2 defect or not to defect...
i am moving to Canadia and you can't stop me!!! and the following are 2 reasons why:
1- they are progressive:
Is Gender-Based Pricing Fair?
TORONTO (Reuters) - Most women, accustomed to paying more than men for goods and services like clothes and hair cuts, simply shrug it off as part of life, but an Ontario legislator hopes to end all that.
Lorenzo Berardinetti wants to brand so-called gender-based pricing a human rights violation and he has introduced a bill in the Ontario legislature to make the practice illegal.
Berardinetti said on Tuesday he was shocked when he and his wife took clothes to a dry cleaners and she ended up paying more for similar items.
"I get charged one price and she gets charged another price for virtually the same material," he said.
Berardinetti said that opened his eyes to an experience women have long learned to deal with, namely higher prices for clothes, shoes, hair cuts and other services.
"The bill would ... amend the human rights code in Ontario to make gender pricing discriminatory and it would also allow for penalties to be levied from C$2,000 to C$5,000," he said.
The bill -- "An Act to Prohibit Price Discrimination on the Basis of Gender" -- will be debated in the legislature in April in the second phase of a four-stage process toward a bill making its way into law. If it passes a final third reading, royal assent then sees it written into law.
2- we are stifled by our own bi-partisan divisive attitudes- ON EVERYTHING:
Ann Coulter has had a few too many smokes'n'chardonays....
her latest rant is paralleling the Terry Schiavo case to anything democratic'n'wrong.
"Democrats have called out armed federal agents in order to: (1) prevent black children from attending a public school in Little Rock, Ark. (National Guard); (2) investigate an alleged violation of federal gun laws in Waco, Texas (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms); and (3) deport a small boy to Cuba (Immigration and Naturalization Service).
So how about a Republican governor sending in the National Guard to stop an innocent American woman from being starved to death in Florida? Republicans like the military. Democrats get excited about the use of military force only when it's against Americans. "
it seems as though she will find the partisan aspect of any issue and run with it.
but the other end of that, Wonkette.... http://www.wonkette.com wrong, but funny-
" hmmm...maybe terry schiavo will die today and rise again on sunday. we could start a new religion--the schiavists. the priests could be called activist judges and would molest congressmen instead of children."
1- they are progressive:
Is Gender-Based Pricing Fair?
TORONTO (Reuters) - Most women, accustomed to paying more than men for goods and services like clothes and hair cuts, simply shrug it off as part of life, but an Ontario legislator hopes to end all that.
Lorenzo Berardinetti wants to brand so-called gender-based pricing a human rights violation and he has introduced a bill in the Ontario legislature to make the practice illegal.
Berardinetti said on Tuesday he was shocked when he and his wife took clothes to a dry cleaners and she ended up paying more for similar items.
"I get charged one price and she gets charged another price for virtually the same material," he said.
Berardinetti said that opened his eyes to an experience women have long learned to deal with, namely higher prices for clothes, shoes, hair cuts and other services.
"The bill would ... amend the human rights code in Ontario to make gender pricing discriminatory and it would also allow for penalties to be levied from C$2,000 to C$5,000," he said.
The bill -- "An Act to Prohibit Price Discrimination on the Basis of Gender" -- will be debated in the legislature in April in the second phase of a four-stage process toward a bill making its way into law. If it passes a final third reading, royal assent then sees it written into law.
2- we are stifled by our own bi-partisan divisive attitudes- ON EVERYTHING:
Ann Coulter has had a few too many smokes'n'chardonays....
her latest rant is paralleling the Terry Schiavo case to anything democratic'n'wrong.
"Democrats have called out armed federal agents in order to: (1) prevent black children from attending a public school in Little Rock, Ark. (National Guard); (2) investigate an alleged violation of federal gun laws in Waco, Texas (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms); and (3) deport a small boy to Cuba (Immigration and Naturalization Service).
So how about a Republican governor sending in the National Guard to stop an innocent American woman from being starved to death in Florida? Republicans like the military. Democrats get excited about the use of military force only when it's against Americans. "
it seems as though she will find the partisan aspect of any issue and run with it.
but the other end of that, Wonkette.... http://www.wonkette.com wrong, but funny-
" hmmm...maybe terry schiavo will die today and rise again on sunday. we could start a new religion--the schiavists. the priests could be called activist judges and would molest congressmen instead of children."
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I know it's rough, but trends are turning in our favor. Give it time.
I would beg to differ. Men's clothing is MUCH more expensive than womens, it's just that women seem to buy more of it. One men's sweater is more expensive than one women's sweater. The problem is, one man's sweater is less expensive than one woman's sweater in every color.
You know what's an idea whose time has come tho? Weight based pricing. Charge them fat folks twice as much for a shirt...and justify it by saying "Dude...twice as much cloth, twice as much cash."
Fair?
yes.
~The Politically Incorrect One.
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