Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Lesbians are like straight men - official!
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Gay men earn £10k more than national average
According to a new survey average earnings for lesbians in work are pretty much equal to the earnings of straight men in work (at about £24000 per year) and substantially higher than straight women. Gay men, on the other hand, earn on average £10000 more than their straight counterparts.
Mind you, the Guardian (which published the story this week) issued a correction afterwards to point out that the survey only related to readers of Gay Times and Diva and shouldn't be taken as indicative of all queer people. It's always possible that lesbians and gay men with typical earnings don't bother wasting their hard-earned cash on either magazine.
According to a new survey average earnings for lesbians in work are pretty much equal to the earnings of straight men in work (at about £24000 per year) and substantially higher than straight women. Gay men, on the other hand, earn on average £10000 more than their straight counterparts.
Mind you, the Guardian (which published the story this week) issued a correction afterwards to point out that the survey only related to readers of Gay Times and Diva and shouldn't be taken as indicative of all queer people. It's always possible that lesbians and gay men with typical earnings don't bother wasting their hard-earned cash on either magazine.
posted by MR @ 4:05 PM 
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Does this mean that us gay women will finally stop complaining about the price of clubs and drinks and things and that we won't expect every women's event to cost no more than three quid to get into? I doubt it!
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I'd consider buying gay style mags such as Attitude - hey, I even used to work for them as their Technology Editor for two years, and boy have I stories I could tell of what went on behind the scenes in terms of the attitudes of senior straight management towards their only gay 'product - I also wrote for Boyz and the Pink Paper - but the thing that has always put me off is the idea of spending, what, up to almost a fiver for these days for something which usually composes a ten-page spread on the likes of Madonna, a crappy advice column, a few reviews of products only gay men on a salary in excess of 50k a year could possibly buy, and then at least 30 pages of ads for phone sex, text message sex, videophone sex, escorts, sex toys... You get the idea.
You buy most gay magazines and you are basically paying to be advertised to for almost half the magazine. That, and you're expected not only to buy the magazine but to buy into its philosophy, if you can call it a philosophy when what it is saying is 'youth is the only prize worth having, 'take what you want and don't give a damn about anyone else', 'hurt the ones you love and write and tell us about it', and 'if you're not having sex three times a day, what's wrong honey?'.
I know they have to make money, but you don't see the same level of madness, making sex seem quite so tawdry and banal, in general magazines aimed at heterosexuals or not specifically aimed at any sexuality at all. Most gay magazines, rather than making sex appear exciting, actually manage to present it as mundane and boring. The shock has gone, in comes the yawn. You want to be in? Get a back, sack and crack wax, a facelift, a record which samples Madonna and a yacht parked in the Caribbean. x
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You buy most gay magazines and you are basically paying to be advertised to for almost half the magazine. That, and you're expected not only to buy the magazine but to buy into its philosophy, if you can call it a philosophy when what it is saying is 'youth is the only prize worth having, 'take what you want and don't give a damn about anyone else', 'hurt the ones you love and write and tell us about it', and 'if you're not having sex three times a day, what's wrong honey?'.
I know they have to make money, but you don't see the same level of madness, making sex seem quite so tawdry and banal, in general magazines aimed at heterosexuals or not specifically aimed at any sexuality at all. Most gay magazines, rather than making sex appear exciting, actually manage to present it as mundane and boring. The shock has gone, in comes the yawn. You want to be in? Get a back, sack and crack wax, a facelift, a record which samples Madonna and a yacht parked in the Caribbean. x
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