posted October 05, 2011 10:32 PM
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Just look at what happened to the 60/s feminists.They Alomg with their philosophy have just about gone extinct! All they contributed was a workforce at half the price to the alpha males and females at the top of societal pecking order. Now most women have twice the work they used to have before their new found "liberation"
Women were working outside the home long before "1960s feminism." A lot of people hold this fantasy view of history where the man worked a 9 to 5 job while his wife kept house. However, in reality, only a small segment of the population could afford this lifestyle for a short period of time: mostly white, mostly upper middle class.
Nonwhite and working class women made up the labor force of textile mills, clerical jobs, laundries and other industries as far back as the 1800s. The first working women's labor union organized in 1844. In the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, 129 out of 146 people killed were female laborers. During World War 1 and especially World War 2, women worked in factories to support the war effort (this is where the famous "Rosie the Riveter" picture comes from).
Let's also not forget that black women worked as slaves for centuries in the United States. Even after slavery ended, black women often went to work as maids and servants in the homes of wealthy white families, as did many ethnic immigrant women.
Women did not magically start working outside the home as soon as "Feminism" happened. Feminism happened partially because women demanded recognition and fair treatment for the work they were already doing.
Sorry to go on a rant, but it's a pet peeve when people peddle a falsely idealized view of the past while forgetting the historical mistreatment of women, the working class, immigrants, people who were not white, LGBTQ people, etc.
Lindaland
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posted October 05, 2011 10:32 PM
