So, trying to be as diplomatic as possible, and not get myself into trouble, I ask Em a question. It occurred to me that sometimes I considered that women are often irrational, and sometimes slaves to their current emotions in a way that men tend not to be. Now that is a generalisation, yes, but hold fire and maybe read the rest of this before jumping in to answer…

As an aside, I ask WordPress AI to generate images for my posts, this time it returned an error and informed me that my post had been flagged. Way to go AI, this is why I don’t run my intellect through that lifeless mind grater while writing, and it helps with none of my words, because it is simply… a wanker. Imagine being flagged by a computer system for putting your speculative mind onto a page for others to discuss and correct. Is it programmed to be this way, is this what Orwell speculated?

I’ve been either lucky or unlucky, depending on your perspective, to have had more than a few quite long relationships. You know the kind where you get past the romance and into the nitty gritty of electric bills and problems. Once you get to know a woman you realise that they are complex, and it’s all of them I think. They’re not the simple creatures we guys are, mostly (generalisation, keep bearing).

If it is my experience that a woman changes throughout their natural monthly cycle. Often going from a clear headed rational decision maker, to a raving clumsy lunatic, on to being an emotionally self destructive angry wreck, and this train stops at every possible station in between during that journey. And they change much as they age, more than men seem to anyway … and add that this observation is not unique to my experience, that it is also the observation of every guy I know that lives with one of these wonderfully exciting creatures, then my question is this…

What implications does it have for the conversations we might have concerning equality, to have an inconsistent version of a person possibly inserted into the most critically important aspects of each of our lives? At this point I’m taking no position, I may not even have a conclusion at the end of this, I’m just asking you…

If I get on a plane, or have a surgery, or have political or work-based decisions made on my behalf, then is there any mileage in the idea that I may be less well served depending on what mood the woman that is in charge or the plane, the knife, the business, or the social structure, may be in? Is that an insensitive question in the modern world, if we contend that this matters then should it be asked regardless of who it upsets? That could be 50% of the world, I recognise that, and not wanting to speculate on something I know is controversial I asked Em, who is of course, a woman. She is a thinker, independent of mind, she often disagrees with me, and doesn’t much care for the comfort of the majority or fashionable social forces when chewing a problem. I did this before I started to write this piece, mainly because I needed to see if I was on to something, or just being a guy.

Luckily for me, Em agreed, somewhat…

I’ve worked in structures and sectors dominated by women for most of my adult life, I’ve had a lot of female bosses, and I’ve only ever had a woman partner. My Commanding NCO was a women and my SSM was a woman in the forces, my boss at the college I worked for was a woman, the principal was too, my boss in the first factory job I had was a woman, my boss now is a woman. So I don’t think I am inexperienced when it comes to having my day directed by a woman more often than not. For the most part it has not been a problem, if they were an asshole it was not because they were women, they just happened to be one, and that’s not my prejudice. What they all did have in common was a sort of indescribable irrationality when it came to organising things, a lack of logic and an abundance of feeling was employed often where I often supposed a man would have done otherwise. It may be true that women intuit potential situations in their minds in a different way than men do, and there may be greater value in that method, I certainly don’t know. Susan Greenfield wrote a very interesting book about brains, in it she speculates that the brain of a woman is very different to that of a man, and operates with differing parameters.

I’m just asking a simple question here, something to think about, would a world run by women be different to the one built by men? I think we will soon find out…

Paul S Wilson