Jan 17·edited Jan 17Liked by Nathalie Martinek PhD
males and females Are very different in how they solve problems. perhaps they need different systems to bring out the best in each? in ancient cultures we do see this. there are high status men and women, but they get there differently, they have different arenas, or locus of control. the phrase "the had that rocks the cradle rules the world". mothers, can be bullies to their children, or choose not to. there needs to be a feminine culture that supports her to be better than that. some kind of self examination. re inforcement of maybe a moral structure of virtue....have you heard of ash circles? i think this would be a good remedy.
Yeah, this absolutely motivates me to stick with being a self-employed freelance writer. No matter how hard it is sometimes, it is not like some office situations where you truly have no rights. You mentioned the role of discrimination against women in fueling this sense that women can do no wrong, and I concur that being a victim means never having to say you're sorry.
At what point will women's rights have advanced enough for women to acknowledge that they are human and their shit stinks too? I know things were really hard for the baby boom generation. My book Impossible Dreams contains an oral history interview with two baby boomer women who talked about how, in their lifetime, women couldn't have their own credit cards. I can understand how some women of that generation would have lasting hard feelings about that type of egregious mistreatment. Fortunately, I, a woman born in 1986, was able to fund Impossible Dreams on credit cards — a few years after I abandoned office work over a situation with a boomer woman where nothing I did was ever enough to compensate for her lifetime of suffering.
Do you foresee this problem of woman on woman bullying in the workplace improving at all after the baby boom generation finally fully retires?
males and females Are very different in how they solve problems. perhaps they need different systems to bring out the best in each? in ancient cultures we do see this. there are high status men and women, but they get there differently, they have different arenas, or locus of control. the phrase "the had that rocks the cradle rules the world". mothers, can be bullies to their children, or choose not to. there needs to be a feminine culture that supports her to be better than that. some kind of self examination. re inforcement of maybe a moral structure of virtue....have you heard of ash circles? i think this would be a good remedy.
Yeah, this absolutely motivates me to stick with being a self-employed freelance writer. No matter how hard it is sometimes, it is not like some office situations where you truly have no rights. You mentioned the role of discrimination against women in fueling this sense that women can do no wrong, and I concur that being a victim means never having to say you're sorry.
At what point will women's rights have advanced enough for women to acknowledge that they are human and their shit stinks too? I know things were really hard for the baby boom generation. My book Impossible Dreams contains an oral history interview with two baby boomer women who talked about how, in their lifetime, women couldn't have their own credit cards. I can understand how some women of that generation would have lasting hard feelings about that type of egregious mistreatment. Fortunately, I, a woman born in 1986, was able to fund Impossible Dreams on credit cards — a few years after I abandoned office work over a situation with a boomer woman where nothing I did was ever enough to compensate for her lifetime of suffering.
Do you foresee this problem of woman on woman bullying in the workplace improving at all after the baby boom generation finally fully retires?
I love this. I hope you write an entire book on it.