Why can't we buy female superhero stuff?

I'm posting this everywhere, so apologies if you're one of the few weirdos who follow me in several places.

It's stirring stuff.

"Temporary" things

Have you ever worked for one of those companies that bring in a "temporary" solution to a problem... that sticks around for the next umpteen years?

Like a "temporary" building that's still in use twenty years down the track, or a "temporary" patch that then becomes part of the code and is still being repeated in new versions of the software a decade later?

Like a "temporary" office space that has been in use for song long that people have been hired, worked for the company for several years and then left without ever knowing a different office space, these things never become permanent, but may as well be.

They behave like a permanent thing, but offer no sense of permanence.  Always and forever, they are "temporary", and because of that, they can go on for an indefinite period of time.

You see, most of the time no one would put up with them as a permanent solution.  If you pointed to the building and said "this is what you will be using for the next twenty years", everyone would say "we don't want that building - it's not what we desire or need".  If you said to the software engineer designing the patch "this will become part of the product throughout multiple iterations", that engineer would say "I'd rather not, for a better and more elegant solution could and should be found."

And the people working in that office would all - every man Jack of them - say "we don't want to work here for long".

But the knowledge that it is going to be replaced with something "better" at some point distracts you from noticing that you never solve that problem.  You never find something better.  The "temporary" solution is still working, and there are so many other, more pressing needs to worry about right now... and so it slides into permanence without us noticing.  Even though we would never choose for that to be the permanent solution.

I realised the other day that this is my life.  I've been spending about 10 years living a temporary solution that was always "going to change", but simply hasn't.  I'm not sure what I want to do about that now.