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Are men and women racing in the wrong direction?
Why does society seem to think that it is more important to work as a lawyer than to raise healthy children and live in a home with quality? How did we get brainwashed into thinking that doing “stretch assignments” in law is more important than being with the people you love and who love you back?
Why are people choosing a lifestyle with awful quality-of-life?
Who decided that slaving away in an office is more rewarding than caring for your home and family?
And who decide that it should be men who should be condemned to spend more time with their back-stabbing colleagues at the office, rather than women?
How did we get into this Kafkaesque situation in which men feel proud of doing these shitty roles at work, and women fight hard to gain access to those same shitty roles? Meanwhile, nobody (neither men nor women) wants to take care of the kids and home, because those roles are regarded as “second class?”
Why is it so difficult for society to find arrangements in which both performance at work AND caring for the home & family are regarded as EQUALLY important, and both roles are equally shared by men and women?
If we continue to reinforce the idea that work is more important than raising kids and/or enjoying a nice home, we will continue to witness this stupid competition between men and women who fight for equal rights to… slave away at inhuman activities.
Thank God the robots are coming to take over these stupid jobs… But then we will be forced to face what it means to be human… And we will have to figure out how men and women should share roles in the family and learn to care for each other and for their kids.
