The High Cost of Being A Woman

DOES a dollar in my pocket buy more than a dollar in my wife’s? It seems so, according to a report — much covered in the US media — released by New York City’s consumer affairs department just before Christmas.
 
The report found that men often paid less for clothes and items such as razor blades and shampoo. Even boys’ toys are cheaper than those aimed at girls. The report led with a striking example from a department store website: while a red "My 1st Scooter Sport" cost $24.99, a pink "My 1st Scooter Girls Sparkle" was twice as much. Beneath the paint job, the products appeared to be identical — surely glitter can’t be that expensive?

Gangs tied to 49 percent of shootings in New York City, mostly over petty disputes

Along with the mass killers and rifle-toting terrorists who are driving the nation’s gun debate are New York’s own gangbangers, who are behind the triggers of nearly half the city’s shootings, officials said.

And when gunplay across the five boroughs turns deadly, gang members are quite often responsible, accounting for 130, or 40%, of the city’s murders this year, police said.

It’s not just the traditional beefs over drugs or money, cops said. Crews are calling each other out over the smallest of slights or — worse yet — the belief that shooting someone will turn a boy into a man.

“It’s a fearsome reality: violence for its own sake,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told the Daily News. “The gun has come to define manhood for these young men, and the willingness to use it has become a rite of passage.”

NYPD UP TO THE CHALLENGE OF GANG VIOLENCE: COMMISSIONER BRATTON