IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MINDSET

I have almost 20 years experience as a professional dishwasher and cleaner. So you could say that I know what I'm doing when I'm washing dishes. I used to work a a big culinary school with several chefs and hundreds of hi-grade students. There was so much work to be done that I, the lone dishwasher, would have to help the cooks carry stuff and do basic preparations. In exchange, near the end of the shifts, when most of the customers were gone and the dishes came pouring in, those cooks would come help me do a "dishes blitz" because doing everything alone was simply impossible. During some of the hairier nights, even the top chef would come help me out.

And this is where you see how someone can behave irrationally because he can't let go of a particular mindset. The guy had just spent the entire evening giving instructions and orders, teaching and correcting students in their work. He was firmly set in his "teacher/boss" mindset. But the thing is, he wasn't very good at washing massive amount of dishes. So I tried several times to show him tricks of the trade, to give him a tip or two on how to be better at it. But he could not accept anything I said; he didn't even listen to me, because he was too stuck in his manner of thinking. Whenever I tried to tell him something, he just cut me off and turned my advice back on me.

Had the guy just come in from home, I'm pretty sure he would've gotten what I said and implemented it pretty easily. But he wasn't a guy coming from home: he was THE TEACHER. So there you had this world-class food maker, working in pretty useless fashion in the dishes area, like overstuffing the machine so nothing would clean properly, or racking glasses the wrong way, or other basic beginner mistakes like that, because the was THE TEACHER and nothing else. He had a mental block; he couldn't change his attitude even when circumstances would have required it.

When I see a 3rd-wave feminist, I see the same mental mistake: the got-stuck-in-an-obsolete-mindset mistake. The modern feminists' mindset is I WANT MORE THINGS FROM SOCIETY. (They call that "wanting equality", but that's a pretty transparent lie so I won't get into that here). So the same thing happens to them than to my chef from earlier: as the situation changes, and their goals are met, their mindset itself does not change.

Let's say feminists asked for "more grade-school female teachers" 20 years ago, when the ratio of female teachers was 20%. Their mindset of WE WANT MORE THINGS was (arguably) relevant back then. But as the proportion of female teachers hit 50% and kept increasing, they did not change their tune. As of today, where I live there's 80% female teachers. But are they satisfied? Do they stop requesting, even though their goal has been reached and exceeded by far? No, of course not. I saw an article in a major newspaper just today where a feminist complains about the "poor women teachers" and "the oppressive patriarchy and blatant sexism of the school system" (they have a very limited vocabulary). The logic of the article was extremely poor and twisted, as it would have to be to pretend that something is the opposite of what it actually is.

If an outsider were to look at this, he would clearly see that the pretend goal of "equality" has long been achieved and forgotten. But these feminists are not outsiders. They are the WANTERS OF MORE THINGS. They are unable to change discourse and attitude as reality changes; they don't even stop to check if their goals have been met or not; they just plow ahead.

So it's not only important to have an open MIND: it's also important to have an open mindSET, so you can adapt and change course according to the current situation.