Adam, AEPi – Lambda Beta chapter.

Can’t they attach a cash fine of some sort on top of being fired?

Does anyone give a shit about their reputations any longer?

Or have smart phones destroyed all sense of impulse control?

And our pre-frontal cortex’s have regressed to the point that we are just animals now?

And it’s not just the rich white males doing stupid things.

For every Mr. Caldbeck out there, it seems that nowadays there are just as many 25 year old white school teachers banging their underage students. It’s becoming more and more frequent, this despite the fallout being much worse for the school teacher than for the rich guy. She loses her career, and her career opportunities going forward are not particularly grand as a registered sex offender.

Just as guys like Mr. Caldbeck can purchase as much prime prostitute ass as they want with no fallout to satisfy his horny sweet tooth, so too can a good looking young woman go into any bar and land as much 21 year old ass as her little heart desires.

Why toss your life down the drain?

Is the forbidden fruit just so irresistibly tasty? Maybe I should be asking Bill this question.

For a man running his hand up the thigh of a woman, maybe my mom’s solution should still hold: She has at hand a 6″ hat pin and uses it. Other partial solutions: She screams. She wears long skirts. She stays more than arm’s length away from men. She and her girlfriends have notes on boys/men, and they stay away from frat boys like Rafe Testosteroni. When the boy arrives to take her on a date, her father answers the door and says: “GOOD to meet you son. She’s ready. Of course, she’s our angel. Son, if you ever make her cry, I’ll kill you. Now have a nice evening and have her back on time.”

There have been some attempts at solutions: There is the famous “A woman’s place is in the home, barefoot, pregnant, and dependent.”.

I started grad school in math at Indiana University. I really wanted just the math for physics and then change to physics. Two of the math courses they had me in were beneath me — one of them used a challenging text that as a college senior I’d taken, taught it to myself, and lectured to a prof, one week the material, the next the exercises, for each of the chapters. Another course, somehow the prof didn’t like me. I was getting paid, for teaching, but I was a bargain, considering how much teaching and how little pay. So, I stayed to complete my teaching and left to make money. I made good money and then got a Ph.D. at a much better school.

But there at IU I saw some of the story as old as time: (1) One girl had a wise father. She was a fantastic student. Still, as she left for IU, one of the last things he told her was: “Whatever you do down there [Bloomington], be sure you leave with a teaching certificate.” Traditional advice. Been known to work well for a lot of women. (2) I taught math courses, and all the courses had some girls. None of the girls seemed to have any very good ideas just why they were taking the courses unless it was to meet boys or teachers such as me. Except for the course in Math for Elementary Education Majors: Those girls all knew just what the heck they were doing and why: They wanted a teaching certificate so that they could be a school teacher. No joke. They were serious and determined about that. Really focused. Bright? Not very. Curious? Nope. Focused? Yup. (3) Another old solution was for her to be a nurse. (4) My Mom worked really hard in high school, really at night school because at 14 she dropped out of school to get a job selling in the women’s department of a big department store to help support the family, to learn writing, spelling, typing, letter writing, filing, dictation, and bookkeeping. She was really good at those. Those subjects helped her and helped our family. (5) Another option is, her husband is in or runs a family business, and she helps and, also, helps have the kids help so that the kids can also learn the family business.

So, for some traditional solutions, we’re looking at woman’s place in the home, school teaching, nursing, secretarial, and helping in the family business.

Once a college girl told me “Women don’t have just to be cared for. Women and do things, too.”. Well, she was very aware of the option of “place in the home” and wanted more. Okay — some women have wanted more.

I have a guess: If a girl in high school or college is going to be well focused on some career option, then at least on average it helps a lot if her mother did well with that career option. So, the rate at which girls can move into career options other than the few traditional ones has an obstacle: For the girls who pursue new options, e.g., law, MD, Ph.D., MBA and VC, STEM field professional, entrepreneur, military, department manager in some government organization, etc., they are at risk of trying something new, breaking new ground, etc. Along those roads there will be some tears and even some deaths.

And there is another issue: For the women who try such new things, there is an increased chance that they will be weak, sick, or dead limbs on the Mother Nature-Darwin tree of life and, thus, have on average only a short term effect.

E.g., my wife was brilliant. It ran in her family. She had a sister who had a daughter who went to a large, highly intense high school. One day her parents were surprised to learn that the daughter was first in her class. So, she got Valedictorian. And in college, PBK (so did my wife). Then the daughter got advice that law would be a better career direction than medicine and got her law degree at Harvard. She started her career at Cravath-Swain. She did some pro-bono work and then decided she’d rather be in medicine and got an MD. Last I heard she was happy in medicine. Her real goal? “Help people”. Then, sure, the world of work dominated by men mostly won’t understand that goal.

E. Fromm in The Art of Loving wrote: “Men and women deserve equal respect as persons, but they are not the same.”. I tend to believe that Fromm was correct. So, just how fast women can be C-level executives in big companies, senior venture partners, founders of very successful startups, etc. I don’t know. If the girls/women want such career directions and can do well at the work, then fine with me. Just how fast that can happen, again, I don’t know.

For Rafe Testosteroni and his frat bros, they’ve been around for a long time. So have those 6″ hat pins.

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/vc-frat-boy-behavior/

Read and decide.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

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