Go Womyn

I don’t want to come across as trying to pick up by showing an active interest in the women’s lib movement. Infact I think a lot of vocal contributers to feminism have set the movement back. I read in Growth Fetish by Clive Hamilton that women set them selves back by settling for equality when men themselves aren’t free. Anyway I got in a shit fight once with a girl dealing with an inane hypothetical where I was a manager interviewing two prospective employees with identical credentials and different genders that knowing nothing else I would pick the male candidate simply because we had gender in common as in last remaining common trait between me and him.
Needless to say I sufficiently unimpressed the female counterpart. Since working in an office type scenario I understand what it’s like in the workforce for women (a little better) institutionalised male management is a reality, in my student career I never encountered any real established hierarchies because the turnover of students is far greater than that of managers. Companies have management from the 80’s, 70’s and 60’s and boards from the 50’s and 40’s. Furthermore I discovered that whilst men have a tendency to form clubs to help each other along their career paths and generally be self congratulatory women tend to compete with each other and make their lives so much harder.
Most unhappy people I know have one trait in common which is the belief that life should be fair. You know the real victim mentality but the attitude is all wrong. If you are at a natural disadvantage the best attitude is to accept it. If you have to work twice as hard to get where you want to because you’re a woman don’t forget that it’s to get what you want. Sitting back and complaining about it being unfair isn’t doing you any favours and nobody else cares. You should be doing it for you anyway to achieve the lifestyle’s you want and if you are disadvantaged so much more the sense of accomplishment when you get there. Man has turned every facet of life into a game and with all games there is a natural tendency to increase more rules and complexities with the intention of making the process more difficult for the purpose of increasing fun and satisfaction. Oscar Wilde said ‘Life is far too important to be taken seriously’ and he’s right. There isn’t any point whining about rules because the only rules that should be enforced are the physical laws. All the rest is just custom, rights are infact an invention of society that can disappear in a plane crash, a flood or a foreign invasion. There is no devine rights nor is equality necessarily as positive an ideal as it sounds. I would like to live in a world where people no matter what circumstances they are born into are pushing themselves to maximise their potential regardless. If people where doing this, exploring new areas then of course there’d be inequality but more to the point life would be new and surprising and empowering.
Anyway from all these musings identical credentials between two candidates of opposite gender probably go the opposite way to my original ignorant assumption I’d pick the female because trhose same credentials are worth twice as much, and by extention she’s twice as good. But don’t get me wrong guys milk any advantage you can get and aim high everyone should try and push the boundaries and whilst the ladies may be disadvantaged it doesn’t make them any smarter, professional or better than us. And we can grow facial hair and it’s socially acceptable.