“The personal is political,” says she. But it’s also worth considering just how often the political, or allegedly political, is a function of personality and a self-flattering rationalisation for personal shortcomings and sub-optimal choices. Not least among the kinds of people who loudly announce that the personal is political.
In the Guardian, a feminist objects to cleaning her own bathroom.
not “doing” toilets can lead to a number of health problems.
In relationship break-ups, courts have ruled she gets to be paid for all those years she cleaned the toilet. You pay 100% even tough she used the toilet 50%. Same goes for walking the dog or looking after the kids. My advice is go and hire the cleaning lady or dog walker or nanny and avoid the strife. If you shacked up with a feminist, good chance is you are going to be paying anyway.
I’ll make no claims regarding my own bandwidth, but I’ve come up with a lot of ideas – both mundane, and life altering – while doing dumb stuff. (And a lot of really crazy stuff which I would prefer to forget.)
It’s possible she doesn’t have too much bandwidth if simple tasks require that much focus.
“Cognitive bandwidth” I like that phrase. This https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1731176 is definately an example of a lack of cognitive bandwidth 🙂
“””But it’s also worth considering just how often the political, or allegedly political, is a function of personality and a self-flattering rationalisation for personal shortcomings and sub-optimal choices.””” The comment detracts from the real issue.
The author of the Guardian article is making use of a feminist slogan and expanding the issue from personal to societal, thus turning toilet cleaning into a collective guilt trip. That the courts reward females for time spent cleaning toilets (per the 100%-50% formula) says that the feminists have been successful in turning toilet cleaning into a societal issue. There is nothing fair and equal about the 100%-50% formula. But then it never was about fair and equal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_personal_is_political
I remember when the early women’s libbers demanded that housewives be paid for the services they rendered, even if their husbands were the primary breadwinners.
It all comes down to selfish entitlement. She wanted the benefits of having a husband and children without putting in her share of the effort.
Don’t laugh too loud.
A big reason the West’s floodgates were opened to Third World immigration is that pampered “liberated” women refuse to do housework.
They were always too vain. Now they’re oh so busy at a job in a government or corporate bureaucracy, making it much harder for the men to do the real work of growing, making and building things than it has to be, and then finding excuses to outsource all the honest work to China.
The root of all evil was never money. It was women who didn’t know when they were well off.
“..The unequal division of labour at home is a systemic issue that needs structural social change to solve it…”
Complete MARXIST BS. It takes 2 people who will selflessly work together…as I and my wife of 30 yrs have.
This lazy cunning stunt is your classic Faux womens libber finding everything that occurs in her self loathing miserable life is inevitably the fault of some man. Likely short, purple haired, fat and flat out Fugly.
If you’re married to this useless type of twat…? remove thyself. You will thank yourself in time.
She’s a lazy…twit…who got used to not having to do anything around the house thanks to the privilege of her hard-working “partner”, which enabled her to pursue her “career” as a freelancer. Now that she has literally no choice in rearing an infant, she realises that she’s run head-on into the reality of actual responsibility, and she doesn’t like it, not one bit. So, the only “logical” response–in her deluded mind, such as it is–is to destroy the patriarchy, so someone else can do the actual work.
As a parent, this pains me somewhat to say, but her child will be better off without her in her daughter’s life. Much better.
When the car doesn’t start, she phones into work and says her useless husband can’t repair it today because it’s his “laundry day” ?
*yes I know she “works from home”. I’m speaking to feminists in general.
Many years ago, I had a date with a young lady who had feminist leanings. She believed that in a marriage, the husband should do more of the wifely tasks–something about “equality” and all that.
Then I asked her what she would do if her car needed maintenance, such as an oil change. “Oh, I’d get my husband to do that.”
Fortunately, that was the only time we went out.