Why are antifeminists so threatened by the belief that there’s a gender wage gap?
Even if feminists are wrong and there actually is no gender wage gap, exactly what harm is caused by believing that there is one?
Well, here’s a real life example: there are hundreds upon hundreds of special scholarships, grants, and incentives aimed exclusively at women to get a college degree, while men are left out to dry, because of the assumption that women are oppressed scholastically.
Here is the problem: females actually outperform (at least on paper, I won’t go into anti-boy bias here) males at every level of schooling. Because the belief is the exact opposite of the reality, the ‘solution’ implemented not only doesn’t fix a problem (because it never existed in the first place), it doubles down on the actual inequality, and enlarges the divide. Today, men get something like 20% fewer college degrees than women. And no one cares, because everyone is still fixated on closing a non-existent gap by giving women and girls special treatment.
There is much harm in believing something is a problem when it isn’t.
