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157.2 million
The number of females in the United States as of Oct. 1, 2010. The number of males is 153.2 million.
Source: US Census Bureau
Earnings, women to men
$36,278
The median annual earnings of women 15 or older who worked year-round, full time, in 2009, up 1.9 percent from $35,609 in 2008 (after adjusting for inflation). Women earned 77 cents for every $1 earned by men, unchanged for several years running.
Source: US Census Bureau
Education, women to men
35%
Percentage of women 25 to 29 who had obtained a bachelor's degree or more as of 2009, which exceeded that of men in this age range—27%.
55%
Percentage of college students in fall 2008 who were women.
58%
Percentage of women 25 to 29 who held advanced degrees in 2009, which exceed that of men in this age range—42%.
Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2009
Political representation, women to men 112th Congress
16.8%
Percentage of women in Congress.
17
Number of women out of 100 U.S. Senators
74
Number of women out of 435 U.S. Representatives. (3 are Delegates) (Of the 74 women in the House, 50 are Democrats, including the 3 Delegates, and 24 are Republicans. Of the 17 women serving in the Senate, 12 are Democrats and 5 are Republicans.)
Source: Congressional Research Service
Rapes or sexual assault against women, 2007
248,300
The majority of US citizens are women; Women are more highly educated in the U.S; Women are continually paid less--by almost 25 percent--than men. Despite a vast pipeline of women in the professional workforce, they are relegated to non-alpha positions. Women are given miniscule representation in government even as they are the majority of the population. Women are largely relegated (most often by so-called progressives) to represent only Democrats in Congress. A staggering national assault occurs daily against women’s bodies with scant attention paid by male-dominated media.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice
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Portrait of a misogynist PIG: Marc Smirnoff is out at The Oxford American, but MSNBC has him on the line...Monday, August 27, 2012 at 11:55 pm — admin
 Marc Smirnoff was a man, a man who wanted to make a magazine for the South in the style of liberal rags like New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly in their grand tradition of only allowing female voice that “got on board” with the “correct” thinking. Marc Smirnoff founded The Oxford American and he courted the boyzy boyz to its pages. We use the past tense because Marc Smirnoff is dead for the time being. But, he’ll be back for sure, because.... when you beg your young female staff to hold your 49 year-old slimeball hand and call female interns “baby” and pat the girlz down in the workplace and on retreats into the woods…. Well you tend to get fired because it looks good to do so, but don’t worry…the New Yorker will have Marc penning for them soon or The Atlantic or Mother Jones or any of the liberal rag tags because boyz run them and boyz will come to the rescue of a Liberal Dude Nation dude. Over Tax the sortakinda rich and give it to sortakind bums but never let a female get the better of you is the mantra of the Liberal Dude Nation. "Once he decided to start the magazine, Smirnoff wrote letters to American writers like John Updike, Richard Ford, Charles Bukowski, and William Steig to ask for contributions to the magazine."~Wikipedia. From the NYTimes: "Mr. Smirnoff founded The Oxford American in 1992, nurturing it with quirky, intellectual writing that promised to help revive the great Southern literary tradition, helped by writers like Richard Ford, J. E. Pitts and Roy Blount Jr. Over two decades Mr. Smirnoff became as closely associated with The Oxford American as Jann Wenner is with Rolling Stone. PS: Jann Wenner of the Rolling Stone magazine is one of the biggest misogynist freaks out there and yes it is man Jann. I expect he’ll call up Marc in about a misogynist minute and say: dude come on over, the water here is warm for you, boyz. Wait...hold the phone...Obama is on the line and wants Marc to work with his top speechwriter, Jon Favreau who did this to Hillary. It brought fond memories back to Obama when he heard the Marc was able to pat up and down the ladies for real. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/books/oxford-american-editor-fired-in-... |
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Editor's note: the following
Editor's note: the following letter to the editor came to us giving another side to this story; the author wanted to tell her side to this story. Here it is:
I read your post about Marc Smirnoff from August 27, 2012. I was the managing
editor of the magazine and I was fired along with Marc Smirnoff. The New York
Times chose to diminish and demean me--merely calling me "Smirnoff's
girlfriend" in referring to my firing--though for eight years, I served as an
acquisition editor who brought numerous female writers to the magazine. The
reason the New York Times ignored me is because one of their freelance
writers (Wes Enzinna) had sexually harassed me in the office (he worked at
The Oxford American for a year and a half) and I had complained about it to
the publisher (with proof: hundreds of pornographic text messages from Wes
Enzinna to me) and got fired for doing so. In trying to present Marc Smirnoff
as a sexual harasser (keep in mind NONE of the allegations were actually
proven) the New York Times had to bury what happened to me. Because I worked
with Smirnoff, I think your evaluation is just wrong: the whole time I worked
with him, he was trying to bring in new female voices to the magazine. He
worked with and published Susan Sontag, Florence King, Julia Reed, Elizabeth
Spencer, Elizabeth Cox, Bronwen Dickey, Jesmyn Ward, Karen Russell, Stephanie
Powell Watts, and he worked incessantly to find unpublished works by Zora
Neale Hurston and Carson McCullers and other great women, and...there are so
many more female writers I could list here. He was a HUGE champion of writing
by women. (I can't help what information gets published on the web but the
truth is that the magazine published MORE writing by women than by men.)
That's the reason I worked there. In contrast, the publisher who fired me has
installed men in every important position: the new editor is male, the new
music issue editor is male, the new music producer is male, the new music CD
(featuring the state of Louisiana) they just put out has only THREE songs by
women out of TWENTY-ONE songs. I am not kidding! I know you probably don't
know (or care) all that much about the Oxford American, but what happened to
me there was a travesty of justice. The publisher tried to cover up all of
the information about what happened to me because there was NO REASON to fire
me. None at all. They chose to keep the real sexual harasser--Wes Enzinna,
senior editor--on staff and fire me. (Wes Enzinna wound up leaving the
magazine to work at Vice Magazine, which is a near-pornographic publication.
Also a later independent investigation proved that Wes Enzinna, senior
editor, had violated Title IX laws, sexual harassment laws, at our office
which was on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas.) My firing was
motivated by sexism and misogyny and I'm surprised no one has had the guts to
talk about it. I couldn't believe that the reporter from the New York Times
would so blatantly demean and belittle me and my years of work in an article
about the "supposed" demeaning of women in the workplace. Carol Ann
Fitzgerald PS I have emails and letters from female writers I worked with at
the magazine who wrote complaints to me about Wes Enzinna, the senior editor
I mentioned, saying he had bullied and disrespected them. Every author that
Wes Enzinna brought to the magazine was male. PPS I'm sorry this note is so
long but your comments showed that you probably didn't know much of the back
story here.
While Marc Smirnoff is
While Marc Smirnoff is basically a liberal, I wouldn't pin his slug slime upon any group. No group could possibly agree to be linked to an insane sexual predator fired from his job for sexual harassment AND acquitted of rape. The guy is alone in the wilderness. No one wants him. He's scum.
Yep. Bump that to NBC
Yep. Bump that to NBC calling.
Perfect example of an Zonama
Perfect example of an Zonama supporter, this Marc fuckwad.
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