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Germanicus
02-03-2014, 08:21 AM
I have mentioned on this site that I worked in Pre-Schools when I was a young stoner. Like most things that I say this is true and it gives me a unique perspective on Affirmative Action because I am one of few white males to become a minority.. ((: So I can call females on their lies and nonsense. I have that authority. And I am honest enough to see and understand the special treatment and lower expectations society has for a minority group.

I decided to do the diploma course in childrens services when I was 18 and at a TAFE ( technical college ). What I was doing was a spray painting apprenticeship course. Like I said, I was kind of a stoner and I wanted to do something really easy. My Dad is a mechanic and he can spray paint so when I was a kid I had helped him spray some vehicles and stuff so it was familiar and in my opinion a pretty relaxed knda job. So I was doing that.

You might think spray painting is simple but there is a knack to it and the difference between an average and good spray painter is considerable. I was pretty good at it. One guy better in the class and he had a father that was a spray painter.

We had this chick in the class. She was kinda average but the teacher would go on and on about how great she was doing and was always trying to encourage her. It seemed kinda stupid to me. Like patronizing. How the heck would being female stop you from developing the skills to spay paint a vehicle? Or mix up paint colours? Or prepare a surface?

So I was thinking about this and also about how all of the hot girls seemed to be down the other end of the college in the childcare and hospitality buildings.. So I swapped coursed and joined a childcare course in the middle of the year. Now I would see if I would be treated like the spray painting chick. Was I ever.

There are not many males that work in childcare. Most would be embarrassed even if they thought they might like to do it. Also, the pay is terrible really ( I think its a bit better now ). But I dont care about money or people that do and I find it very hard to be embarrassed about much. So I thought it would be funny and interesting.

So, I was like some kind of celebrity in the childcare building. And I was treated just like the chick that they made a huge deal about in the spray painting course. Which was funny. See there were hundreds of chicks in that building doing various levels of Childrens Services and like five males. Me and this other guy from another class were childcare rockstars. (:

Like I said, the chick in the spray painting course was fine. She would have had no trouble and it was obvious she was capable and suited, just not as much as the teacher liked to make out. It was similar for me I guess but I was kind of awesome at it. Kids like me. And the theory was simple enough for me. ( childcare chicks are mostly girls that did not focus in highschool and couldnt get into uni so.. )

Even though I was awesome I felt that people put way too much focus on me being male instead of how fucking awesome a childcare worker I was. In a way my gender devalued my accomplishment. If I do something I mostly try my best and I didnt treat the class or any prac as a joke. On prac I would get A's and be offered a job. And the theory was simple enough and also very interesting in my opinion so I liked it. And I like kids so I liked the practical side too. It was a fun thing to do. And easy.

Doing the course made me think about that spray painting chick in a different way. She didnt ask for special treatment and probably didnt want it. And like I said, she didnt need it. I felt kinda sorry for her.

Equality should mean holding people to the same standards and gender or race should not enter that equation.

Another funny thing was this. Childcare standards require workers to update skills now and then so there would be classes of older chicks doing that from time to time. I remember going into this room to get something and it being full of middle aged women mostly. They harrassed me. Its funny when chicks are all together they act like contruction workers sometimes. I remember heaps of sexual harassment type situations with horny teachers telling me how attractive a young fella I was, and stuff but this time I go into this room was the most extreme. I liked it because it was kinda funny but I also could see how a woman might feel when a group of guys wolf whistle at her when she is alone. I liked the one woman that told them to stop. Like I didnt grab for my rape whistle or anything like that but, anyway being in the building for the two year course made it possible for me to relate to females being objectified in a way that most males couldnt understand. ( unles you are a stripper or something but you gotta expect it with that right? )

When I started working I made a point of not even taking my resume to any interview. Every job I applied for in childcare I got. Childcare centres like to have a male on the roster because it makes them seem all modern and progressive and stuff. Plus, the middle aged women that were interviewing me always seemed kinda excited to have a young , not terrible looking(:male around. So I would always try to give as little at an interview as possible and see what they would do. There must have been chicks that missed out on work due to me that gave better interviews but I kinda knew I would get most jobs that I applied for. I was like some kind of slut. (:

And I worked in Pre-Schools for like 5-6 years. What I found was even though I was always the most hard working worker and the person with the best understanding of modern theory and practice I was always treated as being good 'for a male'. Which is offensive. I wasnt good for a males. I was just plain good. And better than my babysitter-type workmates. (: Modern childcare is more than babysitting. The formative years are all important in the development of an individual and it is a more important job that society acknowledges. I took the job very seriously and I think it is very sexist for females to pretend that they are better at caring for and facilitating the development of children.

So when women act like they need special treatment in any job. Or minority races, or gays, they are only hurting themselves in my opinion. Childcare does not have quotas for males or anything like that but there is an unwritten bias and push to encourage males in the jobs.

Official and unofficial affirmative action should be a thing of the past and people should not put so much focus on helping a minority enter a job that is not a traditional type of thing for them to do.

You reckon?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhvgv3f2bgE
It was a fun and funny job. My cooking lessons kicked ass. And my honey cakes and stuff. I miss cooking lessons the most I think.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtPM4YFVv8Q

I miss doing Where is Thumnkin.

where is thumbkin? where is thumbkin? ( whisper that bit )

HERE I AM! ( high funny voice ) HERE I AM! ( yell that bit as loud as you can )

How are you today Sir? ( use high funny voice ) VERY WELL I THANK YOU! ( yell it )

Run away. Run away. ( normal )

Kids used to love it when we got to tall man.. (: My Pre-School rooms ruled.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOEdm7TsdAE

HA! ( Thumbkin is good for developing fine motor skills. And for teaching 3/4/5 year olds to give the bird. ((: )


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tBhedcwBGY

Running a Pre-School room is an awesome job for a young stoner. ((:

edit- you know, a pre-school room is a lot like a socialist society when you think about it.. Arent we all special and equal? (:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-vjIs4SQcI

edit- Not only were my pre-school rooms socialist but also quite democratic. One of the ways I would introduce democracy was to have a vote on what colour my hair would be next week. Green? Blue? Pink? Purple? If there was no clear majority I would dye it two colours. Or three.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da0JwKT3GyM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfqc02xOP1M


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnxlfe2M6l8

You know. Being a pre-school worker is kinda like how Holden wants to catch all those kids from falling off that cliff hey. Kinda like being a catcher. In the rye. I also have worked as a petrol pumper. And I tried my best to act like a deaf-mute. ((:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJtNN4daPLY

Cigar
02-03-2014, 09:01 AM
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Captain Obvious
02-03-2014, 09:21 AM
Affirmative action is racial discrimination and does nothing but further the racial divide in our society.

Racialists are doing little to counter racism but do a hell of a lot to expand it.

Germanicus
02-03-2014, 09:49 AM
"You know that song 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'? I'd like — "
"It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Burns)."
"I know it's a poem by Robert Burns."
She was right, though. It is "If a body meet a body coming through the rye." I didn't know it then, though.
"I thought it was 'If a body catch a body,'" I said. "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye


That digression business got on my nerves. I don't know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all. … Oh, sure! I like somebody to stick to the point and all. But I don't like them to stick too much to the point. I don't know. I guess I don't like it when somebody sticks to the point all the time. The boys that got the best marks in Oral Expression were the ones that stuck to the point all the time — I admit it. But there was this one boy, Richard Kinsella. He didn't stick to the point too much, and they were always yelling "Digression!" at him. It was terrible, because in the first place, he was a very nervous guy — I mean he was a very nervous guy — and his lips were always shaking whenever it was his time to make a speech, and you could hardly hear him if you were sitting way in the back of the room. When his lips sort of quit shaking a little bit, though, I liked his speeches better than anybody else's.… It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle. I mean it's dirty to keep yelling "Digression!" at him when he's all nice and excited. I don't know. It's hard to explain.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye


I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I didn't care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye

Digression!!! (:

edit- What did you want to be when you grew up? I always wanted to be my Grandmother. Every other person I knew had to go to 'work'. My Grandmother used to just sit around and do what ever she liked all day. Or go shopping or something. That seemed more fun than 'work' to me. I used to like watching The Bold and the Beautiful with her. And General Hospital. And all those shows. ((: Why do you guys want to go to work again? (: I dont get it.

I want to be a fireman! I want to be a policeman! I want to be a doctor!..... yeah fuck that. I wanted to be my Grandmother. (: I never knew what to say. (:

Germanicus
02-03-2014, 09:50 AM
Hey, you fuckers ruined my art. Goddammit! (:

Germanicus
02-03-2014, 09:54 AM
Affirmative action is racial discrimination and does nothing but further the racial divide in our society.

Racialists are doing little to counter racism but do a hell of a lot to expand it.

I agree. Reverse racism.
The colour-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, sexuality-blind approach is the only way. And no tokenism!