[jandy]

WTF is this shit. You are embarrassing yourself, and assuming you're male you're embarrassing the rest of us who try to fix the decades of prejudice women have had to put up with.

Let's not get started on stay at home fathers not being a valid thing for a man to do.

WTF.

[Moshe_Silnorin]

Look at this bloodlessly, as you would a coding problem. Do you honestly think women and men are psychologically identical on every economically relevant metric, in capabilities and/or preferences? What would the world look like if this were true? What would it look like if it were not?

[jandy]

No, I don't. That's nonsense. But two people doing the same job and achieving results should be paid the same. It's not that complicated.

[exclusiv]

Whoa. This is why we can't have productive discussions on real issues. White knights abound.

[sinxoveretothex]

I think you're going about this the wrong way. The parent commenter already indicated that they're getting emotional over this topic (assuming genuine indignation).

I sincerely doubt implying they're "white knighting" is going to set the discussion on a better track.

In other words, I think comments like yours are also responsible for why discussions on these topics are so unproductive.

See sibling comments to yours for an idea of how your comment could be improved next time.

[jandy]

Having a productive discussion doesn't start with someone outright denying an issue exists, especially in such a white male dominated industry as ours. I'm sorry having an opinion means the only possibility is I'm vying for popularity.

[anon12345690]

Different career types have different proportions of men and women so the gender-based wage gap is not real.

Men can definitely stay at home if they want to, why do you think that's not valid?