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Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 22:48:09 JST Dawn Ahukanna

Thinking about https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112553269616845417, in modern western society any activity/behavior requiring effort, empathy, consistency & moderation is disparaged, judged, shamed & societally coded as “women’s work”, like:
- consistent showing up (boring !)
- consistent care and vulnerability (boring !)
- consistent routine maintenance (boring !)
So attention is focused on “low hanging, endless novelty” since that is effortless. See Aesop’s fable about "The fox and the grapes" - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes
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  It's kind of amazing how much people disparage work that's really intentionally about helping people. I don't even think people know they're doing it. Even when people emphasize the care aspect it's almost always at the cost of acting like you're less intelligent
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  The Fox and the Grapes
  
  The Fox and the Grapes is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 15 in the Perry Index. The narration is concise and subsequent retellings have often been equally so. The story concerns a fox that tries to eat grapes from a vine but cannot reach them. Rather than admit defeat, he states they are undesirable. The expression "sour grapes" originated from this fable. The fable The fable of The Fox and the Grapes is one of the few which feature only a single animal protagonist. There are several Greek versions as well as one in Latin by Phaedrus (IV.3) which is terse and to the point: Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although he leaped with all his strength. As he went away, the fox remarked 'Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.' People who speak disparagingly of things that they cannot attain would do well to apply this story to themselves. In her version of La Fontaine's Fables, Marianne Moore underlines his ironic comment on the situation in a final pun, "Better, I think, than an embittered...

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