Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Comment on women civilizing men
So I watched a video(actually video about that video) where a "former" feminist says that women civilize men. And that's the reason men need women. I'm not going to address her other subtle insults against men, but here's what I think of this civilizing stuff: I'd like to share my take on that civilizing thing: I think women confuse "civil" with pretty, neat and clean. Which all are things that waste energy. For example: people who aren't fashionable or doesn't follow the lastest trends, are thought to be "less" or some cases not civilized at all, so let's look at fashion: women's high heel shoes - impractical, 3-piece suit - impractical, tie - useless.
What I mean impractical is that they give no advantage, there is no "+50% to agility" in a suit, or having a tie doesn't add 10% to your intelligence (don't say anything about charisma!) yet those things consume energy to wear and to maintain. Wearing cargo pants will add to your inventory space and allow better range of motion compared to fashionable clothing, but they are considered to be.. unnatu... unfashionable and worn by less civilized people. Practical people are usually considered uncivilized, because they aren't wasting energy on stuff. They aren't trying to make everything spotless and shiny, because there is no real advantage to it. This is not be confused with not cleaning at all or when needed, many things require maintenance so they don't break or cause health hazards. Let's put it like this: If you crash landed on a distant planet all alone, would you be scrubbing every inch of everything or would you be doing it only when needed? Would your fashion be fabulous? If you lived alone, there wouldn't be anything else but the things you've made yourself. You'd have to balance the energy consumption between maintaining yourself and inventing new stuff, so there really is no excess time or energy to keep everything neat and pretty, no more than necessary. So after few years of this kind of living, let's introduce a second crash lander(the gender actually really means nothing in this scenario, though it might act as a multiplier;) he/she would have to do everything by him-/herself, but won't because he/she already sees your achievements and the motivation to invent the wheel again, so to say, is non-existent. Let's say you accept this other person to live with you, out of loneliness or empathy. Would you let him/her do the stuff he/she is unable to? Can you really spare the energy/time to teach him/her to operate your equipment, because they aren't very user friendly and are made by your understanding for your understanding. Or is there enough time/energy to teach him/her to built their own and if so, is he/she really willing to go through that trouble because he/she already has them in a way? Either way, you'd have teach everything you know (And then what would happen? Sith's rule of two stuff) So you assign cleaning and scrubbing to him/her. Eventually that becomes something he/she takes pride in(that's the being civil thing means, a label to feel better and superior "my way is the right way"), and it becomes a norm and there would be unnecessary cleaning out of boredom perhaps, which consumes extra energy, and you'd have to solve that, you'd have to waste (both of) your energy on his/her energy wasting. After balancing that he/she "neats" and "pretties" all the time, never bored, but there's no advancement in it, no "glory". So then the demands begin, why can't he/she operate your tools and stuff etc.. and the answer to that is: build your own tools and stuff. There is no entitlement other than the one you make for yourself. I hope you can make the connection. tl;dr: no. What I'd like to add to this is that nothing changes if more people are added to the mix.
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