Twisted Logic

Two articles in the newspaper stood out for me today.

8-year, $102 million deal puts Roethlisberger in CEO range of annual compensation

Let'$ put thi$ in per$pective. Ben Roethlisberger can afford a new nickname now. Big Bucks Ben.

The Steelers quarterback, the day after his 26th birthday, didn't simply pick up a $25.2 million bonus or $33.2 million in guaranteed income yesterday in his new, eight-year contract extension with the family heretofore stigmatized as the penny-pinching Rooneys. He earned a future [...]

and

Study: Gender pay gap big in Pittsburgh

The pay gap between male and female professionals in the Pittsburgh area far exceeds the national average across most industries and occupations, according to a new study.

Women make up 48 percent of the Pittsburgh area work force, yet female managers earned just 58.3 percent of local men and 89.5 percent of what women around the country made, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. Women in management positions at local nonprofits fared only slightly better, earning 64.3 percent of their male counterparts.

Local men, meanwhile, outearned their counterparts around the country.[...]

Okay, what's wrong with this picture? What's wrong with society? What's wrong with our priorities? Doesn't anybody care? Of course not, cause it's the men who are running things.

Sorry guys, but I speak the truth.
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