Ohshits Marxism.

Marx discusses women as the "original slaves."

Men and women used to both play a part. Men built shit and killed shit, and for a long time nobody needed to pay anybody else to do this. Women used their bodies to make people. These people were eventually capable of contributing. Important job, being a woman!

This is fine until you start using money. Then you have to start dividing things into what's worth paying for and what isn't. We pay people to build shit and kill shit, but we don't pay much for the things women do. Eleanor Leacock's solution would be to pay women for having children, since it isn't fair that a woman's specialization should be unpaid while a man's is worth money.

So I'm interested in hearing what people think. I'm ambivalent on the issue, as what a Marxist would say is different from what many feminists would say (and equalists, since apparently we're going to have to keep these separate).

This sounds like a controversial enough suggestion that somebody's got to have an opinion.

What do you think?

Ohshits Marxism.

Marx discusses women as the "original slaves."

Men and women used to both play a part. Men built shit and killed shit, and for a long time nobody needed to pay anybody else to do this. Women used their bodies to make people. These people were eventually capable of contributing. Important job, being a woman!

This is fine until you start using money. Then you have to start dividing things into what's worth paying for and what isn't. We pay people to build shit and kill shit, but we don't pay much for the things women do. Eleanor Leacock's solution would be to pay women for having children, since it isn't fair that a woman's specialization should be unpaid while a man's is worth money.

So I'm interested in hearing what people think. I'm ambivalent on the issue, as what a Marxist would say is different from what many feminists would say (and equalists, since apparently we're going to have to keep these separate).

This sounds like a controversial enough suggestion that somebody's got to have an opinion.

What do you think?

Ohshits Marxism.

Marx discusses women as the "original slaves."

Men and women used to both play a part. Men built shit and killed shit, and for a long time nobody needed to pay anybody else to do this. Women used their bodies to make people. These people were eventually capable of contributing. Important job, being a woman!

This is fine until you start using money. Then you have to start dividing things into what's worth paying for and what isn't. We pay people to build shit and kill shit, but we don't pay much for the things women do. Eleanor Leacock's solution would be to pay women for having children, since it isn't fair that a woman's specialization should be unpaid while a man's is worth money.

So I'm interested in hearing what people think. I'm ambivalent on the issue, as what a Marxist would say is different from what many feminists would say (and equalists, since apparently we're going to have to keep these separate).

This sounds like a controversial enough suggestion that somebody's got to have an opinion.

What do you think?