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  1. Kiera Clutterbuck
    It's both gender and racial discrimination.
  2. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I didn't know about this change and was excited to hear about it, so I wanted to see when it became the law. Obama signed it into law in 2014 but it's only for federal contractors!!?? Bleh! 4 in 10 contractors are private, so that is much less protection than I'd hoped for.
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    Mark Wahlberg, the actor who was paid 1.5 million for the reshoots while Michelle Williams was paid only $1,000, is a great ally for women. He donated his 1.5 million to charity in Williams' name: Wahlberg said: "I 100% support the fight for fair pay and I’m donating the $1.5 million to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund in Michelle Williams’ name". https://deadline.com/2018/01/mark-wahlberg-michelle-williams-timesup-donation-million-and-one-half-donation-all-the-money-in-the-world-1202242504/
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    What did you think about the actresses I posted, describing how they got paid so much less than the men for the same jobs? Some posts mentioned even more actresses who came forward too.
  5. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I like how you are concerned about not upsetting people; this shows you care about the feelings of others. Please don't stop being curious about this and run away. Believe me, no matter what you say people will get upset around here! I'm including myself, as I often wonder at a later date why in the world some post would upset me. hehe
  6. Kiera Clutterbuck
    My grandma from the south was a mamaw
  7. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Everybody are wrong about grammars today.
  8. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I like this actress too, speaking to the issue:
  9. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Deficiencies of the Equal Pay Act and why they need this other law to give it teeth: https://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/governmental_legislative_work/priorities_policy/discrimination/the-paycheck-fairness-act/ Deficiencies of the EPA The EPA has proven ineffective in eradicating gender-based wage discrimination for several reasons: Remedies. The EPA's limited remedies often provide inadequate compensation to make the victim whole and are insufficient to deter future violations of the law by employers who view them as a cost of doing business. Interpretations. Judicial interpretations of two of the provisions of the EPA conflict with the clear intent of the law and have weakened its effectiveness. Specifically, courts have adopted a narrow definition of what constitutes a work establishment, and some courts have permitted employers to pay unequal wages to men and women based on factors that are not job-related. Class Actions. The EPA’s class action provisions are outdated. At present, it is very difficult to bring EPA lawsuits as class actions because the EPA, adopted prior to the current federal class action rule (FRCP Rule 23), requires plaintiffs to opt in to participate in a class action suit. Retaliation. The EPA’s prohibition against retaliation only covers employees who initiate a complaint or lawsuit. Conduct leading up to that point is not covered. This is a problem because companies have restrictive policies that penalize employees from disclosing or discussing their salaries with co-workers, which often prevents or deters workers from discovering wage inequities.
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    The problem in the Equal Pay Act you mentioned where suing is possible, is that people find ways to skirt around it. When bosses want to make more money they can be tricky. Here's an actress I like who made great strides bringing awareness to the problem. For some reshoots she was paid 1000 while her male co-star was paid 1.5 million for the same task! https://www.insider.com/michelle-williams-pay-gap-mark-wahlberg-reshoots-equal-pay-day-2019-4 Efforts were made inAmerica to add some teeth to the Equal Pay Act with the Paycheck Fairness Act, but it's still not passed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_Fairness_Act
  11. Kiera Clutterbuck
    We need a scary emoticon.
  12. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Can a VR headset spy on you? https://stealthoptional.com/how-to/does-oculus-quest-2-spy-on-you-how-private-is-the-oculus-quest-2-vr-headset/
  13. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Is that why Love is so corny? * oh no, looked that up and it didn't mean at all what I thought it did. Thought it meant sillyfunny. Fun.
  14. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Peeve: I don't really understand what can and can't be said on this thread.
  15. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Don't assume they don't track our every movement .. they just don't sell the data ... Maybe they don't sell it because the only people interested in buying it are psychology majors and they're all broke. and "naughty" factors. hehe
  16. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I'd venture to say it's a much better mission than tracking your every move for advertising purposes, like at Meta.
  17. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I'd venture to say we need to include all these factors too in our assessment.
  18. Kiera Clutterbuck
    While Luna makes a good start on this topic, some clarification might help. It's not the small store any resident might open that makes the most money; I'd venture to say that's rare. The big money-makers team up with others where prejudice can play a factor within the group, where preferences come into play when sorting out who gets what benefit. So if nobody really knows the gender of another then perhaps males are not chosen over females to such a degree. Being hired by a company to create a project is another big money-maker where many prefer men in positions of authority or heads of companies and will hire them over a woman-owned company; a woman can earn an advantage here by not revealing her gender, or even by assuming a male avatar. One day, hopefully, women will be seen as competent when in a position of authority. And the good old boy network where people choose those of 'their kind' will be lessened as more women are part of that network too: their preponderance in governments and other positions of authority is much lower at this point in time, giving them a severe disadvantage. Until then, SL can be a good equalizer. Perhaps not so in a few other virtual worlds where there is pressure to reveal real life identity.
  19. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Love is cute and funny so we can allow him to misbehave a little. Hehe
  20. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Packages of food are getting so much smaller. Some of them are more like single-serving size now.
  21. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I get it. It's like the house-hoppers are a kind of community that enjoys letting go of homes and passing them on to others. You like to see who gets the home you let go of, and know the person who let go of theirs for you. I like to let go of really good spots at a strange time, hoping that a home-hunter is totally shocked and delighted at finding such a choice spot at an unusual hour. I've never waited around to see them, but I might do that sometime.
  22. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Please let us marry pumpkins JOLLY
  23. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I don't know if this is true for you, but I used to experience what you describe here. I discovered I was thinking too deeply about each thing a person said. There was no need for me to produce symbols and go into poetic mode over every utterance..lol (making fun of myself a bit here). You might be talking about feeling ill though, and spacey -- I've got an auto-immune condition where my mind feels foggy frequently, so I understand on that level too.
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    Bitsy I have frequently found that those who are the quieter ones, for whatever reason, are more interesting. More often than not it seems those who do well in a group know how to put on an act better than those of us who are more introverted. Now if all people (whether more introverted or extroverted) become REAL..then that energy can be amazing, even transformative, but this type of experience is so rare.
  25. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Given the nature of some of the open chat I've heard in some clubs I have to agree (not that if you spoke this would be true however).
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