Thursday, March 3, 2005

Women Complaining That Modern Life Is Like Sooooo Complicated

I see a lot of women complaining that modern life is like sooooo totallllyyy hard.  "All the forces in this modern world, that take their toll upon a modern girl."  Ah, is that a joke?

You seriously think modern life is hard?  Erm, no, it really is not.

Why is it considered such a huuuuuggge accomplishment for a woman to be independent?  Why should a woman receive applause and commendation if she can hold some typical office job and can pay bills on time?  Do grown adult men receive standing ovation and congratulations and pats on the back simply because they can function in normal society?  No, and they should not.  Likewise, neither should grown adult women receive praise and accolades just for being normal.  This is what you are supposed to do.  This is how grown-ups take care of themselves.

Navigate in modern society....  Do you at least have the capacity to make it to the bathroom in time without peeing on your socks?  Are your standards for women's life skills so phenomenally low that it is a huge [[[feat__of life ]]]] simply for a woman to be able to live a conscious life [[[[REWORD]] ?

I have heard people say that it is an astonishing feat and a huge leap for girl power if a woman can balance her checkbook.  I have heard since I was a little child that balancing a checkbook is suuuccch a monumental, arduous task.  So I then assumed, again when I was little, that it must be quite the demanding task.  Imagine my surprise when I discovered after that that it is not difficult at all.

I've had a bank account since I was fifteen.  Balancing a checkbook is not that hard.  As a matter of fact, it is quite easy.  You simply make sure you have more money coming in than you have going out.  You make sure you don't spend more money than you possess.  That's it.  It is simple addition and subtraction.

(((perh here put the thingg, abt, how,, men's life sucks and women's life sucks.  b c both have their reasons why they have to put their own feelings or their  own expression fo feelings or their own needs last and instead have to take consideration of others' needs first.))))

Elsewhere I have heard quotes that people think the world is much more complicated than it used to be.  Also not true.

In past lifetimes, a single person or a single family had to take care of ALL of its own needs.  Just living everyday, normal, day-to-day life was grueling.  A family had to produce everything for itself.  They had to chop their own firewood to create their own heat for their home.

Nowadays you can just pop down to your local grocery store and have a wealth of plentitude at your disposal.  Almost every type of food you can possibly imagine and reasonably fathom is there for your choosing.  You don't have to make your own bread from scratch.  You don't have to grow your own chickens from scratch.

You can purchase a used vehicle and then instantly have all the world open to you to explore.  Or at least the surrounding cities and states, and then stay in a hotel overnight at the midway point, and then the next day you have all the other states open to you.

In the past, people had no such reliable, consistent, constant purification systems on which to depend.  A single family had to take care of ALL those needs, no matter how deceptively trivial.  That's why they all had amoebic dysentery and diphtheria back then.

The city takes care of all that for you.
so many tasks must go into consideration[[IMPLEMENTATION, must be,, so many needs must be met,]]]] for being able to live a modern civilized, clean life, 9((REWORD)))
society has to work together in a cohesive, synchronized whole,, must function as one unit [[[metnion like, wheels cogs turning in a machinery or clockwork]]]

You push a button and have clean, decontaminated, purified running water.  Within a few seconds, you can have hot, clean, decontaminated, purified running water.  You flip a switch and have electricity and light instantly.  You can go to the library and have any information you need.

Women have far more rights today in modern western, first-world society and economy than we have had in previous history ever.  Women have far more choices today than they had in previous history ever.