A female touch

One of my favourite scenes of the movie It's a mad, mad, mad world is a collection of sequences when the young married-couple on their honey moon gets trapped in the baseman of an ironmonger shop while looking for a pick and a shovel. They try to escape to reach the hypothetical place where the "Big W" and the big dough are supposed to be found before anybody else. Of course, they tore the store down in the attempt. It is the lady who shows the only pitch of common sense and rationality (the man is absolutely off-mind), although the out-of-the-blue actions of the man are hilarious as much as the comments and the feminine touch sprinkled around by the woman (i.e. the hundreds of candles to light the room after the man blows the fuses).

Sometimes, I reflect that woman (in general), as complex as they tend to be in their thoughts and emotions, at occasions are capable of the most simple and straightforward course of reasoning. Their comments can be regarded as simplistic and plain, but often they are loaded with tons of common sense. As opposite, men tend to opt for very unreasonable and undoable requests at those moments -crazy, as to speak.

Specifically, I remember my visits to the Sterile rooms of a factory producing the active principle of antibiotics via fermentation. One day, while exploring the lines of the steam used for sterilization, the operator pointed out to a patch of pipes, all jumbled up and down, with endless bows and elbows and multiple cross-overs. The landscape had been sitting like that for years; apparently, when the sterile rooms were inaugurated, engineers and operators working there at the time think and re-thing of a possible lay-out and kept modifying their thought directly on the spot until satisfied enough. 

I said to myself, I remember: "a group of women would have never do something like this".

I feel that a woman's touch is missing in many important places crowded by men. The topic works against engineering professions. And sometimes it is true. But the spell seems to work for allegedly dim-witted, under-educated men as well as for geeks, nerds and "higher officers".

On another side, I can hardly understand why engineering labs or mechanical workshops are totally messy, all choked with piles of documents, food leftovers, scraps of metals and numberless useless stuff, in general. Here, women (always in general) seems to be as guilty as men easier. However, don't ask me why, the "practical" work showed in the photograph below, could only be done -seems to me- by men. Don't you agree?

                                  A "temporary solution" to avoid accidents. Engineering Building, UCL.

(PLEASE, LEAVE YOUR COMMENT).