tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-903369978904506414.post1941462213614514826..comments2024-02-18T23:27:55.993-06:00Comments on the Madness of the Combat Medic: Fairness, Equality and Other BuzzwordsThe Mad Medichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16227573604389667896noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-903369978904506414.post-6372818809203931462012-02-01T15:24:12.202-06:002012-02-01T15:24:12.202-06:00I largely agree regarding the equality thing, afte...I largely agree regarding the equality thing, after all the word essentially means the same and we don't go around calling men and women the same. Equal Opportunity is better but still not really there. We have a saying here "fair go" which is a lot better but even that has the dubious fair word which can mean anything if so desired. In the end though we simplify too much thinking of men and women as 2 units. They are not. We need to think of each man and woman as applied to the situation because it's their personal capabilities/flaws/features that will count not the generic man or woman and often not even the fact of gender.Argenthttp://positiveentertainment.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-903369978904506414.post-5373499262222896942012-02-01T10:26:17.414-06:002012-02-01T10:26:17.414-06:00Well Again Same Career choices. Say she doesn'...Well Again Same Career choices. Say she doesn't take a few years off work to raise kids (an expectation sometimes) then typically women get paid on par with their male counterparts of similar time and duration. The rate of progression in their career path may be different, but that may just be part of a managerial style. Women being Consensus Builders, are sometime loathe to actually act. This is a problem when talking about supervisory roles. Men, being action oriented, and thus more likely to decisive in their actions, for good or ill, tend to rise quicker because of this trait. <br /><br />Further, you can explain a lot of this by the Goals. What the goals are and how they are reached, are often (to say the least) <i>very</i> different between women and men. <br /><br />Also if you compare <i>all</i> women to <i>all</i> men then, yes, there is income "inequality" but again, like I said, that has far more to do with career choices (degree paths, or what career they actually choose) then any actual in-built sexism. <br /><br />Lastly we should not be looking for "equality" in the sexes. The Sexes are never equal. Never will be. They are by their very nature complementary. That we continue to skirt that fact, or flat out ignore it, has, I think, lead to a majority of the dysfunction we as a country are facing. Marriage is seen as a prison, Baby's Mamas, dead beat dads, and lord alone knows how many other dysfunctions could be laid square at the feet of this one slight failure of perception.The Mad Medichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16227573604389667896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-903369978904506414.post-16792276137971231862012-02-01T04:59:12.669-06:002012-02-01T04:59:12.669-06:00Well you don't mention the actual State of Uni...Well you don't mention the actual State of Union either. It's so normalised why does anyone bother with the SOTU title?<br /><br />A Bulgarian summed up the communist stupidity to me in much the same manner you do.<br /><br />The tax rate on the rich isn't the problem it's the tax evasion, including legal tax evasion.<br /><br />"You put a woman up against a man and give the same general career choices and their pay/promotion rate is about the same" No check your data women are paid less in the same job with the same abilities on average in pretty much all areas.<br /><br />You're wrong about progressives. Progressives are usually wrong in their ideas. All their bad ideas lead to disaster or failure and conservatives shine in preventing this or at least trying to. But good ones do shine through slowly eventually. Simple but rare things like increasing accountability of monarchs, the forging of a free America, women voting, emancipation, freedom of religion. So yes progressives do progress but the irony is they progress into new conservative values.Argenthttp://positiveentertainment.org/noreply@blogger.com