Back in the day I had a boss that complained about his underlings "going off at tangents." Instead of putting our shoulders to the wheel, and getting on with the job at hand, we would annoyingly engage with side issues. In software, of course, there is always the temptation to polish up the code and make it more elegant.
Of course, there is one little problem with polishing up code. You introduce new bugs into the code. Not good.
So now a good little girl at the New York Times is writing about a 35-year-old lawyer married to a 35-year-old lawyer that is now lawyering 21 hours a week and looking after the kids while hubby works insane hours, 60 hours a week. Says the headline "Women Did Everything Right: Then Work Got Greedy.'"
Then follows a thousand words of feminist conventional wisdom.
Let's put the whole thing in black and white.
The job of women -- human females -- is to put babies on the ground. Everything else is "going off at tangents."
The job of men is to protect a woman and her babies until the babies leave the nest. Everything else is "going off at tangents."
And boy, do we moderns go off at tangents these days. We do it, of course, because we are rich and can afford it.
What sort of tangents? Oh, women like the idea of careers. Men like the idea of a creative life. Women imagine themselves as politicians; men imagine easing off from work. Women like to fluff up their nests; men like to have hobbies. And both sexes are learning to mess about with sex.
All of this stuff is a distraction. Because if women don't have babies, then humans go extinct. If men don't protect their women and their children, then the little ones don't survive to adulthood.
If the last few days I have seen a couple articles about how the decline in religion goes hand in hand with decline in fertility. I wonder if humans need religion to keep them from going off at tangents?
I was talking with acquaintances the other day and one of us was talking about women and careers as if it was the default thing for women to do, and that to hinder a woman in this interfered with the whole meaning of her life.
I said nothing, because what can you say? Folks living in the liberal bubble have no idea. And they won't appreciate someone popping the bubble, especially a racist, sexist, homophobe like me.
I dare say it will all end with a movement of well-born women going back to religion and children and family.
Because even though we humans have a constant itch to go off at tangents, we still know in our heart of hearts what we should be doing.
Notice the headline "Women Did Everything Right." Does that not exactly align with my notion of the woman's Culture of Complaint? For the instinct in every woman is that if she does everything right then, of course, her life should be happy and perfect; and if it is not, someone is to blame.
Of course, there is one little problem with polishing up code. You introduce new bugs into the code. Not good.
So now a good little girl at the New York Times is writing about a 35-year-old lawyer married to a 35-year-old lawyer that is now lawyering 21 hours a week and looking after the kids while hubby works insane hours, 60 hours a week. Says the headline "Women Did Everything Right: Then Work Got Greedy.'"
Then follows a thousand words of feminist conventional wisdom.
Let's put the whole thing in black and white.
The job of women -- human females -- is to put babies on the ground. Everything else is "going off at tangents."
The job of men is to protect a woman and her babies until the babies leave the nest. Everything else is "going off at tangents."
And boy, do we moderns go off at tangents these days. We do it, of course, because we are rich and can afford it.
What sort of tangents? Oh, women like the idea of careers. Men like the idea of a creative life. Women imagine themselves as politicians; men imagine easing off from work. Women like to fluff up their nests; men like to have hobbies. And both sexes are learning to mess about with sex.
All of this stuff is a distraction. Because if women don't have babies, then humans go extinct. If men don't protect their women and their children, then the little ones don't survive to adulthood.
If the last few days I have seen a couple articles about how the decline in religion goes hand in hand with decline in fertility. I wonder if humans need religion to keep them from going off at tangents?
I was talking with acquaintances the other day and one of us was talking about women and careers as if it was the default thing for women to do, and that to hinder a woman in this interfered with the whole meaning of her life.
I said nothing, because what can you say? Folks living in the liberal bubble have no idea. And they won't appreciate someone popping the bubble, especially a racist, sexist, homophobe like me.
I dare say it will all end with a movement of well-born women going back to religion and children and family.
Because even though we humans have a constant itch to go off at tangents, we still know in our heart of hearts what we should be doing.
Notice the headline "Women Did Everything Right." Does that not exactly align with my notion of the woman's Culture of Complaint? For the instinct in every woman is that if she does everything right then, of course, her life should be happy and perfect; and if it is not, someone is to blame.
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