reparations & exploitation

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Fri Mar 9 18:51:44 PST 2001


At 05:43 PM 3/9/01 -0800, Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:


> > Miles Jackson wrote:
> >
> > >To conceptualize the second shift as men exploiting women encourages
> > >us to overlook what is to me the important economic arrangement
> > >here: the more valuable labor done in the household, the lower
> > >the wages on which workers can survive. In the end, who really
> > >benefits from the second shift? It is not men as a group; rather,
> > >it is the capitalist class that can shunt the costs of reproducing
> > >the labor force back onto the workers' households.
> >
> > Yeah, but what about the men who don't have to swab the toilet?
> >
> > Doug
>*********
>
>A man ain't a man unless he can clean toilets faster and fiercer than a woman;
>now where's my ECOVER [http://www.ecover.com/] and my brush :-)
>
>Ian

a man ain't a man if he actually calls cleaning a toilet swabbing it. whaddya use doug, a Qtip. swab. he must have good aim!



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