People talk about gender equality as though men and women were equal and identical. I am rather more interested in differences. The two sexes live on different planets with utterly different interests.
How different these interests are is illustrated by a television series called Nazi Megastructures. It is about the remarkable, often very big engineering successes of the Nazi regime: lots of steel, concrete and big machines.
I doubt if there is a woman on this planet who would voluntarily watch Nazi Megastructures. However, my wife did, accidentally, see a part of one episode. That episode concerned the ME 262, the first operational jet fighter, and the underground factory built to make it.
Some reference, to do with speed, was made to the Spitfire. My wife asked if the Spitfire had a propellor. What man would ask such a question? We roll eyes at such queries. Males just know about Spitfires. We know while still in our mother’s womb.
My daughter asked, “What is a Spitfire?”
Now it does not really matter does it that women are not interested in these megastructure and are ignorant of Spitfires, does it? Not one iota. But it beautifully shows how different men and women’s interest and worlds are.
And yes, ladies, the Spitfire did have a propellor.
No comments:
Post a Comment