[Fwd: Re: 1900 House]

[Katha Pollitt <kpollitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

bon moun wrote:
>
> >SOME Suffragists (suffragettes is condescending term used by the enemies
> >of femaler suffrage to belittle its supporters)
>
> Point taken.  No offense intended.  Accept criticism.  Take responsibility.

 It's okay -- everybody calls them that, despite the history of the
word.  I was being a bit PC to score a point.
>

>
> Point taken again.  I just have this knee jerk reaction to wonder about the
> servant returning to her own home.

  Back then i think most servants were unmarried women.  they lived with
their parents, or with their employers. Don't mean to belittle their
awful life--when WW1 came along, domestic workers leaped at the chance
to work in factories etc, and basically never went back. If you saw
Upstairs/downstairs, you'll remember how Rose became a busdriver and
loved it.
>
> >
> >let's not forget -- Karl Marx had servants.  engels had servants. how
> >much time do you think Bakunin spent mopping the floor?. As for today, I
> >doubt Castro irons his own shirts or cleans his own toilet. Or Noam
> >Chomsky either!
>
> Don't know.
>
> As an aside:  I wouldn't put Bakunin in the same league with Marx, nor
> Chomsky with Castro.  Just my own bias. (-:

  I was just fishing for names late at night.
>
> I will spend more time thinking before I hit the send button.  I should
> write this a hundred times.
>

Me too!

Katha