Did the feminist revolution... backfire on women? I feel that something's missing.

2014-04-17T15:33:04+00:00

Apparently garbage men are high paid, high status workers, as are coal miners and lumberjacks. And nurses are apparently underpaid and hated by society. You only have to ignore, oh, all of reality for this to make sense.

Demonspawn · 2014-04-17T14:12:17+00:00

Reality is what's missing.

Basically, the cartoon is a lie.

RubixCubeDonut · 2014-04-17T14:20:27+00:00

I think this sort of sentiment comes from studies that show women do more housework than men. The thing is, women don't do more work in total--as this cartoon implies. Women do more unpaid housework; men do more paid work outside the house. And most studies show that men do more work in total (even when we're assuming that all "work" requires the same amount of labour).

The idea that men aren't keeping up their end, has no basis in reality.

DavidByron · 2014-04-17T16:40:28+00:00

Ah Ampersand again. The feminists' only apologist in twenty years.

It's the exact opposite of what historically happened.

Back in the day women did half the work. All the clothes for the family? Made by scratch by the women. And I mean from scratch. Before they made the clothes they made the cloth. Before they made the cloth they had to spin the thread. Washing? No electricity or plumbing -- male inventions, installed and maintained by men. Take those clothes to the river and beat them on a rock. Or draw water from the well and drag it back home. (Of course the well was made by men and so was the home) No vacuum cleaners, no microwave ovens. And kids? Before male doctors and medical researchers figured out how to stop kids dying so young you needed six, seven, eight kids in a family not one or two or none. Female midwives on that job for thousands of years didn't do it. Men did it. And male doctors made child birth safer too, as well as less common.

Women used to do half the work but male inventions and engineering hollowed out the need for 95% of women's job load. Ironically that's what created feminism - middle class women with nothing to do got bored.

For thousands of years women made almost no advances in textiles. Then men got to work and in an instant women simply didn't have to do any of that clothes making stuff. It was men who took the burden of labour from women. And it was a lot more than half they took. More like 95%.

Women never took any of the burden from men.

What did take some of the burden was Communism and the labor movement demanding the 8 hour work day. What tended to force women into men's work was the free market on labor (ie capitalism). As women entered the work force supply and demand drove wages down, which in turn forced more women into work.

But they didn't have to work as much as men -- we know that they are only earning 77 cents on the dollar. So they do less work than men do. But their entry into the work environment never meant less work for men.

A man can do his work and the woman's work both. Single parents do this (if they work for a living). A Canadian TV show was based on this idea. It went into a small town and took all the women on holiday and filmed how the men coped with doing all their own work and all the women's work too. They did fine. Asked if they planned to try an experiment doing the opposite and take the men on vacation they said, no, without men the women simply wouldn't be able to cope.

2014-04-17T14:25:33+00:00

It's the other way around surely.

2014-04-17T14:38:58+00:00

If that was case, and not yet another feminist lie, it would show up in the working time gap.

Title	Did the feminist revolution... backfire on women? I feel that something's missing.
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Date	April 17, 2014 2:00 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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