She noted that Japanese women spend over five times as long as men on household chores
damn. i've been living alone for years in my own little equitable utopia where i do all the wiping of my own ass, fixing of broken things, shopping, cooking and bills, so when i read these hardcore disparities, my mind is just blown realizing that some people are out here trying to don draper this shit.
My cousin married a Japanese woman. They live in the US, but she was working for the US arm of a Japanese company. When lockdown happened she said she was so relieved because it meant she didn't have to pour tea in meetings anymore. Pouring tea was not her job. She later got fired after she blew the whistle on some shady shit they were doing.
It drives me nuts how people just completely discount, ignore, or dismiss all the gains that one-half of the population (women) experienced in the Eastern Bloc. Kristin Ghodsee's book Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism highlights this. I really don't even think her book is about sex per se. The point is, when women feel empowered, secure, and equals to men... they feel better about themselves. And no different from men, happy confident people make for better romantic partners. For a moment socialism was able to provide this, until it was snuffed out. You can read all about how women in these places, as socialism was dismantled, saw their lives get worse in relation to their status to men.
I just think this is all a helpful antidote to the bs I see on social media from evangelicals (as an ex-evangelical I have an unhealthy obsession with evangelical social media) who think "feminism" is ruining relationships and society. The opposite is true.
not exactly the point or the main problem, but...
damn. i've been living alone for years in my own little equitable utopia where i do all the wiping of my own ass, fixing of broken things, shopping, cooking and bills, so when i read these hardcore disparities, my mind is just blown realizing that some people are out here trying to don draper this shit.
My cousin married a Japanese woman. They live in the US, but she was working for the US arm of a Japanese company. When lockdown happened she said she was so relieved because it meant she didn't have to pour tea in meetings anymore. Pouring tea was not her job. She later got fired after she blew the whistle on some shady shit they were doing.
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Having a baby means you have fewer household chores to do, right?
Right?
semi productive child labor is only 5-9 years away once you have your first child.
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It drives me nuts how people just completely discount, ignore, or dismiss all the gains that one-half of the population (women) experienced in the Eastern Bloc. Kristin Ghodsee's book Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism highlights this. I really don't even think her book is about sex per se. The point is, when women feel empowered, secure, and equals to men... they feel better about themselves. And no different from men, happy confident people make for better romantic partners. For a moment socialism was able to provide this, until it was snuffed out. You can read all about how women in these places, as socialism was dismantled, saw their lives get worse in relation to their status to men.
I just think this is all a helpful antidote to the bs I see on social media from evangelicals (as an ex-evangelical I have an unhealthy obsession with evangelical social media) who think "feminism" is ruining relationships and society. The opposite is true.