ironrider11
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joined Oct 2020
Discrimination—whether it’s real, perceived, or just a hypothetical concept—could be seen as a sort of filter for capability, one that gets neutralized by sheer competence. For whatever reason, maybe it wasn't about some personal vendetta over awards, like how you could imagine someone obsessing over a double Nobelovk like Marie Curie... who knows what kind of hysteria or delusions some person might have cooked up in a lab where women aren't even supposed to hold much ground. Maybe they were just sending someone out to grab a sandwich for them. Or maybe it was more than that; while facing increased hurdles in a patriarchal setup, she didn't just fight for a seat at the table, she fought to be recognized as an individual who has to smash through a reinforced wall of challenges just to exist within this "everyone is equal" framework...
Which might actually be a good thing. Even if it makes people want to quit, it also sparks the kind of grit you need in a competitive system where you actually have to prove yourself. Honestly, it would be great if everyone had to prove their worth. It would weed out the incompetent people, regardless of gender, from positions they aren't qualified for. Once Marie proved herself—mostly to herself—she’d send scholars, big names and small, men and women alike, out for sandwiches and stuff. If the idea is that a person learns until they physically can't anymore, then maybe change is the only constant? All that knowledge gathered until you hit your limit, regardless of whether it fits the current "normal" narrative or mainstream generalizations, always ends up clashing with existing prejudices...
Prejudices that get dismantled by learning until you're exhausted, replacing "before I knew XYZ, I thought..." with the actual reality living in your head. For individuals, groups, or even entire nations synchronized by ignorance, sometimes you just need that "seeing is believing" moment. You have to use competence to show people the truth behind a hypothesis that's being dismissed as outdated. Nowadays, women have the right to vote for whoever represents the values they personally hold as a female-identifying individual. It’s been proven that women are perfectly capable of thinking for themselves about politics, even if they seem totally apolitical. In this era of supposed equality and human rights, they enjoy the same rights as men—even if those men talking about politics know way less than the women who claim not to care at all...
If we keep up this pace of forced leveling for the next few hundred thousand years, all these inequalities will eventually flatten out. The capable will be proven capable, and the incapable will be proven capable only of being incapable. At that point, future generations will probably wonder if the position held by the incompetent exists because a previous generation treated them as such. This whole mission to equalize every single human life, treating everyone identically regardless of anything, is a never-ending loop. The important thing is just to keep moving forward, slowly...
