There's a lot to analyze here. Dishwashers being new to Korea, Korean meals requiring a lot of bowls, that this was intentional to make women clean more, because if they're cleaning more they can't catch the feminism. Posted by a fellah (has to be a dude) going by Breast Milk Enjoyer. This seems pretty well thought out.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    at first i parsed it as "the dishwasher was civilization" which i was like, "a weird take" but i am willing to consider any thesis that seems to be centering household labor and the unforeseen ways technology and appliances reconfigure our experiences.

    then i realized he was saying that civilization is when people of lower social standing are conscripted to wash a bunch of dishes all day so fancy people can have wildly opulent treats requiring an absurd amount of effort by the former, because otherwise they might have thoughts about it.

    this made me too irate to even notice the name until you pointed it out, which is somehow rivaling the rest to be the craziest part of this post. like what in the shit.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
      hexagon
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      3 days ago

      Ohhh, yeah, that is a weirdly placed hyphen. I think he's saying it was an invention that ruined Korean civilization not that it was a metaphorical civilization which ended Korean innovation. The way you read it is technically more correct, but this guy is a dumbass.