Author Topic: Is multi-tasking a female thing? (Read 1996 times)

LaramieHirsch · « **on:** August 14, 2012, 11:48:26 PM »

It occurred to me this week how female the idea of multitasking is.

Where did multitasking come from? I mean...I know it's always been around. But it has been emphasized in our culture as a necessary thing to be able to do, particularly in work places. Is there some sort of correlation between the emphasis on multitasking these days and the feminist movement?

Anthony Benedict · « **Reply #1 on:** August 15, 2012, 12:25:28 AM »

Laramie, I like your posts so please forgive me for the following response:

Gosh, I dunno!

Maybe we could have asked Gen. Omar Bradley on D-Day as he was watchiing his men storm Omaha Beach while getting reports from three different services simultaneously ( that would be air, sea and land, btw ), signing off on orders, demanding new information from subordinates, reporting to Ike and London and, when there was more than one-tenth of a second available, trying to decide whether to push on or get his men off the beaches before every last one of them was slaughtered.....

I bet he might question the premise of "multitasking" as a feminist thing.

( Just a little humorous sarcasm for what was a huge target. Sorry, I can't help myself when one pops up like that! ) :ready-to-eat:

Btw, I'm sure any day now I'll return the favor and you can have at it with gusto, too!

LaramieHirsch · « **Reply #2 on:** August 15, 2012, 12:36:10 AM »

Quote from: Anthony Benedict

Laramie, I like your posts so please forgive me for the following response...

Meh. It was just a speculation. I ask so I can get feedback, after all!

Nylndech · « **Reply #3 on:** August 15, 2012, 01:50:59 AM »

one mom raising six kids while dad is at work

hmm

Daegus · « **Reply #4 on:** August 15, 2012, 05:31:50 AM »

No one really "multitasks" as you would understand it. Actual multitasking is an incredibly inefficient way of doing things, because when a person is focused on more than one thing at a time, they are certain not to do the task in an efficient way.

As a matter of fact, most people CANNOT have more than 1 thought occupying their minds at a time, so most people are not really multitasking. Even if you're in the army and have multiple things to do, seemingly at once, you can't really call that multitasking since you give each specific activity its own time to be done. Even if you're a mother raising 6 children while the father is at work, I can tell you right now without knowing anything about you that you are not constantly focusing on each child individual at the same time. Rather, you think of them collectively as an individual group or you only think of 1 individual child (so either way, they're still being looked at as individuals in some way).

Multitasking doesn't really even exist.