I won’t be proud to be an American until I can get this shirt cleaned for two bucks
Dry Cleaners object to Obama using them as an example of gender discrimination
America’s dry cleaners aren’t happy that President Obama used them as an example in remarks last week about the economic gap between the sexes.
They say the disparity in dry cleaning bills is more complex than the systemized discrimination Obama hinted at in his April 8 remarks about the so-called “pay gap” between the sexes.
The truth is that, as should be obvious to anyone with working eyes and/or the ability to touch, women’s clothes are made with different fabrics, tailored differently and are more delicate. That means it is the garment – not the person’s gender – that results in higher dry-cleaning bills, as Nora Nealis, executive director for the National Cleaners Association, wrote in a letter to Obama.
As an industry, dry cleaners do not charge more for a woman’s shirt than a man’s shirt, they charge more for a hand ironed shirt than they do a machine pressed shirt. If you check your own dry cleaning bill, you’ll find that YOU pay more for the laundering and finishing of your hand ironed tuxedo shirt, than you do for the automated processing of your everyday traditional dress shirt! The price is in the math as calculated by the labor required not the gender of the client!
Simple math. Hand ironing takes more time and requires more skill, and therefore costs the cleaner more to produce. Because it costs more to produce, he charges more for the work.
Dry cleaners’ automated finishing equipment was made to support men’s clothes. But just in case Obama or anyone else in his administration would ask why dry cleaners don’t invest in new equipment to accommodate women’s clothes, Nealis had the answer.
The number of simply cut (no frills like your tuxedo shirt) women’s shirts that are hanging in the nation’s closets are a small fraction of the number of simple men’s dress shirts. Like most male professionals, you wear a shirt most every day. That means you have lots of shirts and by extension your cleaner has lots of men’s shirts to launder and press for you, and others like you. By contrast, how often does the First Lady or your average American woman wear a simple, man-tailored shirt.
Of course, Obama and Miss Bossy don’t pay their own dry cleaning bills so his ignorance might be excused, but facts have nothing to do with his polemics. Interesting how trivial his ilk have made women’s rights, by the way: free birth control, subsidized dry cleaning are the next frontier of woman’s equality? On par with the right to own property and vote? Gracious.
For What It's Worth 
Whenver the topic is dry cleaners I always think of the late Sherman Hemsley, better known as George Jefferson. Now there was a true entrepreneur. I saw someone use the Jeffersons theme song when speaking of the Obamas move to the White House. I think George Jefferson would have been insulted that those two leeches could be compared to an honest, hard working entrepreneur like George Jefferson who earned his way to the top.
Um nope, not a thing about which he won’t lie.
Anyway, he’s not convincing anyone, he’s pandering to the base. His base are either delusional morons, hardcore ideologues who participate in the lies to further the “cause,” or just plain stupid.
Fudrucker, Himes, Blumenthal, is that you?
“Interesting how trivial his ilk have made women’s rights,”
What’s amazing to me is the the drying cleaning, the women’s pay differential and just about everything they’ve brought up has been discussed dissected and basically refuted years & years ago, and I do not even follow this stuff particularly closely. At the very least the issues are much more subtle and difficult that “SEXISM!” or “RACISM!” or whatever
It’s like they are scarping the bottom of the barrel for some muck that will stick, or throwing a great big smoke screen that hopefully will blind low information voters and the democratic base ( but I repeat myself) to the way these morons are stuck in the past.
And the press cooperates by yammering about it, rather that the administration’s billions and billions of scandals.
Liberals generally embarrass themselves whenever commenting on the free market. Doesn’t stop them, though.
I am sure it’s lost on a lot of people that a woman is the Executive Director for the NCA. I guess that means that the National Cleaners Association is sexist and Nora Nealis is just some conservative broad whom is setting the advancement of woman back to the Neanderthal period. So much for moving from the ironing board to the corporate board!!!
“That means it is the garment – not the person’s gender – that results in higher dry-cleaning bills, as Nora Nealis, executive director for the National Cleaners Association, wrote in a letter to Obama.”
So she as much as admits her so-called industry also openly discriminates against cross-dressing gay men. She’s done for. She as much as invited Obama to send in his Department of Conformity’s SWAT Team to take her down. And they better not find she’s harboring cattle.