Should March 8 be A Day Without Men Day?

[wolfpup]

@LinusK

I’ve always thought putting people on “ignore” was childish.

What about being a brain-dead moronic troll who can’t stop himself from starting three consecutive threads on the same stupid topic, who finally gets a warning for being an insufferable asshole?

[QuickSilver]

@LinusK

No thanks.

Edit: Also, you’re a pedophile.

Fuck off, troll.

[LinusK]

@QuickSilver

Fuck off, troll.

It’s easy to make unsupported accusations, isn’t it?

[LinusK]

@jz78817

I was being sarcastic.

jeez.

and here I was amused that LinusK feigned ignorance.

Feigned ignorance? You accuse me of being feigned?
Unsupported allegations everywhere.

[wolfpup]

I think it’s time to nominate this thread as another hugely successful LinusK effort which, as always, has added fantastic value to the board and enriched our lives. With LinusK, it never fails!

[QuickSilver]

@LinusK

It’s easy to make unsupported accusations, isn’t it?

You’re a troll. Your OP is my cite.

[Sunny_Daze]

@LinusK

Feigned ignorance? You accuse me of being feigned?
Unsupported allegations everywhere.

You started the same thread 3 times. Yes, you are feigning.

[Covfefe]

@LinusK

No answer so I googled: one is a reference to the movie “The Matrix” (which is a pretty good movie - the first one I mean). The other is to this. On Reddit, no less.

Oh, look what I found when I googled it.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18807758&postcount=456

[Little_Nemo]

Here’s my prediction; the only men who will participate in this farce will be useless whiners whose absence would normally be enjoyed by the rest of us. The only problem will be that they’re going to spend all day posting on the internet.

[Sunny_Daze]

@yezlles

Oh, look what I found when I googled it.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18807758&postcount=456

What was that word again? Oh yeah, feigning. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@LinusK

Feigned ignorance? You accuse me of being feigned?

For what it’s worth, I think your ignorance is genuine.

[LinusK]

@Bryan_Ekers

For what it’s worth, I think your ignorance is genuine.

Thank you.

[LinusK]

@wolfpup

I think it’s time to nominate this thread as another hugely successful LinusK effort which, as always, has added fantastic value to the board and enriched our lives. With LinusK, it never fails!

Well, in my defense, I’m not the one who put it in the pit.

Who knows what would have happened otherwise?

[dropzone]

It would have been locked and you would have been warned.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@LinusK

Thank you.

And it’s also a lot more deeply-ingrained than you may be aware.

[Sunny_Daze]

@dropzone

It would have been locked and you would have been warned.

One out of two ain’t bad.

[Velocity]

All rhetoric aside, all men taking a day off from work would likely have a substantially larger impact on the nation and economy than all women taking a day off from work.

[Malleus_Incus_Stapes]

On the bright side, this thread is a break from the 8,926 other Pit threads on He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Toupee’d; it’s nice to have a change of topic.

[Sunny_Daze]

(way to bring the Pit down with an actual discussion Velocity :p)

There actually not a lot of good data out there. What I can find is older. This NBC News story from 2011 references Bureau of Labor Statistics and states that:

Women are now the backbone of the U.S. economy. About 60 percent of them work, and they comprise 46 percent of the labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Women now occupy 51 percent of managerial and professional jobs, up from 26 percent in 1980. More women are graduating from college than men. Seventy-five percent of women say they make the shopping decisions, so they’re the consumers too.

And like Shah, 40 percent of working women are the primary breadwinners for their families.

Cite

Think Progress reports some additional numbers from a story on a report from the Center for American Progress from 2014, including the data point that “women’s contribution to GDP also translates to more than $1.7 trillion in greater output.”

In 1979, the typical woman worked just 925 hours each year outside of the home. That figure nearly doubled by 2007 to 1,820 hours before declining slightly after the crisis. “That is, the median annual hours worked by women increased 739 hours between 1979 and 2012,” the report says, with all of the increase happening by 2000. If women instead kept working at the same rate as in 1979, their hours would be about 10.6 percent lower, thus decreasing GDP. Today, the majority of women and mothers work and many work full time. The share women working full time, year round jumped from about 29 percent in 1979 to 43.6 percent in 2007. The numbers dipped slightly after the recession, but even at that point, women were 12 percentage points more likely to work full time all year in 2012 than they were in 1979.

Cite

I think you can only take certain parts of this statement to be true:

@Velocity

All rhetoric aside, all men taking a day off from work would likely have a substantially larger impact on the nation and economy than all women taking a day off from work.

-Economic impact from work will be greater for men than women = true, given higher presence of men and given wage disparity looking only at working men and working women (I’m not sure that it’s “substantial” any longer)
-Overall economic impact on the nation, if you look at all that women contribute, including housework and most importantly childcare, is likely to be greater if women take the day off from all of their duties

[John_DiFool]

@LinusK

What’s a red pill?

I think it’s safe to say that this was the loudest whoosh in the history of the board. I mean, we’re talking about a full squadron of B-1’s all busting through the sound barrier at a height of 10 feet kind of whoosh.