Re: AUT: [Fwd: We Were A Funny Comando]

[Katha Pollitt <kpollitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One last point on Wages for Housework.If Monty's arguments in its favor
are right, It is interesting that this idea never got off the ground,
even with housewives.  I'd be interested in WfH fans' ideas about why
that was.
 I still maintain that WfH failed to appeal  because it is too closely
tied to a set of family and gender relations that were already on their
way out WITH GOOD REASON  when WfH got started. After all, how many men
would stay home and wait on their wives in return for a modest check
(from govt? wives' employer? This is never made clear)? The truth is,
being someone else's support staff as your primary identity is not an
appealing way to live for most people. It can only be foisted on people
by filling their minds from infancy on with sexist drivel. Without a
framework of gender inferiority and dependency, WfH would not exist as
an idea -- because  The idea that one partner should work for pay  and
the other keep house  would not exist.
why leftists would want to shore up this kind of marriage by  paying
women to stay in it is beyond me.


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