No excuse for evil

I don't disagree with the point made here: http://youtu.be/YaqrNUKqsZg about 21st Century western media excusing women from moral responsibility and so infantilising them.

I do take issue, though, with whether women in a successful society are really capable of being evil.

Evil is slippery, but maybe best defined as behaviour that threatens a society from growing successfully, given the conditions of the time. Since continued societal success depends on reproduction and reproduction depends on the scarce resources possessed (to date) by women, is it so surprising that women can do virtually no evil?

Think of it this way: suppose one society imprisons it's women in single sex prisons at the same rate as it imprisons its men. Its neighbouring society's courts imprison their women hardly at all. Which society grows fastest?

Of course, this argument prohibits gender equality unless and until reproductive resources are available to all. But, then, that is no great surprise either.

Floods, inflation and the media

Standing on your doorstep you anxiously look down past the Environment Agency official's Wellington boots at the flood waters, now just millimetres from your hallway.

"Don't panic" says the official, fresh from listening to the BBC's recent inflation report "the rate at which the water level is increasing has gone down, so there's nothing to worry about!"

21st Century Equality

Proof that man and woman, husband and wife, are completely equal in 2014. In the same weather disaster surrounding their mother's little cottage/castle they do exactly the same things. And here's the proof:

Ambition

I used to think that maybe I lacked ambition. I've come to realise that isn't true. It's just that my ambition is different: to be free from having to do something someone else wants me to do.

Maybe that is one of the greatest ambitions?

Feminism: the quintessential Mad Fad

A must-watch presentation.

Pursue your nightmare!

Life-gurus will tell you: "Pursue your dreams".

I have news.

It doesn't work.

Sorry.

Not for most of us.

Many of the things you have to do to pursue anything, you won't want to do. Nagging, cajoling, bartering, dealing with strangers, losing friends, making detailed and consistent plans, re-making those plans time and again... None of that is much fun, I don't care who you are.

You can make it a bit better, though. You can improve things slightly.

I'll tell you how.

Decide to do something you know you should do but you really don't want to. You really don't want to.

If you do that right then everything else you need to do becomes easier. It gains the attraction of a displacement activity. Amazingly, it can even become almost fun.

That's as good as it gets, I'm afraid, but it's better than not pursuing your nightmare.

Equality ain't natural

Equality isn't suited to this world at this time. Maybe when nature is tamed a whole lot more - but even that is unlikely, she's just too powerful and she insists on competition.