Gender and Genetics

WE live in a fractured world no doubt.

Progress of an organization or community or a country for that matter is measured not just in GDP and crime rates and carbon footprints and so on but performance indicators of KPI for social mobility.

While the concept is endearing the execution sucks. It is the desire of the wise women and men that we humans, all of us, be treated equal.

By that it is an extrapolation of what the famous American President said in the late 1800s ..a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Again part romantic language and part interpretation the reality or the devil is in the details. What exactly do we mean by that phrase? What are the real world problems and more importantly solutions?

Ensuring each of us has equal rights to do the pursuing of life and liberty is a good catch phrase but no one wants to admit that a whole bunch of us are just born lazy. We are dumbass couch surfers.

To that breed why would someone encourage a change of pace? They are content in their dumbness. And by that there are actually some who are genetically coded as dumb. Not differently abled but cuckoo. Pure and simple.

I say let them be. Then there is the question of gender. As in your biological makeup. Pure chance. 50 50. Much has been made about why the female portion of the gender pool has not had as much success and by that we mean visibility and representation in halls of power.

Well for starters for many years there was no concept of a hall of power. This is a recent mumbo jumbo. Fabrication laid on us by those that are good at marketing poop.

To say that being CEO of a Fortune 100 company is somehow more visible and noteworthy a role than a woman in Rajasthan carrying water on her head for 20 miles each day to nourish her brood of five is what the marketing machines have sold us.

That drives an unfortunate vicious cycle of women feeling deprived and wanting to get into matters that they would rather not. I mean as long as reproduction remains a one sided thing what the heck are we arguing? Not to sound misogynistic or anything but is it not the greatest achievement that only women folk can reproduce our next generations? Think about it. If not for them we would cease. To exist.

So if they got that corner office 100% of the time what is the discrepancy? It comes down to marketing. We need more women advancing in all fields et al. Well if they so want to they will stop reproducing and get on with it. Let them decide.

Same goes for the massive BS that is pervasive in pop culture - equal rights for all races. First of all the race is another marketing invention. What the hell is a race?

Slippery slope is what it is. Now we got black people who are queer or female being sought out for positions of power because of their physical characteristics with little to no attention being paid to their capability to do the job to which assigned.

I say this from personal observation where some glistening examples of doorknob equivalents were put in seriously visible and high paying positions in corporations because they had to meet their diversity quota. Their skillset was their skin color and genital arrangement.

I am wondering what the market for sex change and hyper tanning is going to look like in the near future.

New England is gleaming in the fall

This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f

Searching for a lavish 'fill in the blank with other adjectives and gender' in bed

Many of the readers of this blog have experienced this. Strange sounding messages popping up in your text or WA or emails all day long from some exotic sounding locale with an out of this world individual looking for love, sex, money or other paraphernalia to get a high. I mean granted that electronic spamming is a low cost enterprise and all but the sheer volumes and the variety in these exhortations is beyond imagination. Having a desire to engage you in some sort of sexual payola or invest in some arcane crypto scheme must be a profound algorithm that someone from Oklahoma to Odessa is cranking on through the night and watching one in a few million fall for. Otherwise this nonsense would not exist I suspect. It would be funny to watch the lifecycle of some such persona that creates said content and that of a prospect for this invite becoming an unwilling or willing participant. Then that whole thing could go on some social channel and earn likes and subscriptions for someone else a

Lakeside frivolities

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