Magical Sailor Fuku

Shadell wrote:The result is the innovation. A cause may prompt innovation. Besides the point, post-fordism; the idea that transportation can be less expensive then labor and thus spreading out the production process over a global scale, is an innovation. Yes, it largely owes itself to increasing transportation abilities, but, to state that only one thing in a chain is a true innovation seems flawed.

Just because suffrage was a form of innovation doesn't mean feminization of the work force can't be a further innovation. The fundamental nature of progress is that it keeps happening, building upon previous work. Ultimately everything in human society can be linked as a result of something else. Does that make the result less important? No. It simply establishes a relationship.

The problem is that innovation is victim to various interpretations, within or without certain contexts.

What I commonly see is the failure to differentiate innovation from development, otherwise innovation, development and progress ultimately share the same meaning. I don't believe that they do. To me, progress is movement forward, whether it be due to something great or small. I use innovation and development to label which form of progress is either size/scope.

Consider it the difference between a leap and a step, or a splash and a ripple. I consider women's rights to be a leap/splash, because it made significant and new changes throughout many areas. I consider the feminization of the work force a part of a natural course following that innovative change, steps/ripples that may not have taken place in quite the same way, had there not been that leap/splash.

I don't know how else to put what I think about it.

So it's just a question of semantics then.

Pretty much. But at least it's something to pass the time and amuse ourselves with. You can't run out of things to do when there is no right and wrong to get in the way.

I prefer the Left to either the Right or the wrong myself.

I prefer going nowhere. XD I like being in the center so I can observe everything around me. That way I can just point out various observations of similar things without committing myself to any of them.