work ethic

There are real victims in the world.  Few of them are bossy women that are worried about “entitlement,” or a “glass ceiling.”   We came a cross an absolutely hideous post on how Women hit a Glass Ceiling. After I bought a new keyboard (I had been compelled vomited all over the old one), I got to thinking: what would motivate someone to write this kind of post.  And it can only be two things:  Outright greed, and failure to view reality.

See, egotism demands that we are honored.   Part of our brain revises history to make us look a little better, to make things work a little better for us.  And to make things “not our fault.”   Some diabolical external force, some cultural bias on a standardized test is to blame.  Not us.  Not the fact that we didn’t work hard enough, care enough, or put in the time.  We were robbed.  We were cheated.  We don’t have to take stock in our own failure, we can look externally and that’s where the blame lies.  And we–as women–are victims.

That erodes our work ethic.  Why work if it’s futile?

Then that erodes where we spend energy.  Let’s fix the system and presume it’s broken and make producers defend their production.  Let’s use our energy DESTROYING things, because I can’t own up to the fact that I’m not smart or valuable.  I’ll embitter myself because I’m a victim.  I didn’t fail, I was robbed.  See?  You don’t have to answer the hard question: how good am I really.

The Victimizers Become Needed

The other, more insidious part (one role that Al Sharpton played) is the elevation of the whistle blower to leader status.  See,  it goes like this.  I remind you you’re a victim.  I speak out, and tell you that you need me.  Oh, pay me some mind, union dues.  Since I’m speaking out, I’ll be the one to decide things for you.  Oh, can you give me a speaking fee so I can protect your rights?  After all, I’m only doing it for you.  You need me.  You need biiiiig daddy to speak up for you.  Because you’re a victim, why would we expect you to show anything close to competance.

If you have a vested interest in convincing someone else they are victims, then you are a bad person.  If you benefit from someone else’s oppression, even if you’re not oppressing them, then you are a bad person.  And anyone that’s going to force a glass ceiling–a nebulous and unactionable BS conspiracy that has the inept putting a claim on the competent?  Then you’re a bad person.  F#@% you.

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