Man, blaming "patriarchy" bugs the hell out of me, because I'm from northern European backgrounds, and we've been perfectly fine with female leaders basically forever. Our societies are an equal partnership between men and women, each doing what they're best suited for, but neither dominating the relationship. I know there are fucked up cultures out there which are run by men dominating women, but can we please stop trying to erase the fact that it IS actually possible to get along?
you are assuming that work is intrinsically competitive
That assumption is based upon the idea that working with a broad range of strangers means you can't trust people specifically, so you have to work towards your goals. From that you will end up cooperating naturally with anyone who shares your goals, but you will also have to compete fiercely with those who have goals antagonistic to your own.
Wtf is that this nonsense about the sexes being interchangeable has gone uncontested in popular culture for so long. Even when it's suggested that behaving that way is leading to a rise in mental health issues people are completely unwilling to even discuss the possibility there is something else going on here.
Why is the idea that all of human history before now being completely wrong such an unquestionable truth today?
Are you certain that's how this actually works? Could it be that typical gender roles developed as they did because each of the sexes took on the roles they were suited for, and switching that up isn't as simple as some would like to think?
Personally I'd suggest that men tend to be more competitive, and therefore are more suited to the work environment where you're fighting against various external influences of indeterminate nature, while women tend to be more empathetic, and therefore are more suited to the home environment where seeking consensus and cohesion is more important.
Oh it's certainly possible to do. Just that it's incredibly dangerous, which is why there is an extremely rigorous testing regime in place, taking many, many years, which must be completed before any particular therapy is approved. Many proposed therapies are never able to successfully complete testing because the most common side effects by far are sterility and death.
It's astonishing to me just how confidently people, often those who've never even studied the body, will assert they definitely know how things work. DNA is the big one for me, as there's an entire "layer" of genetic function which we know almost nothing about. We may have mapped the atomic structure of DNA, and identified a number of sequences of base pairs which can be correlated with certain traits, yet how DNA "folds" and why remains almost a complete mystery. Many think that scientists have reached a level where we can splice our genetic code as though it were a computer program to make it do this or that, yet in reality attempts to do so almost never work, usually resulting in sterility or death.
There's been a concerted effort over the last several decades to push a men vs women dynamic online, and most men don't buy into it, so it's really just been people shitting all over men without consequence. Just look at the other answers here focusing exclusively on how men can be blamed (edit: many better replies have been posted since I made this comment).
Quite likely pushed excessively by foreign propaganda.
I guess my point is less about the quality of American care, and more about the quality of Canadian care. I hear so many Americans online hold up the Canadian system as a shining example of what healthcare should be, while I'd do pretty much anything to avoid having to deal with the system up here. It's really a "grass is always greener on the other side" thing both ways I think.
Despite the cost of healthcare in America, the quality is generally seen as the very best there is. Canadian healthcare is so bad that anyone who can afford it will head south to actually get quality treatment, immediately. Up here a friend of my family is probably going to head to Mexico (can't afford American care, sadly) for knee surgery because the waitlist in Canada is far too long and he can't afford to be off work until it's his turn.
America certainly does have it's share of significant problems, but a huge amount of what they seem to eat up is blatant propaganda designed to erode the public's faith in their nation. There's a reason that so many Canadians move to the southern states if they can afford it.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I personally like the feeling of two equal and opposite forces pushing against each other, cancelling each other out and creating a firm, unchanged, structure no matter how much force is applied. I do the same while doing squats sometimes, pressing hands together while descending, and it feels more stable.
It's absolutely worth an entire lifetime of exploration. But dismissing things you can't explain away immediately with chemical processes, as some sort of unknowable sorcery, is exactly why I call it reductive. As far as I'm concerned, maintaining a reverence for the fact that you will never be capable of conclusively explaining such things, because there is vastly more detail involved than even a thousand lifetimes could ever uncover, is necessary if you want to actually begin to learn about what's really happening.
Frankly, this kind of reductive deconstruction of human experience is a huge part of what's going wrong with society. Music is created by people who dedicate themselves to exploring the world we experience, and discovering nuance which evokes feelings that can not be simply explained, betraying the existence of deeper layers of human experience than anything directly available to cold analysis.
Certainly there are then those who copy the form of works created by such artists, who actually do treat music that way, but the result is like the output of a LLM, and repetition of such a style is like training AI on it's own data, progressively degrading what was once there.
It doesn't matter what sort of mental gymnastics or word games you play to try and confuse the issue and convince useful idiots to turn against their own societies. Going after children will always be a hard red line you can not cross without severe consequence.
Try thinking about what those other things are, related to corrupting children, which people are often upset with Israel for, and you might understand why I said it that way here.
Not at all. I'm suggesting that people are upset with Israel for more reasons than just the killing. They kill people because they refuse to stop doing those other things which upset others.
Man, blaming "patriarchy" bugs the hell out of me, because I'm from northern European backgrounds, and we've been perfectly fine with female leaders basically forever. Our societies are an equal partnership between men and women, each doing what they're best suited for, but neither dominating the relationship. I know there are fucked up cultures out there which are run by men dominating women, but can we please stop trying to erase the fact that it IS actually possible to get along?