A 74-year-old man in a bow tie has given the most compelling justification for the gender pay gap we’ve heard yet:
“Women”, Polish politician Janusz Korwin-Mikke declared, “must earn less than men, because they are weaker, they are smaller, they are less intelligent”.
The right-winger made the comment to a near empty parliament in Warsaw on Wednesday during a debate on the topic.
It didn’t sit well Spanish socialist Iratxe Garcia Perez, whose tiny brain obviously failed to comprehend why its owner ought to receive a tiny packet.
"According to what you're saying and your theory, I wouldn't have the right to be here as a member of parliament," she bit back.
"I know you're very upset and very concerned about the fact we women can represent citizens on an equal footing with you.
“I think I need to defend European women against men like you.”
On Thursday, parliament President Antonio Tajani opened an investigation to find if Janusz Korwin-Mikke's broke the rule which says parliamentary debate "shall be characterised by mutual respect" without "defamatory, racist or xenophobic language or behaviour in parliamentary debates", according to the BBC.
LISTEN: We wonder what Sallyanne Atkinson's thoughts on the matter would be. (Post continues...)
But Korwin-Mikke, who also believes women shouldn't vote, was not done, despite the threat of a fine or possible suspension.
Yesterday he said it was a "20th century stereotype that women have the same intellectual potential as men," which "must be destroyed because it is not true".
Sounds like a crock, but what do we know? We're just weak, small, less intelligent women, right?
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I am much more book smart than my partner but he is by far more worldly than I am. Put an English essay in front of us and i'll ace it but anything at all around the house, he will fix it with no trouble at all. He is also MUCH more physically strong than I am, however I would regard myself as more emotionally strong than he is. And this is just our relationship! I wish old white men would stop generalising.
Well with my 2 degrees from a top tier uni, my big pay packet, my killer resume, multiple properties, luxury vehicles and my large Pacific Islander frame and the fact that I work out 7 times a week I can tell you I'm stronger, bigger and more intelligent than many men I personally know and even if I didn't have those things at the very least i have enough brains to not make sweeping generalisations about 50% of the population.