Feminist cupcake sale leads to death and rape threats

[Tennis]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...der-inequality

The idea was that each baked good would only cost you the proportion of $1 that you earn comparative to men (or, if you identify as a man, all baked goods would cost you $1). For example, for a woman of colour in the legal profession, a baked good at the stall would only cost you 55 cents.

Other university campuses and women’s collectives around the world have done it before – from campuses in the US charging more for white students than black students, to campuses in the UK only giving students the proportion of a cupcake they would earn in real life. This was not a new idea.

Far from simply starting a discussion about wage disparity in Australia, the online backlash over the Gender Pay Gap Bake Sale brought to light hundreds of other issues of gender inequality, from sexual violence and threats against women, to why we still need feminism in the 21st century. This bake sale did its job and more.

We had students who had previously dismissed the idea of feminism approach us at the bake sale, purchase an item and explain that they “didn’t believe feminism was still needed until reading the comments posted online.”

These comments, posted by anonymous keyboard warriors (those who love to sit behind their computer screens and attack people changing the world) threatened violence against attendees and organisers of the bake sale, with posts including:

“I’m so glad I know this event is on, now I won’t have to sort through all the ugly chicks when I’m out clubbing cos they’ll all be at feminist week instead”
“Kill all women”
“I’d punch a chick if she winked at me at the bake sale”
“Females are fucking scum, they should be put down as babies”
“I want to rape these feminist cunts with their fucking baked goods”.

The bake sale may be over, but this discussion is just beginning.

And it all started because a couple of male students were upset that they would have to pay $1 for a cupcake.

The discussion is just beginning. Are you surprised that in 2016 there is still such a backlash towards women getting a fair wage?

[Feeline10]

Yet another MMO shit post.


[Infracted]

[Tennis]

Yet another MMO shit post.

No way you could have read the article in 10 seconds.

[Ichifails]

Yet another MMO shit post.

Gotta leave certain posters unbanned for page views(=adds=profit) and to satisfy Endus's boner.

[Deleted]

No way you could have read the article in 10 seconds.

You'd be amazed but with some reading tecniques you can immediately figure out it's just spam and skip reading it.

[Feeline10]

No way you could have read the article in 10 seconds.

I read what you quoted in this post. I did not read the article that's accurate. But I read everything you quoted.

I repeat, another MMO shit post in the worst era of human civilization ever. SJW's, feminists, and retards are literally the new black plague.

[Gamdwelf]

No way you could have read the article in 10 seconds.

It's clickbait trolling article people don't always need to read It to understand that.

[Mihalik]

The discussion is just beginning. Are you surprised that in 2016 there is still such a backlash towards women getting a fair wage?

Wage gap is a debunked myth.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christ...b_2073804.html

[Tennis]

It's clickbait trolling article people don't always need to read It to understand that.

Please post constructively. What does your post have to do with the article and topic?

[XangXu]

Those assholes have sentenced themselves to a fate worse then death.

Like the rest of the disgusting wretches who say and think such things, they will be forgotten.

[Feeline10]

Please post constructively. What does your post have to do with the article and topic?

Post a constructive thread then if you want constructive discussion. This is pure shit post clickbait and you god damn know it well enough.

[Tennis]

Post a constructive thread then if you want constructive discussion. This is pure shit post clickbait and you god damn know it well enough.

Nuh uh.

Clickbait is "5 reasons why Feminism is still a major issue"

[Shinra1]

I'm not surprised white men have been comfortable for too long. Just look at this thread people are sticking up for would-be rapists and abusers because they too have their genitalia on the outside.

For one, I think the bake sale idea is an amazing one even though I never heard of it before but I wish it would have been thing when I was at university but then again my university was full of uptight privileged people. If men are upset that they have to pay 45 cents more than a woman I think they should be more worried about their life choices leading to them not being able to afford a 1 dollar cupcake.

[Feeline10]

Nuh uh.

Clickbait is "5 reasons why Feminism is still a major issue"

Sigh. Worst era of human civilization ever.

[Ichifails]

Ahahha the comments on that "article". So many delusional retards on this planet holy fuck.

[Deleted]

I like these bake sale things that do this. There's always a bit of drama with like some guy showing up like "hurr hurr I identify as a disabled black lady something something lol cheap cupcakes #smashthestate" but you can just be like "whatever" with such people, plus there is often drama with like "oh you're asking trans/disabled/gay/whatever people to out themselves, thats not okay", but then like, there's an interesting point about presentation there too so IDK.

I think if you take it too seriously it turns into some shitty like oppression olympics but it's just good to like... make you think, at least.

[ItachiZaku]

A little ironic how the feminists are still in the kitchen baking cupcakes for us.

[Deleted]

You'd be amazed but with some reading tecniques you can immediately figure out it's just spam and skip reading it.

I find reading the username works best.

[purebalance]

Please post constructively. What does your post have to do with the article and topic?

Saying it's a clickbait article has everything to do with it. If anything your posts are not constructive. Your posts are intended to be divisive and to egg people on with lies. You're posting an article that is supporting people who are lying and making claims that women are paid less. Pretty sure I can cite women who are paid more than men even when accounting for time worked and experience in the job off the top of my head: Porn stars.

[Socialhealer]

so some women are sexist assholes? tell us something we didn't know.

i mean imagine men selling cakes for twice the price to women? yeh just imagine the shitstorm, go on.