![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Imagine, if you will, a three-foot-high (at the head, not the shoulders) Black Langshan rooster. Very tall, very dignified, very gentle.
Now, imagine this particular rooster being stuffed into a white, frilly, lacy dress.
There are some chickens, including roosters, who could pull this look off perfectly. There are many chickens, including roosters, who would immediately pull this off, and possibly shred, besmirch, or stomp it in the process of wiggling and flapping out of it.
This rooster would stand there looking mortified, too gentle and well-trained to make the sort of squawking, flapping fuss he clearly would have wanted to, entirely awkward and uncomfortable.
It is a powerful mental image.
It is only a mental image, because 小雞 was too dignified, and we never did have any doll clothing quite that white, lacy, and in his size.
Now, consider how wrong an internal-only development project would have to go in order for it to evoke this mental image.
Now, imagine this particular rooster being stuffed into a white, frilly, lacy dress.
There are some chickens, including roosters, who could pull this look off perfectly. There are many chickens, including roosters, who would immediately pull this off, and possibly shred, besmirch, or stomp it in the process of wiggling and flapping out of it.
This rooster would stand there looking mortified, too gentle and well-trained to make the sort of squawking, flapping fuss he clearly would have wanted to, entirely awkward and uncomfortable.
It is a powerful mental image.
It is only a mental image, because 小雞 was too dignified, and we never did have any doll clothing quite that white, lacy, and in his size.
Now, consider how wrong an internal-only development project would have to go in order for it to evoke this mental image.
