I see Owen is showing his usual consideration for feminist discourse
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Replying to @twlldun @sarahditum
good grief, that's an *amazingly* bad take. I'm glad he's got time to do the cleaning, but there are plenty of people* with kids and older family members to care for, plus homeschooling responsibilities etc etc *women
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feminism is to share the responsibility with your husband not exploit a poor women in the midst of a pandemic, you all make me sick
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Replying to @maram_fah @katebevan and
The objection is to Owen saying that people have time. Every family I know with a cleaner has pair their cleaner throughout, has no intention of bringing them back yet, but are exhausted and don’t need to be patronised.
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Replying to @JudeRawlings @maram_fah and
If they lose sight of the fact that they're still better off and always were better off than the people they were paying to do the cleaning then they absolutely do need to be patronized
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JudeRawlings and
There's something maybe on the very narrowest point: people don't necessarily have more time for chores because of quarantines. If she'd stayed on that point, we wouldn't be having this whole discussion.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
There's no argument in this about whether it's helpful to have other people clean your house. It's extremely helpful, that's why people will pay for it. The thing is, of course, the global pandemic.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
That is exactly what the argument was. It was about Owen suggesting people* have time to do it themselves. *women
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Replying to @JudeRawlings @arthur_affect and
The argument was about whether people should keep having cleaners in during a pandemic.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
It was not. Read the first tweets.
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You mean these?pic.twitter.com/g2E21j6Egi
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
“They’ve certainly got the time to do it” was the objection
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Replying to @JudeRawlings @arthur_affect and
It would have been perfectly possible to say, "100% agree but would like some acknowledgement that it's women that are picking up the slack and who don't have more time - [insert link to article about how male academics are submitting more in lockdown but women aren't]
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