Here is an interesting post by VD where he links to a long article on that topic:
More importantly, women aren’t bored any more. The rise of social media
is itself going to be the end of feminism whether women choose to admit
it or not. Whether feminists choose to admit it or not. One of the main
drivers of women entering the work force was, let’s be honest, suburban
boredom. It was one thing when women had to work in the home as much as
men had to work out of the home to stay alive. It was one thing when
women were able to form communities and entertain themselves with petty
local drama while the men were away doing survival things… With the rise
of social media, both men and women are finding new outlets for their
personal needs.
Finally I don't have to feel bad about my unhealthy relationship with my smartphone any more, I'm actually restoring traditional society, lol!
That kind of makes sense.
ReplyDeleteWomen didn't feel they needed equal rigths in the past, because a) nobody had equal rights, at least in my country only land owners and bourgeois and priests could vote and b) they truly were busy enough at home.
But in the mid 19th century, when industrialisation begun, they suddenly started having too much time. They did not need to spin and weave all fabrics at home anymore etc.
And when industrialisation begun, women actually started to work with men in factories. That was really big mistake. Before that, women working were maids, and there was still division of labour etc. But in factories, even though there must have been some division of labour, women did more or less same job as men, but got paid less, so obviously they thought it was unfair.
It would have made more sense to insist men are paid so well women do not have to work, but hey, when women have been able to see their own best?
Women in my country were largely spared factory work. Middle class girls married right after school, lower class mostly worked as domestic servants before marriage. Some poor fisher' daughters worked making/repairing nets, but mostly would quit upon marrying or at least, after the birth of their 1st child.
ReplyDeleteDuring WWII Germans took our men to work in war factories but not the women. In the 1930s Labour Party together with Catholics took laws prohibiting employment of married women, with some exceptions for domestic servants. Even in 1986 only 17% of all mothers worked outside home and like 30-35% of all women.
The divide between the generations is very sharp. Boomers taught their daughters to be feminists, and then EU pretty much demanded we changed the laws protecting housewives, like the tax cuts for the men who were breadwinners. And yes, many Gen X women had breadwinner husbands (unlike Millenial and Zoomer men, some of whom would rather stay home and breastfeed apparently) and went to work against their husbands' wishes, out of boredom.
To quote one of them, "the walls (of her home) were falling down on me". They absolutely loved workplace drama and used paid employment as a reason to do the minimum of housekeeping and child-rearing which they somehow think is beneath them. There is even a book written about these women which calls them "spoiled princesses":)
"when women have been able to see their own best?"
ReplyDeleteWell, as someone wrote on X, the main political concern of women appears to be the ability to kill their own children...
1986 isn't that long ago...
ReplyDeleteYes, it all basically changed during the life of one generation (mine). The majority of laws dismantling the protection for the traditional family, social housing etc were taken in the last 30 years, because of my country joining the EU. Both lefties and "conservatives" took an equal part in it.
ReplyDeleteI should add. As far as I know, Ireland used to prohibit the employment of married women till 1986, and artificial contraception till mid-1990s, and look at them now...
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