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<blockquote data-quote="Booko" data-source="post: 67289082" data-attributes="member: 159263"><p>I hear this so much, but men are always so surprised how expensive it is to be a woman compared to being a man. When they bother to take the time to learn, that is.</p><p></p><p>Men call it "extravagance" when the reality a woman lives is if you want to hold down a job, you will need far more of a wardrobe than any man. It will change frequently, it will cost more per item, and the workmanship will be shoddy. We may need to buy hundreds of dollars of cosmetics no man will ever have to pay a penny for. We'll be expected to sport hairstyles that are pricey in order to "get ahead" in our jobs, where men need not bother. For African-American women we're talking thousands of dollars to have "good hair." You need razors...so do we. The same razor, colored in pink and stocked in the women's section, costs more. I buy razors in the men's section for a reason. The same dry cleaning costs women more, unless they complain. You may or may not get anywhere demanding the same rate a man pays. There are other realities of being a woman that also cost us more. Unless we go back to my grandma's day when rags were left out on shrubs in the sunlight to bleach. </p><p></p><p>I am just getting started.</p><p></p><p>I don't doubt there are extravagant women out there. I've met them. But "almost all"?</p><p></p><p>Walk a mile in our moccasins and get back to me about how extravagant we all are.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't need to be enslaved by a house full of Walmart junk. I will happily lower my expectations there.</p><p></p><p>I would be more than happy to go back to a time when things were made to last and did last and we had to have fewer of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Booko, post: 67289082, member: 159263"] I hear this so much, but men are always so surprised how expensive it is to be a woman compared to being a man. When they bother to take the time to learn, that is. Men call it "extravagance" when the reality a woman lives is if you want to hold down a job, you will need far more of a wardrobe than any man. It will change frequently, it will cost more per item, and the workmanship will be shoddy. We may need to buy hundreds of dollars of cosmetics no man will ever have to pay a penny for. We'll be expected to sport hairstyles that are pricey in order to "get ahead" in our jobs, where men need not bother. For African-American women we're talking thousands of dollars to have "good hair." You need razors...so do we. The same razor, colored in pink and stocked in the women's section, costs more. I buy razors in the men's section for a reason. The same dry cleaning costs women more, unless they complain. You may or may not get anywhere demanding the same rate a man pays. There are other realities of being a woman that also cost us more. Unless we go back to my grandma's day when rags were left out on shrubs in the sunlight to bleach. I am just getting started. I don't doubt there are extravagant women out there. I've met them. But "almost all"? Walk a mile in our moccasins and get back to me about how extravagant we all are. I don't need to be enslaved by a house full of Walmart junk. I will happily lower my expectations there. I would be more than happy to go back to a time when things were made to last and did last and we had to have fewer of them. [/QUOTE]
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