Feminine Riles: Cartoons to Promote Thought
Work done by men commands more respect than that done by women. Paid work commands more respect than unpaid.
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Important note to Family Values crowd: Want women to return to the home?
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Pay women enough to make the role sufficiently attractive for men to want it.
| Want women to stay at home? — ⚤ — Time to put our societal money where our fundamentalist family values mouth is. Make motherhood a real career. Provide mothers with decent pay, medical benefits, a pension, and educational opportunities. — ⚤ — No woman should ever be trapped in poverty because she chooses children. No mother should have to worry about her children because of losing her husband – whether due to abandonment, illness, or death. No mother should ever have to choose between an abusive husband and homelessness for herself and her kids. — ⚤ — If we can afford sports and war, we can afford kids and stay-at-home moms. |
| GDP not only fails to measure the value of mothers; it also fails to measure the value of Mother Earth. — 🗠 — GDP is never reduced by the depletion of finite resources or by the degradation of our environment. GDP is always increased by the damage we do to our planet, by species destruction, by ecological disaster, by increasing levels of pollution, and by environmental diseases which destroy our health and our children’s future. GDP is then further increased if we attempt to clean-up our mess. — 🗠 — Look on Man’s mighty works and despair … |
| Important note to Family Values people: GNP IS NOT increased by volunteering, by child-care, by elder-care, by housework. GNP IS NOT increased by building a family, by assisting friends, or by leisure time spent recharging one’s batteries. — ⚢ — GNP IS increased by family break-down, by child-abuse, by divorce, by wife-battering, by crime, by imprisonment, by social disintegration, and by environmental destruction. — ⚢ — “The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry, or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” Senator Robert Kennedy |
| Family Values do not mean the family is valuable. — ⚤ — There would be no economy, no society, no community without the unmeasured, unrecorded, and unpaid work provided by the Invisible Woman. — ⚤ — What do we really mean by “Family Values” when we place no value on the work of creating, maintaining and caring for a family? |
Read more on this topic: Women’s unpaid work must be included in GDP calculations: lessons from history
| “Woman’s work” is work and it is worth a lot to our Society: If women were to disappear and men had to do the housework, as well as birth and raise the kids, what would happen to GDP as currently measured? — ⚤ — It would fall significantly as men had to withdraw from the paid economy to perform the unpaid and unrecognized wifely duties. — ⚤ — But you can bet if men were doing the bulk of the housework and childcare that they’d find some way to measure it – and it would be damned well-paid work to boot! |
| Economists tell us “woman’s work” is worthless. — ⚤ — Worthless work = Worthless women — ⚤ — Always remember: A society uses cues from economic signals to develop its laws, policies, and family-based arrangements. The Patriarchy rests on a severely distorted view of economic wealth, social well-being, and the value of women. No wonder it is such a screwed-up and failing system. |
ASSISTED LIVING: Provides ongoing help with daily living for those who wish to retain their independence.
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Typical services include:
‣ Cooking, housekeeping & laundry
‣ Personal care, dressing & grooming
‣ Minor medical care
‣ Health & exercise programs
‣ Transportation
‣ Educational, social, & cultural activities
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Considered appropriate for anyone who no longer wishes to live on their own, but who does not need medical care.
More economical than hiring a housekeeper, a chauffeur, a personal assistant, and a nurse.
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Men have had assisted living for millennia.
It’s called marriage.
| Think about how GDP is measured: If a woman looks after a house, and cares for her own children in that house, then she is not working and contributes nothing to the economy. — ⚢ — Interesting how similar the attitudes of the ungrateful husband and the economist who measures GDP. — ⚢ — The husband says, “You never contributed anything to the marriage.” The economist says, “You never contributed anything to the economy.” |
| Men have CHOSEN to define ONLY paid labour as work. — ⚤ — That is why a man can say to the wife of 30 years, who slaved to feed him, give him sex, care for him, clean his house and raise their family, “You contributed nothing to this marriage … and now you think you’re entitled to half of what I created?” — ⚤ — The operative word is “slaved”: Slave labour is not work … housework is not work … childcare is not work … husband-care is not work. Her contribution to his success may be ignored, because by definition, it was not real. |