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'If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.'
-Robert X. Cringely (from geek wisdom)
Michelle Cottle has added another excellent contribution to The New Republic. She discussed how some people tends to "medicalize" the obvious. In this article, she focused on the Hurried Woman Syndrome (HWS). I must say that, with the limited exposure I have with gender issues (I am a work in progress), I agree with Ms. Cottle:
"Must we medicalize everything in order for it to be real? I'll tell you what's wrong with women: We have stupidly agreed to do it all. We bought into that 'you can do anything a man can do' line, without pushing the reciprocal expectation that men will do much of what we were originally doing. This is why many dads still expect a ticker-tape parade when they change a diaper or wash a dish. It's also why, when women come home from ten hours at the office, their brains immediately shift into life maintenance mode, spinning through a mental checklist of thousands of chores yet to be done. It's not that men won't help when asked--repeatedly; it's that most never look around for what needs to be done without being asked--repeatedly" (11 December 2002 The New Republic).
