I should apologize for taking too long to get to the point and also how big this whole post is getting.....but please read on....
Right...........Henry Ford didn't start mass production because he had a vision of an affordable automobile but he did so to put an end to a common problem faced by men. You know, back then, after the industrial revolution kicked in, thousands of gadgets that make life easy for women have been made and women had too much time left, to do......well......nothing. All the time consuming activities were now just a few button presses and knob turns. And this made women very bored creatures. So they started to have rows with their husbands. And the most frequent moaning topic for women was that their husbands never came home early. They complained that their men wouldn't come home on time, the same time, every fuckin day. So to save themselves from the pain, men replaced horses with cars as they were more reliable. And if one family had a car, the rest of the womankind would hen-peck their husbands into buying one. So the need for cheap mass produced cars has created the rapid increase in automobiles.
It should also be noted that most early auto ads had glamorous, minimally dressed women displaying erotism to car owners. A kind of hidden message that says "Buy the car, Get the girl for fee", not very different from AXE's ad campaign. Needless to say, men fell for it and looked at cars as "bird pulling" devices.
Another reason for the raise in car population is that, suddenly there was a much bigger and more expensive list of items that became basic amenities. Like washing machines, refrigerators, cookers, boiled egg slicers, toasters, hair straighteners, blenders, tinned food etc, weren't very cheap and all appliances needed loads of electricity. And hence the average expenses of families increased exponentially. So the poor men of the time had to work more, travel further to find jobs and also manage to get home on time. As men worked harder and longer women were having too much free time. This is when something revolutionary happened. Someone at Philip Morris taught that if they somehow created a brand for cigarettes made only for women they could make loads of money. This is the culmination of the run up to disaster. They created an ad campaign to sell Virginia SLIMS that was deeply FEMINIST. Their ads villianized men, portrayed them as cruel, bossy "deprivers" of women’s rights. I looked up on Wikipedia and found their slogans: "You've come a long way, baby", "It's a woman thing", "Find your voice." and A report by the Surgeon General of the United States has interpreted these marketing strategies as attempting to link smoking "to women's freedom, emancipation, and empowerment." This is an evil thing to do. Women fell for it and taught that they were created for the same purpose as men, and they started to fight for equality; the rest is quite predictable.
Added to the continuous boredom at home and to prove a point that they were equal, women started to work, and left behind forever the very important responsibility that evolution gave them; TAKING CARE OF THE WORLD. Taking care of nature, of its beauty and balance. I am a strong believer in the theory of evolution, it’s the way nature fine tunes all its creations. You might call this God, but the point is, everything in nature is there for a purpose, with significance. Nature doesn't make mistakes. Women are made physically weaker than men because they were never supposed to hunt, run after deer, fight or carry boars or whatever over shoulders. Women are made slender, so that they can be carried around easily by men in case of danger. OK, that was an exaggeration, but you get my point don't you. The female species of humans is designed to make and take care of the offspring's and homes. Men were built to find food and defend their families; at least that was the idea.
Women by nature are meticulous and caring. They are good at things that are stereotyped as atrocities committed against them. The concept that cooking and housekeeping are derogatory and that they are not as respectful as going to work like men, is preposterous. Even if work in most cases is, sitting in a chair alone, behind a desk with a telephone, wearing waay too much makeup and smiling welcomingly(not a real word) at complete strangers or simply sit with a constant expression of surprise (raised eyebrows and eyes wide open), women do them. What jobs were women doing until the recent past? Clerks, PA's, receptionists, glamour girls selling drilling equipment? What’s this? How are these more respectful? How are these jobs liberating?
I completely understand that in some cases it’s more of a compulsion than a choice to work. I completely agree that it’s very nice of them to give a hand to the man at earning money. But I also think such men who need help are ineligible to marry in the first place.
So if you have followed what i was trying to say, you will have understood that:
The industrial revolution and the industrialization that caused climate change basically started to supply to women's needs and demands.
Also due to a few mistakes made by money hungry bastards, women have started wrongly believing that they need to get liberated and stop doing what they were made to do. How exactly does this relate to saving the world???
Imagine the changes that would come if, women are sent home. Immediately, a huge amount of vehicle pollution will come down. Not just because they wouldn't be driving, but also because there'd be more room for men in public transport. All the toxic chemical factories that produce cosmetics will shut down. And, because women begin to find loads of time, frozen & processed food industry will collapse and with it, the enormous amount of power consumption. Also the other industries that make all the time saving, working-women friendly appliances will disappear, saving loads of power. Houses will have REAL plants again, and all those disgusting plastic twigs and fruits can be sent to save the depleting rain forests; or alternatively could be fed to calorie conscious people. We will have gardens with 100% organic vegetables and greens growing in them again. Women will gain back their ingenuity eventually, may be with a little help from women like my great grandmother.
My great grandmother is a pioneer in recycling technology and has mastered the concept of living in oneness with the nature. Let me give you a few examples.
She cooks in a wood fuelled stove; wood from dried coconut branches or just the nut's husk. If you think those stoves produce too much co2, lemme tell you it’s no more polluting than the overloaded kerosene fuelled auto which brings us gas cylinders. She uses the ashes as dish washing powder and dry grass and husk as scrubber. She makes homemade hair oil and even "Bounty" bars, thanks to the coconut trees. I have seen her make DIY detergent bars using palm oil and soda; they look quite ugly but do the job perfectly. Also back in the days when plastic bags were science fiction, paper was used for packing. All that paper she'd soak in water and grind it in a pestle. This paste, she'd use like clay and make measuring cups!!! OK that was a bit too much I agree. And also because peelers weren't available back then, she'd make her own with river side clamshells. Yes, clamshells. The clamshell's curved top is rubbed to wear against a stone and due to the shape of the shell a razor sharp hole is formed. See, a peeler. She says she doesn't like plastic bags because they are not strong enough, but I think the reason is that they can’t be used or at least made in to something else when they are torn, Unlike her cloth homemade carriers.
Things she did are both outlandish and very clever. More importantly, ECO FRIENDLY. I am sure she has contributed more to the environment in her 80+ years than all of those self minded maniacs who went and made a joke out of the Copenhagen Summit, but still call themselves world leaders in environmental policy making. If one woman could make such a difference, imagine the potential. Women can change the world. They truly can.
What must be realized is that, of the 8 billion people in the world, only 1% or less are contributors. Only 1%. They are the ones who help in the progress of our species; they contribute to the society, to better living, to the world. The rest of us on the other hand, we are just insignificant elements in an enormous machine. We are part of the world, we make the society and all but, our existence isn't all that important. Really, think about it. Most of us are here "living" only to keep the grand scheme of things running and are no way contributors to the society or world. It wouldn't make a difference to the humanity as a whole if you are a man or women, employed or unemployed, sane or insane, living or dead. So why fight about equality imagining that some duties are humiliating and degrading compared to others? We are all insignificant.
What women did as housewives for thousands of years has brought us forward as a species. They have maintained a balance that has sustained the growth in civilizations' sophistication through time. We are what we are today, the most dominant species on the planet and probably the universe, only because of women and their contribution. But now, if women don't act quickly and embrace their earlier lifestyle we will become extinct, very much like the cute, fluffy, helpless polar bears.