A piece written by a female lawyer for Quillette. I posted the sorts of comments I generally do in response to such pieces, and was pleased to get this reply from Sue Smith, an Australian lady:
“Meanwhile, lobby for those quotas in the aforementioned hard graft jobs; working out in the Western Australian mining industry in 45 degree plus heat, just for starters. Did you hear about the female Captain of a NZ navy ship who ran the ship aground about 3 months ago off Samoa? She was a diversity hire. Gosh, you’ve got to have lots of money to be able to afford sacrificing a navy ship for the sake of activism.
It’s not about higher profits and corporate boards, it’s about “shove over, I want the kind of job you’ve got”. No more and no less. Though there are some savvy women in high profile jobs, and I’m glad of this, there are not enough of them to declare quotas are good for anybody except the women themselves. As Jordan Peterson says, women are more agreeable than men and maybe agreeableness isn’t an exceptional quality to have in the ruthless world of business.
My son is divorced and 45yo and he is encountering women with the attitudes which are promoted in diversity hires and quotas. Sitting behind them on the bus en route to work he also hears these kinds of conversations. He despairs of ever finding a non-woke female anywhere, but did say the Kenyan women he has befriended are not at all like this.
And are you aware that (in Australia, at least) there are literally armies of 30 something women who cannot partner and have no children? That demographic is now stretching into the 40s as these childless women age. The men don’t want the trouble. My son has said, “at my age it’s far easier for me to find available women than it is to start building my asset base from ground zero again”.
At my grandson’s primary school in Perth teachers (all-female staff) have forbidden any references to Xmas and to Xmas wrapping on Secret Santa. No references to Christ or Christmas allowed. Yet it’s OK for “Chinese New Year”, muslims to celebrate Ramadan and Indians Dawali. Australia is on a suicide mission and for this I blame the increasingly feminized workforce and the Left side of politics. (My son is putting both his boys into a Christian school for the start of 2025. Let’s just see a Christian school banning Christmas!)
As the eldest of 4 females in our family I am appalled by the modern behaviour of women; the staggering sense of entitlement, the arrogance and you know what else drives me crackers? Women with baby voices talking at NASA about space and rockets.
If you’ve got a PhD in Physics, girls, my heartiest congratulations – but try to develop a less gushy mien and presentation which reflects the seriousness of that instead of ‘Barbie works at NASA’!! I’m looking at you, Americans.”
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Probably the most apposite comment on this piece “The author is missing a key element in this type of discussion. She is expecting that coherent arguments and logic count for something. In my experience they can only get you in trouble.” Is the truth as ideology is what drives the agenda. Meanwhile in uber feminist Sweden Sweden’s ‘soft girl’ trend that celebrates women quitting work – BBC News one of the effects of “Preference Theory”, that women are less work oriented in general, continues to bother them as women choose not to support themselves by their labour. Which shouldn’t really surprise them as a decade ago their research into why Swedish women crowded into Sweden’s public sector, rather than its efficient private sector, was precisely because this supplied well paid jobs with plenty of time off and where “full time” was on average 10 hours a week less than F/T in the private sector and there were far more P/T roles. The “solution” then proposed was to get men to work less! With mandatory paternity leave and attempts to limit hours.
The author points out the likely effect of all this, a reduction in efficiency and profitably with dire results as comfortable western economies face challenges from developing countries. “On 2 October, President Macron warned the audience during a panel discussion at the Berlin Global Dialogue: “The EU could die, we are on the verge of a very important moment. … Our former model is over. We are over-regulating and underinvesting. In the next two or three years, if we follow our classical agenda, we will be out of the market.” Of course they “pussy foot” around one of the drivers for all this regulation, feminist ideology. Norway can afford to virtue signal because their oil revenues mean every Norwegian could retire tomorrow and their sovereign fund could support them all. Sadly for the rest of the Continent (including the isles off its western coast) they will have to earn their living.
A corrosive effect is of course that this belief that money and jobs simply are there to be “given” starts to infect the thinking of both women and men, with the latter starting to emulate the idea of being dependent. And of course a crazy idea that “the Government” should “provide” the sorts of jobs that fit in with what is wanted by young women in particular. For well over a decade there has been about 30% of the workforce “overqualified” Almost a third of graduates ‘overeducated’ for their job – BBC News and as in the recurrent articles from the Beeb and Grauniad on this the examples are usually female, as in this recent article in the Telegraph (7th Nov)PressReader.com – Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions Along side ONS stats one can see that generally its the softer degree subjects that are involved, so one can reasonably assume that of the Telegraph’s 37% of graduates who reckon they are grossly underpaid it is more likely to be females who flock into what the Americans call “Liberal Arts” Degrees, who find the jobs for PR, HR, Media, Publishing, Administration etc. are limited. And the public sectors ability to generate cushy office (or indeed WFH) jobs is not unlimited.
We should, but won’t, take note of Greece exhorting its workforce to work 6 day weeks to climb out of their economic hole. Meanwhile here the Gov. advocates quotas, lots of leave, sick leave, reduced days working and time off for everything and anything that is “triggering” and supports WFH. While raising taxes and ramping up borrowing to fund it! And for all these the big driver is “support for women”. Macron’s dire warning applies here.
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“Norway can afford to virtue signal, because of its oil revenues…”
Oh, those revenues can be sequestered by changing ‘International Law’ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/world/icj-climate-change-opinion-hearings.html
We’ll all have to sing from the same songsheet, or we’ll be committing a ‘crime’ https://www.jstor.org/stable/24113621
With all the ‘reparations’ we’re going to be paying, there’s not going to be much left in the kitty for virtue signalling.
This is what happens when power is handed to those who mostly don’t understand how male competition, and the resulting meritocracy, is the bedrock of civilisation, innovation, justice and ethics. Although there’s always the occasional woman who does: https://www.denisecummins.com/uploads/1/1/8/2/11828927/cummins_2019_encyc_ev_psy_sci.pdf
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