reparations & exploitation

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 9 15:09:02 PST 2001


Miles Jackson wrote:


>On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Yeah, but what about the men who don't have to swab the toilet?
>>
>> Doug
>>
>
>Yes, systematic, institutionalized sexism. No doubt about it.
>But if we say "second shift = men exploiting women", I still
>think we're missing an important aspect of the exploitation that's
>going on here.

But isn't that a form of uncompensated labor. It's not mediated by money, but men sure derive benefit from it. Well, some men; me, I'm a domestic angel.

Doug



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