VIDEO: Sarah Silverman Gets Sex Change to Fight Unequal Pay

“I’m becoming a dude.”

As part of the Equal Payback Project, a fundraising effort dedicated to combating the mythic 22% gender pay gap, feminist Sarah Silverman is getting a sex change.

Known for irreverent gross-out feminist gags—like her pro-abortion "vag napkin" and a skit in which Jesus approves of abortion—Silverman’s latest bit is a video for a faux-crowdsourcing site intended to raise money for the National Women’s Law Center. The goal: to lobby, educate, and advocate for "equal pay." Here’s part of the transcript:

Oh hi, I’m Sarah Silverman. Writer, comedian and vagina owner.

Women make up almost half the working population, yet we typically earn just 78 cents for every dollar a man makes in almost every profession—like doctors, lawyers, teachers, miners, and even the oldest profession of them all, tailors.

Every year the average woman loses around $11,000 to the wage gap. Over the course of the working years of her life that’s almost five-hundred grand.

That’s a $500,000 vagina tax!

That’s why I’m taking matters into my own hands. […]

I’m becoming a dude. 

EqualPaybackProject’s website says its goal is to raise all the money “lost” by women in the workplace, around $30 trillion. So far it claims it’s raised around $70,000. It describes itself as a crowdsourcing endeavor, but explains that in fact all the money is being diverted to the nonprofit NWLC. Of course, once education, occupation, and marital status are figured into the equation, the gender pay gap "all but disappears," but Silverman and the feminist left won't let details get in the way of a good campaign. Here's the description from the site:

Despite the fact that it’s 2014 and you can shave your legs with lasers, the average working woman still makes only 78 cents to a man’s dollar.1

Over the course of a career, that’s $435,049 lost to the wage gap.

With nearly 69 million women in the workplace,2 that’s a total loss of as much as 30 TRILLION FRICKIN DOLLARS.

Clearly, the policies in place don't go far enough. It's time we won the battle we've been fighting for fifty years. It's time we enlisted the Internet.

Ladies, we’re crowdfunding the wage gap.

Cool, but where does the money actually go?

We’re not asking women to literally pay themselves back. That would be silly. Instead, the money raised goes to the National Women’s Law Center, a non-profit group fighting for equal pay through legislation, education and advocacy.

Your donations give NWLC the support it needs to end the insanity. From getting the Paycheck Fairness Act back on the Senate floor, to keeping pregnant women from being forced off the job, to putting an end to ridiculous scheduling practices.

Funding NWLC is our best bet for making equal pay a reality.

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