#men's work

Historically there has always been a distinction between men's work and women's work . Most of this was for reasons of practicality.

Men are significantly stronger than women, so work that involved a lot of raw physical power had to be done by men.

Another property of typical men's work were exhausting phases with peak physical and intellectual input, paired with breaks for rest and recuperation in between.

Women's work on the other hand was less physically and intellectually demanding to the point of being outright dull, and - due to being less demanding - required little to no breaks. Women have an amazing ability to stay alert for long times even while doing the most mind-numbing jobs, so even today they are often employed in assembly lines as long as their job doesn't involve hard physical work.

In traditional settings women often worked permanently - even during general downtimes they engaged in needlework, while chatting with each other. "A woman's work never ends" and "idle hands are the devil's playthings" are proverbs about this fact.

When confronted with dull and repetitive jobs, men tend to seek shortcuts (sometimes paired with ingenuity leading to productivity growth and progress, sometimes only to the detriment of the output), while women simply continue working until the job is done.

When we assume that there are innate reasons for these preferences, which we do, as we believe in biological determinism, we must bear these in mind when assigning work to our girls and ourselves:

All heavy work has to be done by men - even if a woman can cope with it, she destroys her body and probably her soul as well through overexhaustion. This also applies to carrying loads. At the end of men's work should ideally be some kind of "achievement" as men become happy and content when they have done something.

Low intensity, long timeframe work like cleaning gets done by women. In their case the way is its own reward, as women become happy and content by what they do instead of what they accomplish.

Cooking can be done by either sex - generally the basic parts are more feminine, while the advanced, creative parts are a bit more masculine.

Women should find hobbies that also include "low intensity, long timeframe" work as explained above to maximize their happiness. Crafts, especially knitting are and have always been wonderful, feminine pastimes.

Published: Sep 17, 2013

[All information taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics except where noted.]

First up, the entire power grid would go down. 100% of power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers are men. Now, it’s possible that there are a few women working in these occupations, but however many there are, they do not make up even 1% of the total workforce, so statistically, 100% of the workforce is male.

91% of the nation’s electrical engineers are men, and if they don’t show up for work, there is no one to monitor and manage the nation’s electrical supplies. Assuming some automation (designed by men, naturally) kicks in for the day, we had all better pray there are no problems. 97.6% of electrical power line installers and maintenance workers are men.

Lights out, ladies.

Don’t bother turning on your taps, either. Or flushing your toilets.  95.5% of water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators are men.

Think you might be able to get out of town for the one day the men don’t show up?

Think again.

Planes are out.

95.9% of aircraft pilots and flight engineers are men. If you happen to find a plane with a female pilot, don’t get too excited. 98.4% of aircraft mechanics and service technicians are men. You can, however, be assured of your comfort as you sit on a pilotless aircraft that has no mechanic for pre-flight clearance, because 77.6% of flight attendants are female.

Should you be lucky enough to find a female pilot and a female technician to clear you for take-off, you still have some praying to do. Statistically, 0% of air traffic controllers and airfield operations specialists are women.

Of course, that doesn’t mean there are ZERO ladies working in air traffic control. There just aren’t enough to constitute even 1% of the workforce.

Trains, of course, are also out.

100% of locomotive engineers and operators are men, as are 100% of the workers who operate railroad brake, signals and switches.  94.4% of railway yardmasters are men, but if you chance upon a female yardmaster, it won’t help you much. She can’t operate the trains.

You might have better luck with bus drivers, almost half of whom are women.

But the streets are likely to be chaos. And there won’t be anyone on hand to help you navigate that.

87.4% of police and sheriff’s patrol officers are men. 96.6% of firefighters are men. 68.8% of Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics are men, so if it all goes tits up and you get hurt, there’s a small chance you might make it to a hospital.

I hope you don’t get too badly hurt, though. 65.7% of all surgeons are men.

Maybe you should just work from home? In the dark, mind you. With no running water.

Uh-oh. Looks like that might be a problem, too.

For all computer and mathematical occupations combined, 74.4% of the workforce is male. Computer network architects, who design and implement all our computer based communications systems are 91.9% men. And 94.2% of radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repair technicians are men.

Looks like that plan is fucked.

Hope it doesn’t get too hot, or too cold the day men don’t show up for work. Even if you had power, which you don’t, you would be hard-pressed to get anyone in to take a look at your wonky air-conditioner or furnace.

98.4% of heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration mechanics and installers are men.

Oh well. Guess you’ll have to mosey on down to the local café, which has no power either, but what’s logic and consequence anyways? Be careful when you step over all that accumulating garbage! Remember that most EMTs are men, and they’ve taken the day off. Don’t want to get hurt now.

Most garbage collectors are men, too. 93.4%, to be exact.

You’ll need to stop at the bank first, for a little cash injection.

Oops. Don’t bother.

The machine hasn’t been filled with money today. 81.5% of security guards and gaming surveillance officers are men. It’s unlikely the banks would be functioning anyways, with no men at work. 72.1% of all securities, commodities and financial services sales agents are men. 72.6% of the nation’s CEOs would be taking the day off, along with 70.9% of all the general and operations managers.

Don’t count on getting a weather report today. Statistically, 0% of the nation’s atmospheric and space scientists are women.

Actually, don’t plan on acquiring pretty much anything today. The workers in the entire production, transportation and material moving occupations are 78.2% men. Not only will no goods be moving on the day men go on strike, they won’t be made, period. 82.4% of all the industrial production managers are men.

Nothing will be built or extracted from the earth in terms of raw materials. 97.5% of that workforce is male.

Nothing will be installed, maintained or repaired. 96.8% of that workforce is male.

If men took a collective day off, we would instantly be without power, without the means to communicate, without protection, without water, without trucks bringing us the food and products we take for granted, because men are the ones who provide all those things.

Also men:

I have felt self-conscious about my body for as long as I can remember. Recently I was reading Man Enough by Justin Baldoni (affiliate link) and he shared his own experiences around his body and the self-consciousness he felt, and it struck me deeply. When I did first become self-conscious about my body? I couldn’t tell you when. I just recall being self-conscious about my body from early childhood on. I thought I had to look a certain way, in order to be accepted and attractive. This is a pressure all of us are familiar with especially in the age of social media.

However my self-consciousness with my body started in my childhood years. I would look at the other boys around me and want to look like them. I had a fear that I would be labeled fat, or unathletic, or a nerd, and those early fears informed my relationship with my body, and the way I treated it. It didn’t help that I sometimes got feedback that I was weighing too much or not looking thin enough.

I have armor I wear. It’s invisible, for the most part, and yet it is something I wear each day and I have worn it for most of my life. It’s the armor I’ve put on to protect myself from the world around me. The problem is that the armor hasn’t really worked. It’s ill-fitting at this point and in fact it may never have fit that well. This armor is my defense against the world, but its a defense that causes me to be stuck.

And I am not the only person with this armor. Most people, if not all, have some type of armor they are wearing to protect themselves. It’s not literal armor, but it is the emotional, psychic, mental, and spiritual armor…and it can also be physical armor. It is expressed in our reactions to situations, and this is where we see how ill-fitting the armor is, because under the right circumstances, with the right person, we can get triggered and those triggers will naturally call up what we have pushed down and repressed within ourselves.