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From: taumeson |
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April 11th, 2008 07:09 pm (UTC)
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Re: i must assume you thought people wouldn't agree
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actually i assumed nobody would respond ;)
out of all my female friends, and this is true, not an exaggeration, you have the strongest work ethic and have always had some of the hardest jobs. healthcare is like that, definitely. nurses and healthcare support have far shittier jobs than administrators and doctors.
you, my dear, are RESILIENT. you take a licking and keep on ticking. and women do seem to endure better than men.
so no...no overall truth to be found here. BUT. when i think about sucky, painful jobs or jobs that require suffering, i think of male dominated fields. oil rigs, firefighters, sanitation, etc. this is part and parcel with the idea that society has accepted that men should do the suffering and we tacitly perpetuate it. prison rape is a norm, but i think if it happened more at women's prisons we would hear more about it. men often lose their kids during contested divorces.
i'm not saying that women don't do their own share of suffering. but if you think back 100 years, the woman is breaking her back tending the house while the man is getting shot at on the western front. being a single parent informs strongly informs you of the difference between housework and outside work. they are two different types of suck, where work outside the home can be 100x worse than work inside the home.
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