78 On The Dollar...

So I'm having a drink with my buddy Lucas after work one night, and he tells me something shocking; He says "Listen, I just learned today that for every dollar I earn, a woman makes seventy-eight cents." I guess I always knew this was a thing, but I'd never actually heard anyone articulate it in person before. I was incensed, to say the least. The injustice of it all was maddening. What kind of society do we live in where this kind of shit happens? I mean it's 2015, for fuck's sake. It's like we haven't made any gains in gender equality at all. I downed my whiskey and told him, putting my glass squarely on the counter, I said, "Lucas. You need to get a better lawyer. That's the worst alimony settlement I've ever heard of."