This girl’s yearbook quote is spot on and fast becoming legendary on the Internet.
Caitlyn Cannon told of how she was tired of the same quotes always appearing in the pages of high school yearbooks and wanted to submit a quote that was entertaining and also profound. She hoped the quote would go some way towards highlighting the gender pay gap among her peers. Instead the image tweeted by her friend (below) has gone viral and received nearly 10,000 retweets.
“I was tired of seeing the same old quotes from popular books and movies and authors, and I wanted to call attention to a problem that women face,” she said in an email to The Huffington Post. “I’ve never really been ashamed to say that I am gay, so the LGBT aspect was simply who I am.”
this is all I honestly care about right now pic.twitter.com/5J0YauhezN
— lil snowball (@casualnosebleed) May 26, 2015
Cannon had seen a similar quote on Tumbler written from a man’s perspective and decided to subvert expectations and add her own little twist.
Though the reaction Cannon’s quote has received is overwhelmingly positive there have been some questions raised about the veracity of her claimed 25 per cent pay gap. Though even if the percentage quoted is inaccurate, surely the very existence of a pay gap of any degree is still an issue of equality. Regardless of America’s pay gap situation the quote will certainly speak to Irish women as recent research shows we are currently making on average 14.4 per cent less than men.
