Ridiculousness!!!

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97nov/pollitt.htm
"Feminism's Unfinished Business" by Katha Pollitt

I decided to use this as one of the sources for my blogs this week. Something really stuck out to me that saddened me and quite frankly, pissed me off. Here I am, weekly finding articles on Equal Pay and information pertaining to it. But yet, in this news article, it discusses such problems that are so much worse in terms of inequality for women, that I don't know how we will ever even get to the point of achieving equal pay. The following excerpt blew me away:

"All her examples, however, are of widely publicized legal outrages: the judge who took custody from a lesbian mother and gave it to the father, a convicted murderer; the judge who barred a custodial mother from letting her male partner sleep over; the judge who transferred custody to a previously uninvolved father because the mother, a college student, enrolled her toddler in day care. Representative cases, or flukes, or something in between? More significant than these shocking anecdotes are studies suggesting that 20 percent of divorcing husbands use the threat of a custody fight to obtain financial concessions, and that half of Massachusetts judges surveyed believe that a mother should be home when school lets out, and many would shift custody to the father if she isn't."

I'm not saying at all that Equal Pay for women is unimportant, but in a way, compared with this information it seems trivial. Since when were convicted felons more capable of raising children as compared to a mother who loves other women??? Come on people!! This is off the wall crazy and insane. I think our court systems and government need a vacuum taken to them so that all the biased, prejudice, and unfair individuals within these offices can be sucked out. Equal pay is a right women deserve, but I almost can't comprehend how horrible cases such as those in the above text occur and that there is more news and coverage on women getting paid equally. I'm sorry that didn't have much to do with my blog topic, but that paragraph really bothered me and something needed to erupt inside of me onto the keyboard instead of being bottled up.