On Jan 11, 2008 7:01 AM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> really. A lot of places I have worked allow in small doses. However, if a
> guy does it he is a good family man. If a woman does it (more than maybe
> once) she is too disorganized to set up proper daycare. Since this is an
> overwhelmingly male list I will probably get some disagreement on this, but
> it is true, nonetheless.
90% of my career has been with 90% women. Education and childcare...
not as many men, ya know?
We used to have little runts running around our office all the time--
we have cable, for receiving certain courses or something, but it has
like discovery or whatever channels too, and we didn't mind watching
out language while around them, answering little questions. They were
all well behaved, though, and it wasn't any big deal.
Oddly, when the next dean took over, this policy (or non-policy-- as I
said, it wasn't a big deal) changed.
I say oddly, because this dean is a woman. Guess that shows a mental
bias (women should enjoy kids, or some meme like that), but the thing
that it made me think about was:
I think women are part of women's problem, ya know? This whole "I
have to be hard, cuz I'm a chick, at work" idea, that is also a meme.
Things of that nature.
Sorta like how I think that a lot of the image problem is caused by
women. Do men /really/ find that super-skinny bit attractive? Maybe,
but the pressure from girls on other girls to look a certain way is
harsh, man.
Chicks can be vicious! :-)
If a co-worker has a problem with it, that should be addressed, but
part of our problem as a society is the lack of interweaving of old
and young.
We don't respect old people no mo, we don't want kids around while
we're "doing stuff" ("researching" porn and making bombs or chemical
warfare stuff should probably not be done around children, I'll give
you that =]).
I've always loved kids tho. Obviously, my inner child ain't too far
below the surface, so it's probably logical. I like to talk to them
like they're "real" people and whatnot-- but that's probably because I
hung out with older kids when I was a kid, and appreciated the
age-less-ness of the meeting of minds.
Maybe it stems from knowing that we can excel far faster when
surrounded with excellence, or something like that.
Like how when you skate with better skaters, you get better
faster, or ski with better skiers, you ski better faster... All
generations should be learning off of/with all generations, is how I
feel.
How this translates to the work place is up for debate, but I really
wish America was a little more "family friendly"...
Eh. Carry on.
--
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is
busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link
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