I remember when we were all yelling about Sarah Ditum people were calling me a misogynist for saying that even though she was screaming to the high heavens that she SHOULD be allowed to bring a cleaner into her home she wasn't actually advocating reopening
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Well now her friend Helen Lewis is explicitly doing that Is this what they call feminism in the UKpic.twitter.com/qCQjXyWnIU
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"Well they're opening restaurants and hair salons but not schools and it isn't FAIR" For God's sake Helen They shouldn't be opening anything at all, but YOU DON'T HAVE A CHOICE WHETHER TO GO TO SCHOOL JESUS CHRIST IT'S NOT THE SAME THING
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Yeah the idea of an "exposure budget" is utterly fucking delusional and anyone with a lick of common sense understands why The moment you reopen schools you might as well reopen everything else, it doesn't matter anymorepic.twitter.com/WU9GjXjXRO
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The (very bad) argument for reopening restaurants is that you can "manage risk", people can choose whether or not to go based on their own self-assessed "risk level", they can "be mindful" and alter their behavior over the course of one restaurant visit
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Reopening schools is putting a bunch of CHILDREN all in one big petri dish and doing it ALL DAY EVERY DAY It is a GUARANTEE that infection WILL spread Fucking Christ
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Hey, newsflash Helen Teachers are disproportionately women, and disproportionately older You are asking for a subset of women in an underpaid profession to shoulder immense amounts of risk so other women can go back to their cooler better jobs A+ feminism
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In b4 "Arthur you don't get to tell women what is and isn't feminism you misogynist" Can I tell a rich person what is and isn't exploitation then Because if anyone is going to turn me into a class-firster it's the sheer callous privilege of this kind of white feminist garbage
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Like... if COVID wasn't a thing, sure, I'd agree with her nominally, people should be more responsible for their childcare, and it shouldn't defacto be the mother's job. But, *right now*, either you can't afford a nanny, or you would be working from home?
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