NYC Pharmacy Charges 7% “Man Tax” To Send A Powerful Message
James Gould-Bourn BoredPanda staff
According to a study conducted by the NYC consumer affairs department, women’s products cost 7% more than men’s. Well now a chemist in New York City has decided to combat this discrepancy by adding a 7% tax on all products purchased by men to make a statement about gender discrimination.
“We thought it’d be a great idea with all the political things going on—with Clinton being such a woman and the other guy and his womanizing,” Jolie Alony, owner of Thompson Chemists in SoHo, told the Daily Dot. “We wanted to share that women deserve to get a break, and men deserve to be charged 7 percent more. Women are spending more in general and we make less, so we deserve to have a break.”
Charging men and women different prices is actually a violation of New York’s pricing laws, so the chemist is paying the difference from their own pockets. The response has also been mixed, with some people supporting the idea and others branding it sexist. What do you think? (h/t: the daily dot)
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What do you think ?
what would happen? mens will go shop elsewhere.
how in the hell does this support equality?
To bring men and women awareness. Even though it's not the way I would usually prefer to take action, I'm getting so tired of today's society and it's unconscious losers that the "taste of your own medicine" technique is slowly becoming more appealing. If you don't like it, THEN CHANGE FASTER. It is not hard to understand how to behave! Men and women are different, yes, but neither of them are better than the other. Just because one can do something better does not mean the other shouldn't be given the opportunity to do the exact same thing. We're supposed to work together to solve problems, which would make life so much easier. IT'S. NOT. HARD.
This supports equality by bringing to light the reactions following this event. Because it's a tax against men, there's likely going to be a bigger fight against it by people. Maybe some threats of suing. Maybe some media coverage. The point is that it'll likely show how everyone will come out of the woodwork to support equality for men but not for women. Also. There might be some publicity stunt tucked under here where the owner might donate the extra tax stipends to a women's charity something something or other. Most businesses that do stuff like this usually donate the stupens generated income.
.....or not.
Women's products cost more because they are BETTER than Men's products! I'd love to see a woman use AXE shampoo for a week to see what it does to her well pampered hair!
WOW. just wow. that comment CLEARLY indicates your level of distortion of what equality is.
Kevin many women use men's products specifically because they are cheaper. Way to lump us all into one category.
Where's the problem then? Everybody can buy every product! If it's blue or pink who cares? This man tax really isn't a good idea...
Equality here is not the goal. The real goal at this store is "Egalitarianism", which is different. The former is 'before the fact' and the later is 'after the fact'. That's why this is taking place in New Yawk, Progressive capital of the United States.
It doesn't. The whole premise is false. Women don't make less money and the don't pay more for comparable products.
Dude they do make less money.
This is a horrible horrible way to make the point. Why should men "deserve" to pay more?? Women deserve to pay less -in other words equal to men - but that's not the same thing as charging men more!
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they're not paying more - they're paying the going tax rate. Women are temporarily paying less for the products that they've long been overpaying for.
what would happen? mens will go shop elsewhere.
how in the hell does this support equality?
To bring men and women awareness. Even though it's not the way I would usually prefer to take action, I'm getting so tired of today's society and it's unconscious losers that the "taste of your own medicine" technique is slowly becoming more appealing. If you don't like it, THEN CHANGE FASTER. It is not hard to understand how to behave! Men and women are different, yes, but neither of them are better than the other. Just because one can do something better does not mean the other shouldn't be given the opportunity to do the exact same thing. We're supposed to work together to solve problems, which would make life so much easier. IT'S. NOT. HARD.
This supports equality by bringing to light the reactions following this event. Because it's a tax against men, there's likely going to be a bigger fight against it by people. Maybe some threats of suing. Maybe some media coverage. The point is that it'll likely show how everyone will come out of the woodwork to support equality for men but not for women. Also. There might be some publicity stunt tucked under here where the owner might donate the extra tax stipends to a women's charity something something or other. Most businesses that do stuff like this usually donate the stupens generated income.
.....or not.
Women's products cost more because they are BETTER than Men's products! I'd love to see a woman use AXE shampoo for a week to see what it does to her well pampered hair!
WOW. just wow. that comment CLEARLY indicates your level of distortion of what equality is.
Kevin many women use men's products specifically because they are cheaper. Way to lump us all into one category.
Where's the problem then? Everybody can buy every product! If it's blue or pink who cares? This man tax really isn't a good idea...
Equality here is not the goal. The real goal at this store is "Egalitarianism", which is different. The former is 'before the fact' and the later is 'after the fact'. That's why this is taking place in New Yawk, Progressive capital of the United States.
It doesn't. The whole premise is false. Women don't make less money and the don't pay more for comparable products.
Dude they do make less money.
This is a horrible horrible way to make the point. Why should men "deserve" to pay more?? Women deserve to pay less -in other words equal to men - but that's not the same thing as charging men more!
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
they're not paying more - they're paying the going tax rate. Women are temporarily paying less for the products that they've long been overpaying for.