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If your movement isn’t explicitly and actively anti racist then it’s permissive of racism. There is no in between.
The Politics of Housework
September 22, 2016
classic feminist writings
by Pat Mainardi (1970). A widely read article from a member of the NY Redstockings Group about the savage inequalities in domestic family labor. by Pat Mainardi of Redstockings (Editors Note: This article was originally published by Redstockings in 1970. Redstockings was an early women’s liberation group centered in New York and was responsible for a number of influential writings.)
Though women do not complain of the power of husbands, each complains of her own husband, or of the husbands of her friends. It is the same in all other cases of servitude; at least in the commencement of the emancipatory movement. The serfs did not at first complain of the power of the lords, but only of their tyranny. -John Stuart Mill On the Subjection of Women
Liberated women-very different from Women’s Liberation! The first signals all kinds of goodies, to warm the hearts (not to mention other parts) of the most radical men. The other signals-HOUSEWORK. The first brings sex without marriage, sex before marriage, cozy housekeeping arrangements (“I’m living with this chick”) and the self-content of knowing that you’re not the kind of man who wants a doormat instead of a woman. That will come later. After all, who wants that old commodity anymore, the Standard American Housewife, all husband, home and kids? The New Commodity; the Liberated Woman, has sex a lot and has a Career, preferably something that can be fitted in with the household chores-like dancing, pottery, or painting.
On the other hand is Women’s Liberation-and housework. What? You say this is all trivial? Wonderful! That’s what I thought. It seemed perfectly reasonable. We both had careers, both had to work a couple of days a week to earn enough to live on, so why shouldn’t we share the housework? So I suggested it to my mate and he agreed-most men are too hip to turn you down flat. You’re right, he said. It’s only fair. Then an interesting thing happened. I can only explain it by stating that we women have been brainwashed more than even we can imagine, Probably too many years of seeing television women in ecstasy over their shiny waxed floors or breaking down over their dirty shirt collars. Men have no such conditioning. They recognize the essential fact of housework right from the very beginning. Which is that it stinks.
Here’s my list of dirty chores: buying groceries, carting them home and putting them away; cooking meals and washing dishes and pots; doing the laundry digging out the place when things get out of control; washing floors. The list could go on but the sheer necessities are bad enough. All of us have to do these things, or get someone else to do them for us. The longer my husband contemplated these chores, the more repulsed he became, and so proceeded the change from the normally sweet, considerate Dr. Jekyll into the crafty Mr. Hyde who would stop at nothing to avoid the horrors of-housework. As he felt himself backed into a comer laden with dirty dishes, brooms, mops and reeking garbage, his front teeth grew longer and pointier, his fingernails haggled and his eyes grew wild. Housework trivial? Not on your life! Just try to share the burden.
So ensued a dialogue that’s been going on for several years. Here are some of the high points: “I don’t mind sharing the housework, but I don’t do it very well. We should each do the things we’re best at.” MEANING: Unfortunately I’m no good at things like washing dishes or cooking. What I do best is a little light carpentry, changing light bulbs, moving furniture (how often do you move furniture?). ALSO MEANING: Historically the lower classes (black men and us) have had hundreds of years experience doing menial jobs. It would be a waste of manpower to train someone else to do them now. ALSO MEANING: I don’t like the dull, stupid, boring jobs, so you should do them.
“I don’ t mind sharing the work, but you’ll have to show me how to do it.” MEANING: I ask a lot of questions and you’ll have to show me everything every time I do it because I don’t remember so good. Also don’ t try to sit down and read while I’M doing my jobs because I’m going to annoy hell out of you until it’s easier to do them yourself.“
“We used to be so happy!” (Said whenever it was his turn to do something.) MEANING: I used to be so happy. MEANING: Life without house work is bliss. No quarrel here. Perfect Agreement.
“We have different standards, and why should I have to work to your standards? That’s unfair.” MEANING: If I begin to get bugged by the dirt and crap I will say, “This place sure is a sty” or “How can anyone live like this?” and wait for your reaction. I know that all women have a sore called “Guilt over a messy house” or “Household work is ultimately my responsibility.” I know that men have caused that sore-if anyone visits and the place is a sty–they’re not going to leave and say, “He sure is a lousy housekeeper.” You’ll take the rap in any case. I can outwait you. ALSO MEANING: I can provoke innumerable scenes over the housework issue. Eventually doing all the housework yourself will be less painful to you than trying to get me to do half. Or I’ll suggest we get a maid. She will do my share of the work. You will do yours. It’s women’s work.
“I’ve got nothing against sharing the housework, but you can’ t make me do it on your schedule.” MEANING: Passive resistance. I’ll do it when I damned well please, if at all. If my job is doing dishes, it’s easier to do them once a week. If taking out laundry, once a month. If washing the floors, once a year. If you don’t like it, do it yourself oftener, and then I wont do it at all.
“I hate it more than you. You don’t mind it so much.” MEANING: Housework is garbage work. It’s the worst crap I’ve ever done. It’s degrading and humiliating for someone of my intelligence to do it. But for someone of your intelligence….
“Housework is too trivial to even talk about.” MEANING: It’s even more trivial to do. Housework is beneath my status. My purpose in life is to deal with matters of significance. Yours is to deal with matters of insignificance. You should do the housework.
“This problem of housework is not a man-woman problem. In any relationship between two people one is going to have a stronger personality and dominate.” MEANING: That stronger personality had better be me.
“In animal societies, wolves, for example, the top animal is usually a male even where he is not chosen for brute strength but on the basis of cunning and intelligence. Isn’t that interesting? MEANING: I have historical, psychological, anthropological and biological justification for keeping you down. How can you ask the top wolf to be equal?
“Women’s liberation isn’t really a political movement.” MEANING: The revolution is coming too close to home. ALSO MEANING: I am only interested in how I am oppressed, not how I oppress others. Therefore the war, the draft and the university are political. Women’s liberation is not.
“Man’s accomplishments have always depended on getting help from other people, mostly women. What great man would have accomplished what he did if he had to do his own housework?” MEANING: Oppression is built into the system and I, as the white American male, receive the benefits of this system. I don’t want to give them up.
Participatory democracy begins at home. If you are planning to implement your politics, there are certain things to remember.
He is feeling it more than you. He’s losing some leisure and you’re gaining it. The measure of your oppression is his resistance.
A great many American men are not accustomed to doing monotonous, repetitive work which never issues in any lasting, let alone important, achievement. This is why they would rather repair a cabinet than wash dishes. If human endeavors are like a pyramid with man’s highest achievements at the top, then keeping oneself alive is at the bottom. Men have always had servants (us) to take care of this bottom stratum of life while they have confined their efforts to the rarefied upper regions. It is thus ironic when they ask of women-Where are your great painters, statesmen, etc.? Mme. Matisse ran a military shop so he could paint. Mrs. Martin Luther King kept his house and raised his babies.
It is a traumatizing experience for someone who has always thought of himself as being against any oppression or exploitation of one human being by another to realize that in his daily life he has been accepting and implementing (and benefiting from) this exploitation; that his rationalization is little different from that of the racist who says, “Black people don’ t feel pain’ (women don’t mind doing the shitwork); and that the oldest form of oppression in history has been the oppression of 50 percent of the population by the other 50 percent.
Arm yourself with some knowledge of the psychology of oppressed peoples everywhere, and a few facts about the animal kingdom. I admit playing top wolf or who runs the gorillas is silly but as a last resort men bring it up all the time. Talk about bees. If you feel really hostile bring up the sex life of spiders. They have sex. She bites off his head. The psychology of oppressed peoples is not silly. Jews, immigrants, black men and all women have employed the same psychological mechanisms to survive’ admiring the oppressor, glorifying the oppressor, wanting to be like the oppressor, wanting the oppressor to like them, mostly because the oppressor held all the power.
In a sense, all men everywhere are slightly schizoid-divorced from the reality of maintaining life. This makes it easier for them to play games with it. It is almost a cliché that women feel greater grief at sending a son off to a war or losing him to that war because they bore him, suckled him, and raised him. The men who foment those wars did none of those things and have a more superficial estimate of the worth of human life. One hour a day is a low estimate of the amount of time one has to spend "keeping” oneself. By foisting this off on others, man has seven hours a week-one working day more to play with his mind and not his human needs. Over the course of generations it is easy to see whence evolved the horrifying abstractions of modern life.
With the death of each form of oppression, life changes and new forms evolve. English aristocrats at the turn of the century were horrified at the idea of enfranchising working men-were sure that it signaled the death of civilization and a return to barbarism. Some working men were even deceived by this line. Similarly with the minimum wage, abolition of slavery, and female suffrage. Life changes but it goes on. Don’t fall for any line about the death of everything if men take a turn at the dishes. They will imply that you are holding back the revolution (their revolution). But you are advancing it (your revolution).
Keep checking up. Periodically consider who’s actually doing the jobs. These things have a way of backsliding so that a year later once again the woman is doing everything. After a year make a list of jobs the man has rarely if ever done. You will find cleaning pots, toilets, refrigerators and ovens high on the list. Use time sheets if necessary. He will accuse you of being petty. He is above that sort of thing (housework). Bear in mind what the worst jobs are, namely the ones that have to be done every day or several times a day. Also the ones that are dirty-it’s more pleasant to pick up books, newspapers, etc., than to wash dishes. Alternate the bad jobs. It’s the daily grind that gets you down. Also make sure that you don’ t have the responsibility for the housework with occasional help from him. “I’ll cook dinner for you tonight” implies it’s really your job and isn’t he a nice guy to do some of it for you.
Most men had a rich and rewarding bachelor life during which they did not starve or become encrusted with crud or buried under the liner. There is a taboo that says women mustn’ t strain themselves in the presence of men-we haul around 50 pounds of groceries if we have to but aren’t allowed to open a jar if there is someone around to do it for us. The reverse side of the coin is that men aren’t supposed to be able to take care of themselves without a woman. Both are excuses for making women do the housework.
Beware of the double whammy. He won’t do the little things he always did because you’re now a “Liberated Woman,” right? Of course he won’t do anything else either….
I was just finishing this when my husband came in and asked what I was doing. Writing a paper on housework. Housework? he said. Housework? Oh my god how trivial can you get? A paper on housework.
hey so uhhh here’s an important update on what’s apparently happening at the border, especially with the use of the old japanese internment camps
all i can say is i’m sickened by this mess, by the atrocities committed against innocent people. and now there will be no surveillance. no one will be able to see what happens to these people. the UN, the media, and any other human rights organizations cannot get into these facilities, either, in order to stop what’s happening. by the way, coast guard members were apparently aiding in this process as well. so now it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a military movement.
no one gets in. no one gets out.
so when are we going to call this what it is? it’s fascism. it’s genocide. and if we don’t stop it now, it’s going to be disastrous.
contact your senators, your representatives, anyone that’s in office that can get off their lazy ass and do something.
can y’all please reblog this i’m begging
In reading this i actually threw up. Dont look away. Please
Look on and spread the word. Keep pointing fingers, don’t give up.
I know this account is a shrine for Apollo, but this is my biggest following and I genuinely dont think he would be upset at me for spreading awareness of this to those who dont know. Its disgusting. Its inhumane. This is what “America the Brave” has become.
Hey, all of you folks who say you would have resisted during the Holocaust or done something to try and fight the Nazis, or say you would have been on the right side of history with X human rights violation? This is happening NOW. It’s time to prove it.
I feel awful sitting here doing very little to help; I feel like I have an ethical and moral obligation to be doing more than I am now, but I don’t live near where this is happening and am not sure HOW to help.
To those more educated on this: how can someone who doesn’t live near these areas help out? Where can we donate that will make a difference? How can we contribute to an active resistance?
And with all the sources cited, how could I but mindlessly reblog and clutch my pearls in showy horror.
i know y’all don’t want to hear this but coping mechanisms aren’t inherently healthy and just because it helps you in the moment doesn’t mean it won’t hurt you in the long run
when people tell you your coping mechanism is unhealthy they aren’t trying to police you or tell you what to do, they’re pointing out that you are hurting yourself and possibly hurting others and that you should find better ways to work through your trauma to have a better outcome in life
there are so many things that happened to me as a child that i saw as acceptable and normal. that i saw as just a normal part of growing up as a girl. it’s disgusting how normalized it is. do not tolerate the abuse young girls face. make a disgusted face when men whistle at teenage girls in the street. don’t excuse boys’ actions when they grope their female classmates. it’s not just “guys being dudes”, it’s not biologically determined, it’s taught and normalized. don’t let it happen.
Can the women out there who opt out of body hair removal reblog this? We can show people that we exist, and show others that they’re not alone.
From Girl Scout’s social media. The original Twitter thread is here.
hey guys, did you know that uhhhhh
referring to radfems alongside terrorist groups like incels or the kkk despite there never being a radical feminist terrorist or even support for terrorism within radical feminism is a conscious manipulation effort aimed at getting you to believe women talking is literally the same as men commiting mass acts of violence so that violence against radfems appears justified?
Racists and homophobes are not my allies just because they also know men who call themselves lesbians are insane :/
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LIBFEM BULLSHIT. OMFG. I can’t even deal with this right now. Can someone else take this one?
Ana makes more money each year she gains experience in her career
Julia loses money each year because she is seen as an object that is “used up” by her job
Ana’s occupational hazards include repetitive motion injuries and construction accidents, and she is protected by OSHA and workers compensation laws if something happens
Julia’s occupational hazards include rape, pregnancy, beatings, rectal prolapse, murder, PTSD, and sexually transmitted diseases. OSHA does not care.
Ana isn’t offered extra money for failing to wear a hardhat in construction zones
Julia is offered extra money for having sex without a condom
If Ana turns down a client they will go to someone else that can also safely turn them down
If Julia turns down a client they may react violently, or they will go to someone who can’t turn down clients
Ana’s colleagues are like her- they are highly paid and well educated. they all have many options besides being architects. Most of them are men.
Julia’s colleagues are forced into their jobs and have few (if any) options. Almost all of them are women and children.
[Screenshot taken of this commentary]
“In a study submitted at trial with 854 women in 9 countries, including Canada, 89% of women interviewed said they wanted out of prostitution. In another study submitted at trial conducted in the downtown eastside of Vancouver, 95% of prostituted women interviewed said they wanted out of prostitution“
Here are some statistics of what goes on in porn and the industry from an LA based survivor organization
Also read: Why Sex Work Isn’t Work
Also a reminder that “sex work” is not a neutral or objective term but a liberal one (tied in with economics) that specifically comes out of the 1970s United States pro-prostitution movement and is about an ideology that promotes the sex industries by using language to gloss over its harms:
Many in favor of the legalization of prostitution refer to it as “sex work” and employ concepts such as “consent,” “agency,” “sexual freedom,” “the right to work,” and even “human rights” in the course of making their defense.[1] Consider some of the common claims defenders of legalization advance: sex work is work just like any other form of work, only the social shame and stigma around sex prevent people from seeing it as such;[2] many (most) women[3] who sell sex chose to be there, so we should respect their choice and agency, after all they are in no different a position than someone who chooses a minimum wage job without better alternatives;[4] women choosing to sell sex is an example of sexual freedom and rejecting repressive norms that limit women’s sexuality,[5] so we should respect their sexually autonomous choices to sell sex for a living. - Why Sex Work Isn’t Work by Lori Watson
Also, many of the formerly prostituted do not support being called “sex workers” or them being prostituted being called “sex work.”
“In January 2014, 61 South Asian victims and survivors of prostitution as well as women’s groups representing communities marginalized by caste, class and ethnicity and antitrafficking organizations helping girls and women “trapped in bonded labour and other forms of servitude” wrote to Mlambo-Ngcuka to protest the new UN Women policy of avoiding the word prostitution.
“We do not want to be called ‘sex workers’ but prostituted women and children, as we can never accept our exploitation as ‘work,’ ” the letter signers wrote. “We think that the attempts in UN documents to call us ‘sex workers’ legitimizes violence against women, especially women of discriminated caste, poor men and women and women and men from minority groups, who are the majority of the prostituted.”
They are still awaiting an answer from UN Women, Gupta said.
Censoring comment about violence against girls and women is not new in the Commission on the Status of Women or in the UN more broadly. Nafis Sadik, the outspoken executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, from 1987 to 2000, said in an interview in 2013 that there had been numerous attempts to silence her, often from pressure by governments.” — Prostitution: A Word That UN Women Does Not Want to Hear | March 31, 2015
Cherry Smiley’s AWAN address to the 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the UN in 2011.
[Gifset source]
“Please be aware that the term ‘sex work’, which is found in your public policies and documents, came out of the US sex trade of the 1970’s. It was invented with the particular aim of normalising and sanitising prostitution for the public and for lawmakers in particular, and you have done a great service for those who profit from prostitution by your acceptance and adoption of it. Simultaneously you have also – inadvertently, we acknowledge – levelled a painful insult against us. We are, all of us, sex-trade survivors; the living witnesses of a dehumanising trade, and any acceptance of our abuse as ‘work’ further dehumanises us.“ — Open Letter from Survivors, Alliance of Women for the Abolition of Prostitution
Rachel Moran on the terms "Sex Work" and "Sex Worker".
[Gifset source]
❌Prostitute- defines the woman as a prostitute
❌Sex worker- implies it’s her choice, which it usually isn’t
✅Prostituted woman- explains that she is a woman, and has more qualities than being a prostitute. also explains that outer forces are making her “choose” prostitution
The logical conclusion of the “sex work is real work” ideology is this: In a situation where you do not qualify for government assistance if you have turned down a job, and prostitution is considered a job like any other, then you are not free to turn down the “job” of sex work. Thus prostitution becomes compulsory for low income women. But sure, keep bragging about the $300 you made from OnlyFans and acting like there’s no difference between you and a sex trafficked woman.
This scenario literally already happened and its terrifying
‘If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits’
Under Germany’s welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit. Last month German unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month to 4.5 million, taking the number out of work to its highest since reunification in 1990. The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars. As a result, job centres must treat employers looking for a prostitute in the same way as those looking for a dental nurse.
And yet, they don’t treat it the same for a man.
hey if you’re a closeted radfem or a lurking genderist and you follow my blog, I will not out you, ever. I understand that there are unfortunately consequences for having “radical” (read: feminist) beliefs on this site, and a lot of people have trans or trans-ally friends they don’t want to lose- I’m in the same boat. If I see you in my likes or follows and notice you’re not a radfem blog, I’m not gonna bother or even individually acknowledge you. As long as you don’t out yourself by sending death/rape threats/suicide bait/racism/antisemitism/homophobia/etc. I have no reason to individually acknowledge you. And if you ever decide to terf/tehm out and join us… you’re welcome here. We don’t bite. We don’t “speak in dogwhistles.” And most of all, we do our best to learn. To expand our knowledge. And if you do rad out and lose some friends in the gender fandom, you’ll gain us. We’re a community. And we will accept you.
I don't think the Karen meme and the word "terf" are slurs. But that doesn't mean they're not misogynistic and a way of silencing women
Periodic reminder that pornhub is garbage
I'm surprised so many comments on this are saying she's NTA but of course almost every one of those comments also includes "people can have their kinks, it's just this particular circumstance makes it weird" like??? These people are so depraved. How is anyone watching porn like that okay? Regardless of whether they're a step parent or not it's fucking gross.
he literally admitted he fantasizes about fucking her daughter. restraining order. now.
Guillotine
KILL HIM
I’m not a big theory person, but this might help.
I’m always amazed at people who manage to be succinct and precise when to explain that I would have needed like 3 pages.
The reasons why many men pay for sex are revealed in the interviews that make up a major new piece of research
This entire thing should be a must-read for anyone who has the standard liberal feminist stance on “sex workers” and their “career choices”, or for any radical feminists who are looking for yet more evidence that prostitution is a degradation and that johns are scum.
Some choice excerpts:
“[O]f 700 men interviewed […] just over half were either married or in a relationship with a woman.”
[One participant] said: “I want my ideal prostitute not to behave like one,” he said, “to role-play to be a pretend girlfriend, a casual date, not business-like…”
“I asked [one participant] how often he thought the women he paid enjoyed the sex. ‘I don’t want them to get any pleasure,’ he told me. ‘I am paying for it and it is her job to give me pleasure. If she enjoys it I would feel cheated.’”
“When asked what would end prostitution, one interviewee laughed and said, ‘Kill all the girls.’”
“Almost half said they believed that most women in prostitution are victims of pimps (“the pimp does the psychological raping of the woman,” explained one), lured, tricked, or trafficked. But they still continued to visit them.”
“One of the most interesting findings was that many believed men would “need” to rape if they could not pay for sex on demand.”
“Visiting an area where prostitution is legal or openly advertised [such as Amsterdam or Thailand] had given them a renewed dedication to buying sex when they returned to the UK.”
“[One participant] said: ‘Look, men pay for women because he can have whatever and whoever he wants. Lots of men go to prostitutes so they can do things to them that real women would not put up with.’”
Emphasis added.
The johns interviewed were a very foul mixture of “The girls don’t even pretend to like me, it’s all robotic and mechanical” and “I buy access to these women so I can treat them like dirt and i want them to know it.” One of the johns interviewed even said a prostituted woman asked him to help her, said she had been tricked and brought to London on false pretenses, but he just had sex with her and left because she might have been lying to him. I mean… if anyone needs any more proof that men who buy women hate us, don’t care for us, don’t care about anything except their own feelings and their own orgasms, JUST ASK THE JOHNS. They tell on themselves all the damn time but for some reason certain people don’t want to hear it.
http://the-invisible-men.tumblr.com/
http://invisible-men-canada.tumblr.com/
This is who pro-prostiution “anti-SWERF” people fight for.