I think there's an issue of economic and cultural shifts as well: our society is becoming more bureaucratized, more managed, more safetyist, more fragile. I call this 'feminization,' although it's not a perfect label. The traits that are rewarded in this scheme are organization, emotional dependence, conformity, consistency... not initiative and courage and restless energy. \
That's actually why I chose to call this meta-trend 'feminization'-it perfectly suits female workers, and generally penalizes male ones.
It's probably also related to your thoughts on bureaucracy.
Religious life does not fit its goals and habits all to well.
Orders that have been submitted to the bureaucracy (like the more declining "modernized" ones that face recruitment challenges) become as you would say "bureaucratized" and "feminized" but as such become less appealing for both men and women because they are thus not very different from the bland lifeless choices offered to them by other bureaucratized career paths in society.
Hello, I am new here. This reminded me of a conversation I have frequently with a former nun in my scripture study group - she loves that they took off the habit and I say it was a terrible idea.
Yep. Change the context to any other non mundane career and the point is even more obvious. No one would ever rationally claim that destroying what makes something unique is a way to make it more enticing. But for some reason they still tried it.
I think there's an issue of economic and cultural shifts as well: our society is becoming more bureaucratized, more managed, more safetyist, more fragile. I call this 'feminization,' although it's not a perfect label. The traits that are rewarded in this scheme are organization, emotional dependence, conformity, consistency... not initiative and courage and restless energy. \
That's actually why I chose to call this meta-trend 'feminization'-it perfectly suits female workers, and generally penalizes male ones.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/job-search-part-4
It's probably also related to your thoughts on bureaucracy.
Religious life does not fit its goals and habits all to well.
Orders that have been submitted to the bureaucracy (like the more declining "modernized" ones that face recruitment challenges) become as you would say "bureaucratized" and "feminized" but as such become less appealing for both men and women because they are thus not very different from the bland lifeless choices offered to them by other bureaucratized career paths in society.
Hello, I am new here. This reminded me of a conversation I have frequently with a former nun in my scripture study group - she loves that they took off the habit and I say it was a terrible idea.
Yep. Change the context to any other non mundane career and the point is even more obvious. No one would ever rationally claim that destroying what makes something unique is a way to make it more enticing. But for some reason they still tried it.
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