Saturday, 25 August 2007
I want to play too
Ah, she sighs and thinks ‘in my next life, I want to be one of them’.
A what? What is she thinking? Give up hard fought-for and hard-won power, to have it bestowed by the power of gender?
Yes!
Trade what psychoanalysts have called a ‘veiled sex’ for a dangly bit and two gelatinous round things in a sack of skin.
Why?
They have more time to play. The world just ‘goes on’ for men. Women organise the social events of their joint life – if they have a partner. If they don’t have a partner, there is usually a sister/cousin/mother/aunt who keeps them connected to the family unit and keeps things happening.
At work, men sprout ideas like mushrooms and there’s usually (a female) office junior who will come along behind them and assist with the detail. Even if men do manual work, they usually come home from work to a community where there are women (or at least a woman) who does most of the cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing, filing/fucking etcetera (Those letters, when used as an acronym, form that evil word “WIFE”) .
This is not why I want to be a man in the next life. The reason is that men have more TIME. This is time that they use to “play”.
What do I mean by “play”? No, get your mind/s out of the gutter.
Time to read “tech-blogs”, build model toys, collect eclectic facts (factoids) in their heads. A man in a relationship, without children, usually spends more time luxuriating around the house – reading books, watching TV, playing computer games – than the female partner. She is usually organising shopping, social activities, doing extra work from home and other things.
Because of this work/leisure – brain down-time – differential, I would give up being a woman and become a man. I want to play too.
As is evident from the above: all the years of feminism and equal opportunity have not changed the ‘division of labour’ or ‘time spent doing domestic duties’.
There’s a long way to go.
A what? What is she thinking? Give up hard fought-for and hard-won power, to have it bestowed by the power of gender?
Yes!
Trade what psychoanalysts have called a ‘veiled sex’ for a dangly bit and two gelatinous round things in a sack of skin.
Why?
They have more time to play. The world just ‘goes on’ for men. Women organise the social events of their joint life – if they have a partner. If they don’t have a partner, there is usually a sister/cousin/mother/aunt who keeps them connected to the family unit and keeps things happening.
At work, men sprout ideas like mushrooms and there’s usually (a female) office junior who will come along behind them and assist with the detail. Even if men do manual work, they usually come home from work to a community where there are women (or at least a woman) who does most of the cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing, filing/fucking etcetera (Those letters, when used as an acronym, form that evil word “WIFE”) .
This is not why I want to be a man in the next life. The reason is that men have more TIME. This is time that they use to “play”.
What do I mean by “play”? No, get your mind/s out of the gutter.
Time to read “tech-blogs”, build model toys, collect eclectic facts (factoids) in their heads. A man in a relationship, without children, usually spends more time luxuriating around the house – reading books, watching TV, playing computer games – than the female partner. She is usually organising shopping, social activities, doing extra work from home and other things.
Because of this work/leisure – brain down-time – differential, I would give up being a woman and become a man. I want to play too.
As is evident from the above: all the years of feminism and equal opportunity have not changed the ‘division of labour’ or ‘time spent doing domestic duties’.
There’s a long way to go.
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