An interesting piece by Allen Frantzen for Quillette.
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“efficiency, results, drive, focused on results, assesses and values productivity: it values what you get done” “Masculine energy” it turns out is simply about business being competitive. And one can see when “big tech” had seen off (or bought) competition there was lots of money to indulge in “play”. Now the things described need not be exclusive to males, and I doubt years ago anyone considered that these could be taught by Business schools and “mentors”. However such a practical strategy was eschewed by feminists, who instead are so wedded to playing the victim that they have in fact created the very idea of “Masculine energy” by insisting women and feminine “energy” is the opposite of the behaviours required for a competitive, productive and profitable business. According to feminists women are a mass of “mental health” problems, they lack confidence, they are distracted by their home life, distracted by their children, distracted by their elderly mothers, they suffer from “imposter syndrome, get “brain fog”, can barely function through menopause or menstruation, lack confidence and require lots of “flexibility”, which generally is code for “less work”. Unsurprisingly, given all this, feminists have painted the “female friendly” workplace as one that sympathises with this parade of problems and forgets there are things to be done, faster and more efficiently than rivals. It is they who have created the idea of the “feminine” as being everything most likely to prevent a business being successful, and therefore more likely to go down to rivals; specially those with cultures that focus on results and value productivity, whatever the sex of their workforce.
Much is made of the UKs inability to improve its productivity since 2008, blame is often laid at importing cheap labour and this may be a part of it. But another is the erosion of the work ethic symbolised by the recent revelations that the Chair of a Justice quango conducted meetings from her villa in Montenegro while her female CEO manages to pop into her office “once or twice a month”. Leading by example in the “feminine” approach to prioritise everything and anything above actually getting the job done! We will quite simply get poorer and poorer and eventually run out of credit to fund our “lifestyle”.
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