The Vagina Bonus
The Vagina Bonus
I know women can do magical things with their vaginas, like shut them down during a rape. But who knew the biggest advantage was to get more money from Social Security? Who knew? I surely didn’t. It makes me wonder why men don’t use this as their retirement plan. It seems logical to me, that men should take a pay cut so they can collect more when they retire.
SS is calculated by a formula.
Social Security benefits are based on your lifetime earnings. Your actual earnings are
adjusted or “indexed” to account for changes in average wages since the year the earnings
were received. Then Social Security calculates your average indexed monthly earnings during
the 35 years in which you earned the most. We apply a formula to these earnings and arrive
at your basic benefit, or “primary insurance amount” (PIA). This is how much you would
receive at your full retirement age—65 or older
The more you earn and pay in, the more you collect. Men generally earn more than women, so their SS checks are higher. Another factor of overall lifetime earnings is that some women will take time off the raise children. For those years their contribution into SS is ZERO. No credit towards SS security reflects in the amount they receive in retirement. Say a woman takes off 10 years to raise kids, her earnings are $35,000 that is a minimum of $350, 000 not calculated into the formula. (That is not including any raises she would have received during those years.)
Oh. Wait. The reason women collect more is simply they out live men and therefore collect longer. There are some simple solutions to remedy this. Women could be killed when their spouse dies. A more compassionate alternative is simply to stop sending checks to those women when their spouse dies. A flaw in those ideas, some women never marry. At the age of 75 (the average life of a man) unmarried women could be rounded up and disposed of or can have their SS cut off.
Or…..
Women can earn equal pay for equal work and contribute more into SS. I know a radical idea.
Social Security as it was designed was as sexist against both genders as you can get. It wasn’t until a 1975 Supreme Court case that it began to be more equalized. Who argued that case? Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ***gasp a woman***
Until then, if a man’s wife died, he could not collect on her SS. In contrast a woman could collect on her deceased husband’s. A man’s wife died during childbirth. She was a school teacher at the time and the husband was denied his claim. The outcome was SS was no longer called nor considered a wife’s benefit, but a spousal benefit.
Archaic sexist beliefs:
Why was the ‘wife’s benefit’ only 50% of her husband’s SS? When SS was set up, the men on the panel argued a women can live on less than a man because she knew how to cook and clean for herself. A man had to eat at restaurants and hire a maid. If a woman could not live on the amount, she could always move in with her children, clean house and help raise the grandkids. If a man could not live on his check, he also could move in with his kid’s but his contribution to the household was to sit on the front porch and smoke a pipe.
So there you have it. It took a man's case and a woman to argue it for women to get the vagina bonus of equality within the SS administration to begin.
More on the Court case and archaic beliefs:
http://books.google.com/books?id=RxnwJxtwZCUC&pg=PA87&dq=alice+kessler+harris+designing+women+and+old+fools&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DkOxT9jKH4O7iwKF6OSGBA&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=alice%20kessler%20harris%20designing%20women%20and%20old%20fools&f=false
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I know women can do magical things with their vaginas, like shut them down during a rape. But who knew the biggest advantage was to get more money from Social Security? Who knew? I surely didn’t. It makes me wonder why men don’t use this as their retirement plan. It seems logical to me, that men should take a pay cut so they can collect more when they retire.
I think mocking might be a more apt description.
Even though I am not new to the board, I really don't post much. This is probably about the 5th OP that I have made. IOW, I know other's posting style and humor, better than you know mine. I really should have taken that into account and made it clear what my intentions were.
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It is so good to see such a thoughtful, well-written, intelligent piece. Filled with fact and rational thinking.
Thank you!
I can see them all signing up for that!
