the ONLY movie my parents and brother ever went to see. Because my father didn't speak English (and there were no subtitles when we saw it), it was a special occasion I will always remember the movie with fondness. But as spectacular as the perfomance was (go to: http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/02/23/genius-glenn-was-blown-away-by-lady-gagas-oscar-performance/) I was emotionally moved when it's star actress Julie Anrews walked onto the stage. That was a lasting memory for me.
2) The rest of the program was filled with low-lights.
a) For me, the host's at humor was continually pathetic was continually pathetic, highlighted by his appearance on stage dressed only in underwear briefs (to recreate a scene from the movie that eventually won for best picture). It seemed obvious the audience felt more embarrassed than entertained. It was probably more so as the host is an open homosxual. I'm sure that this attempt at comedy didn't go over well among the Muslims in the world who might have been watching among the estimated one billion world-wide audience.
b) The liberal rants by several recipients - though expected at Hollywood ceremonies - was truly tiresome. As noted by this article, they tend to be full of misinformation or outright lies in order to present a slanted viewpoint.
c) When seen in the context of the audience filled with individuals who in some cases have a net worth of several billion dollars, to see them give their loudest praise for the speech about women suffering from unequal pay most outlandish.
d) While I appreciated those who played roles that highlighted those suffering from Alzheimer's and ALS pleading for more research to be done for those diseases, I kept waiting for one of the presenters to volunteer to donates their gift bag remuneration towards those causes. (Did you know that one of those bags contained gifts worth around $160,000?! (That's about what I paid for my house!) Did any recipient somehow need that for themselves?) Being liberal in their political views, I can only assume they only see the government providing such money.
e) I have to ask how they decided the winner for best picture was the best. It is really hard to find someone who has actually seen the movie. You have to wonder if the anti-military bias of so many of the political left in Hollywood made it easy for them to be dismissive of the movie "American Sniper," which has grossed over $400 billion in ticket sales, more than any other war movie in history.
and f)The absence of any recipient actually thanking God was not surprising but continues to be disappointing. It's hard to remember that there used to be a time when people expressed their thanks to God - if but in a perfunctory way. You have to wonder if God has left Hollywood as much as it seems to now ignore Him.
[NOTE: This article is a follow-up to yesterday's post #1153. If you've not read it, you will find some incredible truths revealed. Please check it out. AS I SEE IT - The diatribe referred to below was even read like the reader was given a script by the National Organization for Women. I also found it ironic that the 2 ladies in the audience shown to be cheering most for the speech was a recording star (in her dress costing thousands of dollars) and an actress who were probably among the highest paid people in the country. Were they so supportive because somehow a male colleague lived in a $20 million dollar house while they only lived in a $15 million house? Just wondering. (: - Stan]
The political diatribe from actress Patricia Arquette about “equal pay” during the Oscars showed Hollywood’s talents for “story-telling” and “make believe” are alive and well. Sadly, instead of a passionate speech filled with facts, Arquette followed the same old left-wing script that just doesn’t measure up to the truth. Audiences deserve better.
Interested in more details? Here’s some from my 2014 column on the so-called “wage gap” between men and women:
1. How many cents on the dollar? When you compare women and men who are doing the same job and have similar educational backgrounds and experience, the wage gap all but disappears. The whole “women make 77 cents for every dollar men make,” line, no matter how many times the Left says it, is absolutely false when you compare apples to apples.
2. Women who earn more. Twenty-something women without children, living in metropolitan areas, earn 8 percent more on average than their male counterparts, according to 2008 Census data. This is not surprising, since they’re better educated than their male counterparts.
3. No educational gap. More women than men are attending and graduating from college today, and they are receiving the majority of associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees.
4. Women making choices. When it comes to college majors, women and men choose different areas of study. Not all areas of study have the same earning power. According to a Georgetown University report, of the top 10 most profitable majors, men greatly outnumber women in all but one. Among the 10 least profitable majors, women outnumber men. Want to make more? Major in petroleum engineering. Want to make less? Major in visual and performing arts. Women and men are both free to choose either path. Obviously, they have different preferences.
5. Need to borrow a dollar? The number of wealthy women in the U.S. is growing twice as fast as the number of wealthy men. And some estimate that by 2030, women will control as much as two-thirds of the nation’s wealth.
Democrats clearly think the best way to motivate women is to continue to have them believe they are under assault—that the “war on women” rages on. But the fact is that President Obama’s policies have left Democrats with little choice: Due to Obamacare and other misguided policies, fewer Americans either have, or are looking for, jobs than at any point since 1978. That’s bad for women and men. Equal pay rhetoric means nothing to people who can’t get a job in the first place.
[bold, italics, and colored emphasis mine]
Genevieve Wood advances policy priorities of The Heritage Foundation as senior contributor to The Daily Signal.
"My Comments On the Oscar Ceremony"- Stan
As there was nothing in this years awards ceremony that interested me, I originally sought to watch a movie about America's elite Seal Team warriors on another channel. However, my curiosity got to me and I ended up going back and forth between that great movie ("Act of Valor") and the awards. The following are my comments on what I viewed:
1) There were 3 highlights for me. The first was the unexpected performance by Tim McGraw of Glenn Campbell's farewell song to his daughters as he slips into Alzheimers; it was the most moving moment of the evening for me. I also found the screenwriter who shared about his suicide attempt at 16 to be quite moving. The best highlight for me, though, was the performance by Lady Gaga (known for her flamboyant outfits) saluting the 50th year since "Sound of Music"won best picture. On a personal note, the movie was the ONLY movie my parents and brother ever went to see. Because my father didn't speak English (and there were no subtitles when we saw it), it was a special occasion I will always remember the movie with fondness. But as spectacular as the perfomance was (go to: http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/02/23/genius-glenn-was-blown-away-by-lady-gagas-oscar-performance/) I was emotionally moved when it's star actress Julie Anrews walked onto the stage. That was a lasting memory for me.
2) The rest of the program was filled with low-lights.
a) For me, the host's at humor was continually pathetic was continually pathetic, highlighted by his appearance on stage dressed only in underwear briefs (to recreate a scene from the movie that eventually won for best picture). It seemed obvious the audience felt more embarrassed than entertained. It was probably more so as the host is an open homosxual. I'm sure that this attempt at comedy didn't go over well among the Muslims in the world who might have been watching among the estimated one billion world-wide audience.
b) The liberal rants by several recipients - though expected at Hollywood ceremonies - was truly tiresome. As noted by this article, they tend to be full of misinformation or outright lies in order to present a slanted viewpoint.
c) When seen in the context of the audience filled with individuals who in some cases have a net worth of several billion dollars, to see them give their loudest praise for the speech about women suffering from unequal pay most outlandish.
d) While I appreciated those who played roles that highlighted those suffering from Alzheimer's and ALS pleading for more research to be done for those diseases, I kept waiting for one of the presenters to volunteer to donates their gift bag remuneration towards those causes. (Did you know that one of those bags contained gifts worth around $160,000?! (That's about what I paid for my house!) Did any recipient somehow need that for themselves?) Being liberal in their political views, I can only assume they only see the government providing such money.
e) I have to ask how they decided the winner for best picture was the best. It is really hard to find someone who has actually seen the movie. You have to wonder if the anti-military bias of so many of the political left in Hollywood made it easy for them to be dismissive of the movie "American Sniper," which has grossed over $400 billion in ticket sales, more than any other war movie in history.
and f)The absence of any recipient actually thanking God was not surprising but continues to be disappointing. It's hard to remember that there used to be a time when people expressed their thanks to God - if but in a perfunctory way. You have to wonder if God has left Hollywood as much as it seems to now ignore Him.
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