working women

WOMEN WORKERS

( before we start-many thanks, Scott.  I much appreciate the book.  Remember, minions, a book is the same as saying that I am as a god amongst men but since you all share a vengeful god that won't share you must merely sacrifice a tree to me )

I know I’ve been a tad harsh at times with the female species.  Not so harsh as to deserve the Hater label, but I’ll admit my ability to explore the issue in depth rationally might have been clouded by the Super Satan Spawn who merely used me for a sperm bank ( we do have some mighty fine kids-I’ll bow to her judgment on mating material ) and a wallet ( I know I don’t make much now but back when those papers were signed she was getting a hefty portion of a nice retail managers salary ).  Now, without the financial pressure, it is just an intellectual puzzle that is fun to solve.  Let’s place the ground rules, anthropologically speaking.  For almost all the history of us as a species, hunter and gatherers, males and females have both worked equally hard.  Males usually in short intense bursts and females in long energy conserving stretches.  The calories and effort were the same but used differently.  The guy might work up a sweat falling a couple of trees while the gal kept up after the kids and laundry and cooking.  Males would hunt game for two days, moving most of that time followed by a burst of energy to kill, while the females stayed home, a kid strapped to her back as she gathered nuts and berries.  Both did what evolution had designed them for ( which is why, really, we are different species ) and neither could readily survive without the other. 

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Work-wise, even farming didn’t change much.  The women did the time consuming light work ( I’m not saying scrubbing wash isn’t hard work, just that physically women can’t work much heavier loads constantly ) and men the heavier chores.  Both worked all day and neither could survive without the other.  Even the start of the Industrial Revolution didn’t change a lot in the work place, as far as effecting gender dominance.  Women took more time to deliver kids, but by and large if they were in an area where factory work wanted women, they worked there ( this wouldn’t apply in, say, a mining town ).  The men in the heavier labor, the women in the lighter more repetitive factories.  Then came FDR, the puke, with his Social Security, and split up the three generational family ( it took awhile to unfold, but that is the end result ) and for good measure put women to work in heavier industry as the sole breadwinner ( the males military pay probably less than sufficient to cover household expenses )( the same was going on with the Russians, with similar results- Russian women are more inclined at divorce than Americans, even ).  Things might have calmed down after the war, tradition roles reaffirmed, but I’m convinced Rosie The Riveter was the grandmother of the women’s rights movement ( follow the money ) and not Susan B. Anthony or some other homely bitch. 

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Now, don’t get me wrong.  I’m not saying the movement shouldn’t have happened, per se.  Even if slavery is going to return, good riddance to it while this historical anomaly lasts, and even if women’s lib will die out at the end of the Oil Age, I can’t say we should have kept them oppressed as long as we did.  I object to the harm it has done to family structure and eroded its stability, but I don’t object to women having more basic human rights.  I’m just saying that an ordered society always has some restrictions for all genders that isn’t palatable to the individual.  And the effect on freeing women to work has been the females liberation.  Total, economic liberation.  They don’t need males, and while a lot of gals are burning their bras and braiding their armpit hair in celebration, cultural cohesiveness has died.  When both genders worked and needed the others contribution, family stability, extended even to the tribe, was there.  When a gal doesn’t need a man to survive, you get a dysfunctional family ( as you do when old folks are farmed out to Florida and Arizona mobile homes, away from the kids and grandkids ).  I’m not talking about making males dominant and females submissive.  I’m not some crazy Christian cult leader ( we got a lot of them back West here- but the Mammon Church is too gentrified to qualify anymore ).  That does not make for a stable community long term ( I’d submit the Amish as an example, crazy craphouse rat bastards, and the escape clause prior to adulthood is more to relieve land/population pressure than an outlet from repression ).  No, rather than submissiveness, one should allow subservience, and only in the field that gender commands.  If the man works, they move on his command.  If there is mortal danger, Dad is in charge.  But how the kids will be raised? How the home will be run? Only a damn fool thwarts his wife on that one.  And he sure as hell should listen to her tell him about the real politics in the community ( as opposed to the official politics which is no more that hooting and hollering by local shake down artists on command from the state and federal colonial masters ).

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Now, break up that partnership because of women’s lib ( I don’t need no stinkin man! ).  Instead of two parts joining to be more than the sum of their parts, each goes their own way and manages both once gender specific tasks poorly ( just as old people live less productive lives alone, as do their grandchildren without wiser guidance ).  Who has won here except the bankers and businesses cashing in on twice the consumption and governments dividing and conquering?  Don’t you think we kind of threw the baby out with the bathwater?  I really don’t think this is sour grapes on my part ( I’m totally rudderless out here dating/mating wise.  Women don’t need me for much of anything, especially at my age since although I’m pretty and endowed they aren’t having much beyond the occasional urge.  And since they make as much or more money, I don’t even try anymore there ).  I’ve pretty much made my peace here.  Now its just an interesting ponderable.  Just another tragicomedy.  For you guys, you already know the dangers.  For you gals, remember that when it happens the blowback is going to be extreme before things settle back to historical norms.

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