Why am I constantly surprised?
I think that there is something wrong with me. Not that my friends would think so because I think that they have the same view on this as I do in varying degrees but because my way of seeing the world in this manner, the matter-of-fact, everyday filter by which I process is significantly different than the mainstream population, which includes the people I've worked with in electronics, criminal justice, the Air Force, and the Army.
I'm talking about aptitude and sex (female, I mean). I have this strange utopian Star Trek (Next Gen +, not original) filter that automatically assumes that anyone who has the capability (physical and training/education) to do a job should be allowed to do that job. I sometimes get mad when I watch tv and see a lack of women in various jobs and it throws me then I have to remember that in the real world, these jobs aren't held by women that often anyways and it isn't just the employer that is reason but also the women who have the culturally-based idea that they shouldn't do that job because it is dirty or dangerous. Or, on the flip side of the coin, that men shouldn't do the job because it is "hero support" or nuturing (male nurses, day care workers, manicurists).
I don't want to conform, it would kill me inside, so I am happy to live in the Bay Area where aptitude is mostly the ruler here and gender is a matter of choice rather than biology.
Jerry Bruckheimer, thank you. You may not always hit the mark with your shows and movies, but you represent my ideals and show those that are at odds with "normal society" in a light that makes them human and gets others to see them as such. And Earl Hickey, keep working on your list, you are making a difference.
I'm talking about aptitude and sex (female, I mean). I have this strange utopian Star Trek (Next Gen +, not original) filter that automatically assumes that anyone who has the capability (physical and training/education) to do a job should be allowed to do that job. I sometimes get mad when I watch tv and see a lack of women in various jobs and it throws me then I have to remember that in the real world, these jobs aren't held by women that often anyways and it isn't just the employer that is reason but also the women who have the culturally-based idea that they shouldn't do that job because it is dirty or dangerous. Or, on the flip side of the coin, that men shouldn't do the job because it is "hero support" or nuturing (male nurses, day care workers, manicurists).
I don't want to conform, it would kill me inside, so I am happy to live in the Bay Area where aptitude is mostly the ruler here and gender is a matter of choice rather than biology.
Jerry Bruckheimer, thank you. You may not always hit the mark with your shows and movies, but you represent my ideals and show those that are at odds with "normal society" in a light that makes them human and gets others to see them as such. And Earl Hickey, keep working on your list, you are making a difference.