Willy Wants to Know!

http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/03/07/oprah-and-tina-fey-demand-world-leaders-fight-for-gender-equality/

People vary on their definition of successful. Wealth itself is not an indication of success. Success is defined as working, creating, and building up something, typically such as business career or like Judge Judy. It require education and hardwork, you "earn it."

Talk show hosts and actresses are not really "successful" in my opinion. They're more like conartists to con the audience for money. Their wealth derives from an extension of highschool popularity contest.

Point in context, both Fey and Oprah are economically illiterate, have no idea how the real world works, etc... and are completely out of touch with working Americans.

But thanks for your rebuttal.

Oh, I couldn't tell from your meme that you were referring to all the myriad forms of success... Both Oprah and Fey worked their way up from low and middle class, respecticely.

Fey, the daughter of a secretary and a university grant writer who worked at a YMCA while taking classes at Second City, was stabbed in the face by a total stranger at the age of five.

Oprah, the daughter of a teenaged, single mom, was very poor growing up, and was bounced around from grandma to an aunt and back to her mom who -at the age of nine was raped by a cousin. She was smart, though, and could read and write by the age of three. She was also instilled with religion from a young age. She was recruited out of high school by the local radio station and thus started her news career.

You can try to look down on these women all you want. But they are successful in many forms of the word, and they made it in fields - comedy and news - that are typically and historically some of the most gender-biased, making their accomplishments even more admirable. And yes, with all their success, they're complaining about gender equality, too. So to say successful women never complain about gender equality is false.

Oh I made the meme to get points! Like everyone else! That's the motive! :D

But you see, this sentence, "You can try to look down on these women all you want," already revealed your own bias on the subject.

I look down on anyone in these professions regardless of whether they're women or men. But you choose to inject gender as an issue. That's why your views are not objective.

Money itself is not an indication of success, as I've mentioned. A person can be a bank robber and be rich, but I would not consider that success. Success comes from your choice of profession, your job, and your role. Celebrities are not successes, hence why so many of them have drug problems, suicide problems, etc... these people are failures.

Oprah gets paid millions b/c her produce got her an interview with Michael Jackson. She has nothing to do with it. All she does is talk to celebrities and make money off endorsements b/c a lot of stupid people like to watch these things. She doesn't create anything and she doesn't know anything. She's an insecure little person and that is why she exploded in France when a high retail store did not recognize her.

I chose to inject gender? Hello, the first line of your meme has the word "women" in it.

I think Judge Judy said it best:

I wasn’t a woman lawyer, I was a woman who happened to be a lawyer. I wasn’t a woman judge, I was a judge who happened to be a woman.

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I was explaining to you why I do not consider jobs in the acting field or hosting field "successful," you automatically assumed it was a gender issue. Our perspectives are very different. I see actors who are women, you see women actors.

I see two women who have succeeded in fields that are still biased against women, not only in pay but also in the expectations put on their appearance. Oprah has managed to succeed despite the fact that they want women to be skinny. Fey has succeeded despite the scar on her face. Long before Oprah was a talk show host she was a reporter. Still, news and talk shows, are two fields historically dominated by men. I see a lot of success and hard work in what they have accomplished.

Your meme asked how come successful women don't complain... If you're not seeing this as a gender issue, perhaps the question should have been "how come successful people don't complain...?"

You simply don't get it. You never will.

I get it. You don't consider Oprah and Tina Fey successful because they're in show business. Judge Judy on the other hand....