We have our socially assigned
duties, my wife cooks, I clean the kitchen, my wife changes the bedding, I
carry out the garbage, my wife silently reads female porn while I watch
football, my wife hides my stuff, and then I search for my stuff. All
activities agreed to be normal behavior. There is an imbalance in these
arrangements and women got the better of the deal.
This is not immediately apparent,
women are paid less, women carry the burden of family obligations, and women
work harder for the same success. All this, and much more, argues that women do
not enjoy the advantages of a true meritocracy.
Women got the better deal of greater
expectations, women have a greater range of decisions, and women have a larger
future to select from. Note the set of any television talking head panel, the
men are all dressed the same, for the male participant, first select a dark
suit, chose between white or blue shirt, and then add a sufficiently neutral
tie. The women can select from a wide range of colorful attire. Being on TV all
panel members have makeup, the men just enough so they don’t look sick, the
women can accent facial features or make their eyes striking. Women can even do
a “make over”, completely changing their public manifestation. A “make over”
for a male associate would be a marketing disaster. This vastly increased set
of possibilities force women to spend time and mental effort on a wider range
of life. One immediate result is that women are exciting while men are boring.
Over a longer time frame women are thinking more than men.
More females are completing college
than males, females are displacing males in congress, the greater hardships
that women face are forcing them to become more successful by dealing with
those hardships.
As a male I certainly don’t wish to
start doing a “make over” or to upgrade my fashion selections. Men do need
more pressure on them to expand, the agreed social duties and roles need to be redefined,
just not by me. I am content being fat, dumb and happy.
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