Quote of the week: I don't know

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."

                                                          -Mark Twain

There are a lots of things I don't know in the world. For example, I don't know the chemical composition of natural gas, and I don't know dates of important historical event (but I do know the start of the second world war! It's 1939! I know, I'm a genius.)

Other things I don't know have a more phylosophical nature, I think. Here is a list of questions I don't know how to answer (my hypothesis may be included):

1.Why is it considered empowering and intellingent for a girl to do traditionally "boys' stuff" while it's humiliating for a boy to do more traditionally "girls'stuff?

Wait, maybe I do know this one. Because of course the boy is the superior model, so a girl who reaches a boys' level is considered a good thing, while obviously no male would want to recede to  the inferior being that is a woman. Anyway, it's ridiculous. Gender roles are ridiculous as a whole, so of course anything that comes from them can't do much good. It's unfair to expect a person to conform to a set of things they must do, like, think, watch...based on whether they have a penis or a vulva.

2.Why do people think today more or less in the same way they did 100 years ago-with the only difference that now they generally exclude themselves from the category that is considered "bad", thus creating popular phrases like "I'm not a racist, but (insert racist statement)"?

Ummm, maybe the human brain really doesn't develop much across times. I suppose now we have the added skill of being able to sit for hours doing nothing and experience reduced butt-pain. Also, we understand more about technology and stuff, but these things don't really need to change your way of thinking. Once you get over the shock of discovering your monkey heritage, that is.

3.I can't quiet get this, does the Maya calendar count the years same as us? I mean, from the birth of Christ? Shouldn't their 2012 be different from ours?

I don't know *scratch head* . I should do my research. Then I'll inform you.

4.Why do teachers experience immense glee in assigning as much homework to poor students as humanly possible?

Ah, they teach this method at a special secret evelness course for teachers. They learn a lot of interesting stuff at this class, like how to have an evil smile and slow time.

   5.How do we manage to live in a world pratically based on the little crazy doings of casuality?

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Isn't it strange.