Why don't feminists complain about the lack of women in waste disposal or...

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Charlie A

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...construction work? First off, before I get those crazies: I see everyone as equal. Women are equal, everyone is equal to me.

Now, what I don't understand is why the cries are only made for "easy" or more glamorous jobs that don't require much physical exertion. Office jobs, entertainment jobs, journalism, etc.

Why, oh why, are there not more demands for the equalization of these less glamorous jobs?
Ummm....women have the choice to do those jobs: just pick up a hammer or lift those trash cans into the dump truck!!

I'm not talking about "women's work" or "men's work."

Work is work regardless of gender. On the one hand women want equal access to these jobs and on the other hand they would gladly let men do these jobs.
 
It's the same reason they complain about women doing more of housework but not things that men are doing more of like grass mowing, plumbing work, etc.: picking and choosing what is "equality."
 
Women already do plenty of "less glamorous" jobs. Janitorial, lunch ladies, nursing assistants (emptying bed pans), cleaning public rest rooms, wiping children's bottoms in daycare for $8 an hour, factory work...

The point is to change things, not to fight to continue the status quo.
 
Feminism as a political movement depends heavily on the popularity of movement concepts among women, which can often mean that the priority is based on simple public selfishness. To put it bluntly, people are more interested in the idea that they're "owed" a job as a CEO as opposed to a job as a coal miner, so that's a more politically feasible cause to advance.

Tell people that they're being denied something good, and a cause to fight for it will get enthusiastic and widespread support. Tell them that they need to start being responsible for something in order to be equal, or that they are simply unequal on an issue that's not attractive to many, and the support will suddenly be much more muted and tacit, if it's there at all. This hypocrisy borne out of political necessity is what turns a lot of us off to both women's and men's rights movements as political structures, which regularly sacrifice cogency in favor of political feasibility.
 
We just want to know that we could do those jobs if we wanted to. We don't want to.
 
I dunno

But I applied to be a gate agent with British Airways in London and they interviewed me and openly told me they only give the job to gals.

(1983)

That pissed me off.
 
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