Laeserin @Laeserin - 5d
Pretty women, who insist of having hard, manly occupations are...
Yeah, probably. Plumbers, programmers, and prostitutes.
By whom?
What should those people have told them, instead?
Ah, yeah. That's true. But manly jobs tend to pay more, so that suggests higher demand. I meant "insist" because everyone expects them to marry someone rich and just lie about the pool or go shopping, or whatever. I mean, why work at all, right? And why something hard?
Like nursing? Yeah. I'm thinking someone good at hard manly things isn't gonna be as good at the womanly things.
I was in the same position you're in. 😂 At home with the little kids, but mentally off in engineering land. Teaching math and rhetoric classes for homeschoolers, and catechism classes, was my only reprieve. I wasn't bad at it, but... yeah. The other women were better. I'm better at not sleeping with the gardner or blowing the milk money on shoes, tho. Last time I was at home with the kids, I got into Bitcoin. 😂 Staying true to type.
And to not feel like they're just decoration.
Oh How Darling 🥰
Just occured to me, that I dealt with not doing hard manly stuff by doing hard womanly stuff. Can't engineer? Teach logic lessons. 😂
I so wish I could have more kids. I've got the worst baby rabies, sometimes. 😭
liminal @liminal - 5d
archtypically- perhaps its not feminine to have a drive to put a dent in the universe, so maybe opposite drive would be to keep things together. I imagine both drives exist in tension with one another, to which actions are a realization of one dominating over another given the circumstance
I sometimes babysit my nephews. They're adorable.
A lot of it is probably just displaced sexual energy.
So, you think they're primarily motivated by outside influences?
That's true. Women couldn't really be knights or blacksmiths, back in the day. But don't you think technological changes mean that there's less reason for women to not engage in those activities?
Displaced, channeled, but definitely not misplaced
Also probably an effect of smaller families, with fewer sons.
One of the daughters becomes the proto-son.
Its interesting to think about. Early in life we're so eager to cartograph our senses so that we can navigate the word. Makes sense that the things that have the most impact early on orients ourselves to mirror that impact later on through through internalizing and reinterpretation. You start off at the top of a mountain point and even the slightest breeze can set you off, biased to an orientation.
