> So the importance of the washing machine is lost on me.
That's because we have them. It's like breathing -- you don't notice it until someone puts his hand over your mouth.
> There's way more to women's liberation than washing machines.
There certainly is, but liberation proceeds one step at a time. If they spent their days hand-washing clothes at the riverbank, women wouldn't have any energy left to notice their oppression.
That's because we have them. It's like breathing -- you don't notice it until someone puts his hand over your mouth.
> There's way more to women's liberation than washing machines.
There certainly is, but liberation proceeds one step at a time. If they spent their days hand-washing clothes at the riverbank, women wouldn't have any energy left to notice their oppression.
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> Besides that, an egalitarian society could have men share in the washing.
True, and in fairness they should. That's why men invented the washing machine.