Thread by @owenbroadcast

on the positive manifestation of female power- its 9:15 am and im driving through the rain to the next town over. im looking for a parking lot behind a purple playground. a woman is meeting me there. i see her. i park next to her. she hands me a cooler of frozen breast milk. [..]

ive never met this woman before. we have the same last name. just a coincidence- i thought this was noteworthy but she finds it uninteresting. i thank her, she tells me she understands, its not a big deal, + drives away. this is the second time i have received a package like this

these are not incidental rendezvous as, no shade to anyone who has done this, im trying to avoid giving my less than a week old baby feed from a transnational mega-corporation. and now i can do this, because of these women, who don’t know me, who have no incentive to help me.

apparently this is “a thing” and something deep in the female mind goes village valkyrie mode and, perhaps via some type of animal magnetism, forms spontaneous altruistic networks to assist babies, and men such as myself, standing in the rain, in a cow hat (another coincidence).

i, male, am, obviously, more used to male power. i guess this manifests as what we typically think of as power. i can move heavy stuff, i can make elaborate strategy game-esque plans easily, and deep down theres a part of my brain that knows i could hit something with a big stick

so its quite interesting to have found myself, twice thus far, in a situation where, as a guy, theres literally nothing i can do about something i actually really need. theres no breast milk store. i, sadly, cant bring a large earthen vessel down to the milk river.

even if i were to, just hypothetically, go full caveman 5,000 BC mode, that wouldn’t even do anything. there’s just nothing to be done. totally powerless to solve something with no options. that’s an interesting place to be in, that today, is relatively rare, i think.

i couldn’t help but tie this into current discussions and conversations about gender dynamics and the male / female divide. for the most part, there are some things men can do that women can’t. that’s true. but, usually, it’s not that women literally 100% cant do them period.

its usually just that men are vastly more suited to it, or slightly more suited to it. its mostly semantic, there are some things only men can do, but maybe you see what im saying. its easier for guys to move heavy stuff but ultimately a bunch of women could as least try.

on the flip side, of course there are some things women are more suited towards, but its interesting to, as a guy, hit a wall where its literally 1000% impossible for me to even attempt something absolutely crucial for my life. its a thousand foot high wall. no way around it.

and then there are just these random women around, who dont know me, who have literally no reason at all to help me, who just roll up like “ha, yeah, ill help you get over this wall. no worries, bye”. they don’t even take any money for it, they just leave. thanks, bye.

its an interesting footnote if youre somewhat obsessed with the zeitgeist, like myself, which has lately concerned itself immensely with discussions of power, sex, the general dynamic between men and women. i have encountered some positive primal manifestation of female-ness.

perhaps this is the female equivalent of deadlifting 300 lbs or the hyper-male energy we commonly see online in our space. only they could do it. one diamond node in an invisible baby network, rolling up in a silver SUV, in a rainy parking lot, theres a man, in a flannel shirt...