The most you can say about Sarah and her friends' reaction even if you accept everything they say as true is that Owen phrased some things insensitively when talking about why you shouldn't be hiring cleaners right now But YOU SHOULDN"T BE HIRING CLEANERS RIGHT NOW
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God fucking dammit And there's this whole pile-on that's 100% about whether or not Owen Jones gave enough respect to theoretical parents out there whose feelings might have been hurt and not the fact that PEOPLE ARE NOW HIRING CLEANERS AGAIN BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT TOLD THEM TO
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Sarah completely made up this shit that it's a culture war between "parents" and "the childless" And not, say, "people who can afford to hire cleaners" and "people who can't", the latter group including "people who work as cleaners" Many of whom ARE PARENTS
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Some cleaner who's in and out of a bunch of bougie shitheads' filthy houses every single day is going to get infected, end up in the hospital and DIE as a result of your concern trolling, Sarah Then their kids will be orphans You really think you're the "pro-parent" side here
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God look at this fucking screenshot And this is after Sarah said in that thread that she was reading a book of feminist history of the Victorian era Hey, you know what also happens when "women's prospects improve?" Feminized labor becomes far more expensive in the marketplacepic.twitter.com/nDRGjTDYke
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The number of people in Victorian England who worked as domestic staff was ENORMOUS, some people estimate it accounted for up to 1/3 of working-class employment among women The story of the 20th century is partly a story of this number plummeting, as "maids" became much rarer
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What's really striking about the 21st century is the reversal of this trend -- it's becoming normal for people who don't live in enormous mansions to have household staff again And those household staff are, once again, almost all women
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The fact that Sarah and Nathan are in a position to even consider hiring a cleaner even though he makes a living playing Minecraft and she makes hers turning bad tweets into articles is a sign of REVERSAL of feminism due to rising inequality It means women's lives are WORSE
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The fact that she doesn't see it this way, she projects herself onto the employer in the manor and not the employees -- "The 1950s were the worst time for women, housewives had to do all the cleaning and cooking for your own family, you couldn't even make the maid do it" JFC
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It's another example of TERFs blatantly using the word "women" to just mean "me"
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