no, you're not rid of me

I know some people have a hard time excepting the realities of gender-based wage inequality and think that it's from another time and place. That's not a true story.

The true story is that it is alive and vibrant. A recent study shows that on average, recent male college grads earn 21.09$ while recent female college grads earn 18.17$. For those of you into numbers, that's a difference of 2.92$, and that's for, let me emphasize, recent college graduates. A group that you would think would face a relatively equal field. And in fact wage inequality is so inherent that the article doesn't even address it - the article is actually about how recent college grads salaries and benefits have gone down since 2001 and makes no mention of the wage discrepancy.

Ta da! You are still learning!

all american girl

Wanna hear something really amazing?

Two college softball teams were playing at a conference. A senior stepped up to bat and hit the first home run of her softball career. She accidentally ran past first without tagging and doubled back so she could tag and keep running. Doing so, she tore a ligament in her knee and collapsed in a heap on the field. Her coach at first base tried to tell her to crawl back to first and touch it. If anyone on her team helped her, it would only count as a single, not a home run. So two girls from the other team asked if they could carry her around the bases. And they did. They picked her up and stopped at every base so she could touch it. By the time they got to third base, everyone was standing and applauding. The home run counted. The other team lost.

True story.

I'm not normally very sentimental or mushy, but this story actually makes me tear up. I don't know why - I mean, is it so crazy that true sportsmanship actually exists? But I still think it's really inspiring and heart-warming. And it makes you think... would you carry your opponent across the finish line?