Now, the modern, feminized Western man’s normal reaction is to look at the situation, shake his head, and lament that nothing works anymore. Which, of course, is true, but hardly a solution.
What a true son of the Patriarchy does is play by the new women’s rules that have been established.
For more than three-and-a-half years, Chowdhury juggled multiple jobs across the civil service – as many as five at a time. He was employed by the Departments for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Health, Business and Trade, the Food Standards Agency, as well as the Home Office.
At one point he was contracted to work 183 hours a week, the equivalent of more than 26 hours a day, seven days a week. This fraud was astonishingly lucrative: at his most dishonest, he was drawing salaries amounting to almost £350,000.
So while it’s true that the women’s workplace is a dramatic morass of avoidance, unaccountability, and a complete lack of accomplishment, that doesn’t mean that real go-getters can’t find real opportunities there. If you’re a man in a feminized workplace that operates according to women’s rules, you can’t help but succeed once you stop playing the wrong game. You simply have to accept that the objective isn’t to do anything, it is to make your coworkers feel good.
It’s that simple. Just do that and failure isn’t even possible!
In any event, we obviously have our answer to Martin van Creveld’s long unanswered question concerning his observation that the more women who work in a field, the less social status it has.