You don’t often see women attempting to reach this equality in other areas that involve more physical work. Oil rigs and construction sites are oftentimes bereft of women. People who work down in the sewers typically are sporting XY chromosomes. It’s not entirely hard to see why. Corporate offices are clean, air-conditioned, and people-oriented. Construction work often involves heavy lifting, and sweating, and doesn’t allow for a lot of “cute outfits.” More importantly, it involves a focus on things, not people.

Women tend to prefer professions where people are a huge factor. The medical profession, schools, and many corporate businesses tend to deal around people, even when it’s business to business. Men don’t have that compulsion and will take jobs where the most interaction with a person is yelling directions or grunting if they’re having to talk at all.

Take this little clip below, for instance.

Why aren’t we encouraging our girls to pursue jobs like this? We need true equality pic.twitter.com/KT0ZnyPyLI

— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) August 22, 2022

Could women do this job? Probably. Will they? Probably not. It’s filthy, involves pushing around a lot of heavy machinery, and there’s likely a high level of danger that many women wouldn’t be comfortable with. Men, however, will gravitate towards this kind of thing.

The displays of strength amid elements of danger is pretty much where the masculine spirit finds satisfaction. Dating back to when we were nomads on the hunt, men would track down wild beasts with little more than a sharpened stick and some basic tools. These beasts could easily rip them apart but that only made the thrill that much greater.

However, this did involve a level of trust. For all of human history, men would gather together and walk into the most dangerous situations where his greatest comfort wasn’t his sword or his gun, but the trust that when it was time to get down to business he could trust the man next to him to have his back without question. He trusted his fellow tribesman’s competency and bravery, and bonds would naturally form that made this trust and competency even deeper.

You can see this most at work with soldiers who have been in combat with one another. Even after they get out of the service, they tend to stay in contact with one another and meet up on occasion.

The same thing happens to a minor degree in many other businesses but the natural bonding of men is usually pretty guaranteed. They’ve earned a spot in each other’s trust by enduring multiple battles with one another, be it in a cutthroat corporate boardroom or a high-intensity moment on an oil rig. They form cliques and friendships with their own jokes and methods of dealing with outsiders.

If it wasn’t for this bond, nations would fall and civilization wouldn’t be what we know it as today. We certainly wouldn’t be half as advanced as men, who primarily built civilization, wouldn’t have been able to trust one another enough to help put it together.

Feminists see this bond and react negatively to it as if it’s somehow a personal affront to women. It’s not, but women should understand that the bond they see men have together is not unattainable. Competent women are often welcomed into the fold, but they can never be looked at as a man and shouldn’t expect to be. Men and women are different, and interacting with each other comes with different rules. These rules sometimes prohibit certain jokes or physical activities, thus disallowing women from achieving the same kind of bond as their male cohorts.

And that’s okay. Men and women are just not the same and thus cannot have the same kind of relationship as they do with their same-sex peers. Men shouldn’t be lambasted for forming cliques. They can’t help it. It comes naturally, and oftentimes it’s necessary.