Spinning Plates



In these “Accelerated” times, we are all running reactively behind the ball.  We Western working women with children are in a steep bid for efficiency in which every second is a calculation just to make it through the day (and night and tomorrow and after that…)

Men are increasingly implicated and engaged in the many facets of 21st century life.  
Yet in all Western societies women still bear the lion’s share of house and child work.  They still carry the brunt of required beauty and perfect figures.  They still drag the chains of care and empathy.  They still haul the expectation of being ever pleasant and pleasing.  They still lug a “double the proof” factor vs. men in the business world.  

They are still yoked with the charge of Perfection.

As we’re spinning plates, aren’t we spinning ourselves into the ground, in an unsustainable sprint-athon?  Let’s discuss what we can do about it… and what we should expect from others and society.
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What Are the Unintended Consequences of How We Are Living?

What progress! The woman’s movement has changed society profoundly.

When a girl is born, she has the possibility of becoming President of her country. She can lead her life as she pleases, she can “have it all” or “have it small”, it’s just a question of choice. The Pursuit of Happiness is at last her own to pursue and achieve. If she doesn’t, she only has herself to blame.

Right?

This expectation of, or even entitlement to, liberty and self-fulfillment has hit a new wall: up against 21st century Western postmodernism and crisis, there are new challenges within the home, the workplace, and the social circle that are altering Gen Y women’s access to their objectives and expectations. While some poster girls are making it to the top and having it all, the vast majority of women are coming up disappointed and/or resigned despite what should be a fortuitous context.

Could it be that the ways we are pursuing our goals of self-fulfillment (autonomy, liberty of choice, and control over one’s life) are precisely what will prevent us from achieving that fulfillment? Could this be our new feminine mystique?

This blog’s intention is to converse with you, women and men of the 21st century, in order for us, communally, to gain awareness of our acts, their consequences, and to sketch a new form of society we wish to build together. Laws will not make the change but we will. It is no small task but if ever there were a more pertinent time or context, it is now.