| O, another thread of men-are-pitiful-victims, and nostalgia for the Good Old Days when women were chattel, etc. & etc. and you're all a bunch of wimps.
The idea of all men being created equal thoroughly confuses female reproductive programming, which wants to see some scheme out there for separating the alpha males from the chaff. A society where the alpha males cannot really be identifed until they are almost 40 years old presents an enormous challenge to women. Time was, they could just look for the brutes at 15 or 16, and the same guys would still be king of the hill thirty years later. Now some nerd like Bill Gates, who probably couldn't get a date except with Mary Louise Girthwaist, turns out the billionaire... while the guy who was captain of the football team is now a meter reader for the gas company. Oh, for the days when you could just look for the guys with Duke or Earl in front of their names, and be done with it. See, this is what's wrong with Title IX. The whole thing with high school and college athletics that the males can demonstrate how fast they can run and how high they can jump so that the girls can tell which of them are alpha males. Most girls could care less about jumping high and running fast themselves, they want the boys doing that so they can see which of them are the high jumpers and the fast runners. Today of course Bill Gates ends up the billionaire, but this is an age-old system and everybody pretends that it still has some predictive value. So women have to operate in this thoroughly confusing place where any one of these nerds might turn out to be an alpha, and where brutishness — while exciting for some of those same age-old reasons — is almost a contra-indicator of future potential. What to do? Raise the bar, and find some more bars to raise. Here's an idea: let's have the government squeeze these guys with every kind of arbitrary and discriminatory measure, and see which ones make it through the screen. Let's go compete with them ourselves in their so-called labor force and see which ones we can knock out and send to the botttom. Let's fill the whole culture with messages that tell little boys that they are genetic defectives who really ought not be here at all. A whole bunch of 'em won't make it past that one, and some more of the chaff will be eliminated. Are women really sitting around consciously thinking such things? Hell, most people don't think... period. They just do stuff. But stratifying society to identify alpha males is a major need of female reproductive programming, and that goes pretty deep. It's probably down there in the lizard brain at the base of the skull, so it ain't going away. So what does your note have to do with that? Well, shreiking at men that they are not to take down the bars, they are to jump over them, is part of making monkey rules work. "I am sick of hearing from men about this airplane we built that crashes half the time and leaves them dead. If they weren't such wimps, they'd just get on the damned thing." Well, dead is a big number. Men will jump over the hurdles and block for the running back, but this deal of losing your kids and your house and being sentenced to twenty years of grinding poverty... naww, screw that. That can only lead to more shrieking, because there's some reason to suspect that a man who won't get on an airplane that is known to crash frequently is a potential alpha. So instead of being some sort of courage test, this really high bar we put up turns out to screen against alphas. Oh well, let's try shaming them into it... we'll tell 'em they're pitiful wimps, and immature, and irresponsible for not getting on the crashing plane. That'll work on at least some of 'em, at least until we come up with something else. |
I hope you won't mind (you probably will, but too bad) if I use your note as an example of how women subconciously push the world toward monkey rules.