Tag: women’s labour

pronounrespecter:

larpsandtherealgirl:

Trans activism is a form of emotional labour that women perform for autogynephilic men in return for male approval

when these women take a break from performing emotional labour for a few minutes to form their own thoughts or express their own feelings surrounding issues that affect them as women, they are condemned as “TERFs” and “TERF apologists” and are excommunicated from the trans cult

on a purely visceral level men understand that feminism is based on breaking down female conditioning, part of which is unconditional compassion for men. so in order to adapt, they exploit it by pretending to be women. bam, now you’re actually slaving away for a “”“”“fellow female”“”“”.

this is actually a natural behavior lmfao males in many species use female mimicry to advance their reproductive interests because they need you more than the other way around 👀

Can you give me some examples of female mimicry in the natural world?

pronounrespecter:

larpsandtherealgirl:

Trans activism is a form of emotional labour that women perform for autogynephilic men in return for male approval

when these women take a break from performing emotional labour for a few minutes to form their own thoughts or express their own feelings surrounding issues that affect them as women, they are condemned as “TERFs” and “TERF apologists” and are excommunicated from the trans cult

on a purely visceral level men understand that feminism is based on breaking down female conditioning, part of which is unconditional compassion for men. so in order to adapt, they exploit it by pretending to be women. bam, now you’re actually slaving away for a “”“”“fellow female”“”“”.

this is actually a natural behavior lmfao males in many species use female mimicry to advance their reproductive interests because they need you more than the other way around 👀

Can you give me some examples of female mimicry in the natural world?

inqilabi:

It’s funny that there is this stimga that “oh your mom still packs your lunch” “does your laundry for you”. But then it’s completely fine and socially acceptable that your wife packs your lunch and does your laundry, or if you pay a maid for cleaning services. Like socially it is acceptable to encourage men to find a partner who performs this labour. In fact, men are proud of this attribute when it comes to their partners. When in effect, it’s a transition from your mother taking care of you to your wife taking care of your man-child self.

inqilabi:

It’s funny that there is this stimga that “oh your mom still packs your lunch” “does your laundry for you”. But then it’s completely fine and socially acceptable that your wife packs your lunch and does your laundry, or if you pay a maid for cleaning services. Like socially it is acceptable to encourage men to find a partner who performs this labour. In fact, men are proud of this attribute when it comes to their partners. When in effect, it’s a transition from your mother taking care of you to your wife taking care of your man-child self.

furiousradfem:

okay I’m going to tell a story that I think describes really well why a man and a woman doing the same job, together, can be unequal.

I can’t believe I also need to mention this but do not come at me telling me this doesn’t happen in US, because i don’t care, i am not from us, I am allowed to talk about oppression that happens where I live, this is happening in a poor european country and it’s important and i’m going to speak about it

I’ve been building a roof with bunch of men. We were all doing the same job, equally, I’ve noticed men were often doing a very poor job, not making sure they put the roof tiles in properly and someone had to fix it afterwards, but anyway, that’s not the point. For a woman in this environment she needs to “prove herself” and put in the best effort possible to show how she is as good and useful as any man, so I’ve been pushing myself to do the best job possible and to be quick and efficient and do everything perfectly. And I was doing fine, I was mostly ignored and preferred it that way. They were talking among themselves. However, when it was time for a break, I was shooed off to bring them beverages, as I was the only woman around, and I did, and then they proceeded to laugh and joke around and validate how good of a job they’ve been doing. Meanwhile I had to climb down, bring them beverages, wait until they were done, take them away. Then, since I’ve been doing a good job, they had me do more than they did, they gave me extra tasks, so they could rest more while I was doing the work. Afterwards, the person whose roof it was praised all the men, gave them more beer and beverages, and thanked them. I was shooed aside again, and dismissed.

I noticed in that particular event I was treated like a child, and a servant. I was 24, and felt humiliated when they all got validation and acknowledgment of their work, along with friendly chatter and beverages, and I was used as their servant, my work was dismissed as if what I’ve done was the least expected of me. Being equally good – or better at this job didn’t mean I would get acknowledged, it meant I would get extra tasks and then laughed at by all the men because they found out they could use me more, and get more leisure time for themselves. They think it’s funny when women try hard, they’re stupid to do the men’s job, men will simply assume that they’re in charge then and give women more tasks and laugh at them as they work. 

I’ve noticed women here are often doing most of the work, but are shooed in the background and burdened with extra responsibilities of caretaking, serving, cooking, emotional labor, and they regularly don’t get even half of men’s recognition, reputation, importance or validation, it just doesn’t happen, men are ready to do as little work as possible and to take all the praise and validation for it, they don’t get that sense of having to deserve something first, they feel entitled to it, after all, they’ve been getting it all their life. Women are convinced they first have to work hard to earn recognition – and men use it to make women work harder, and harder and harder, and the recognition? Men take it for themselves. 

This isn’t equal. This is men assuming charge and exploiting women. I don’t think there’s any need for us to try to prove in any way that we can do all they can do – it’s just going to be used against us, and both we and they know we already can do it all, and we can do it better. It doesn’t matter to them. They’re seeking any excuse to humiliate and use us. They don’t care that we can do equal amount of work, they’re just using this against us. 

Women have already proved ourselves.

We don’t need to prove ourselves to men.

getoffmyastroterf:

tabathagfitzgerald:

gustacos:

tabathagfitzgerald:

gustacos:

themodernmisandrist:

If men stopped working…the world would continue on.

If women stopped working, then things would get ugly.

What?

there has been an instance where this happened.
it was 1975 and icelandic women decided not to work for one day. 

working as in cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children, doing chores and so on, not only “not showing up to your workplace”. women did nothing that day, except showing up in reykjavik and protesting for gender equality, equal pay and equal representation in parliament, you know, cool stuff. 

you know what happened? havoc. men were left with food to cook and children they never took care of to pick up from kindergarden and entertain for the day. they went en masse to the food shops buying sausages because they could cook nothing else, they had to bond with children they never spent more than a couple hours a day with. they struggled combining their work day and the domestic tasks they had to sort out. and this just for one day.

iceland in 1975 stopped working and things indeed got ugly.
so ugly that women in the following decades became woke AF and soon it happened that women became president, took half of the seats in parliament and achieved one of the best living environments in the world.

is your astonishment solved now?

omg I actually read some more stuff about it. Their past president was also part of it. They call it “Women’s Day Off” in Iceland 😮

I hope this explains why “half the world population not working of course is a problem” but women can clearly manage without their husbands contribution to their life. the opposite is debatable. 

I need no man to live my life just fine

Women everywhere need to do this.

Black female slaves had shown that they were capable of performing so-called “manly” labor, that they were able to endure hardship, pain, and privation but could also perform those so-called “womanly” tasks of housekeeping, cooking, and child rearing. Their ability to cope effectively in a sexist-defined “male” role threatened patriarchal myths about the nature of woman’s inherent physiological difference and inferiority. By forcing black female slaves to perform the same work tasks as black male slaves, white male patriarchs were contradicting their own sexist order that claimed woman to be inferior because she lacked physical prowess. An explanation had to be provided to explain why black women were able to perform tasks that were cited by patriarchs as jobs women were incapable of performing. To explain the black female’s ability to survive without the direct aid of a male and her ability to perform tasks that were culturally defined as “male” work, white males argued that black slave women were not “real” women but were masculinized sub-human creatures.

bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
(via nervous-lesbian)

biodiverseed:

I often think of that study about stereotypes, wherein children are asked to draw a scientist, and they almost unilaterally draw a bearded white man.

I think if you asked most children to “Draw a Farmer,” you would by-and-large get the same result.

It’s odd, because globally, women are about half of the formal agricultural workforce, and we produce (and cook!) the majority of the world’s food.

I remember my grandmother had a vegetable garden that was about half an acre large. She produced, canned, and prepared the vegetables the family actually ate, whereas my grandfather farmed barley and wheat and took care of the animals. They were both doing intensive agricultural labour, but the difference is he had the chance and to earn money for his work. It’s more than a mere division of labour: it’s a division of capital and freedom that squarely favoured my grandfather. He was “the farmer,” and she was “the farmer’s wife.”

That historical barrier between informal and formal work–and the perceptions of the relative value of both–is a huge part of why women are lagging far behind in factors like property and equipment ownership.

redhester:

keepingtrackofnothing:

I was in a craft store yesterday and there was a Christmas stamp that said ‘Christmas is a time to reflect and spend time with the people you love.’ I looked around at all of the stressed out women rushing around buying decorations and wrapping paper and ribbons and tins to put holiday cookies in and if I had had a sharpie on me I would have changed the front to say ‘Christmas is a time when women do a lot of emotional and relational labour that goes largely unnoticed and is rarely reciprocated’.

‘Christmas is a time when women do a lot of emotional and relational labour that goes largely unnoticed and is rarely reciprocated’.

‘Christmas is a time when women do a lot of emotional and relational labour that goes largely unnoticed and is rarely reciprocated’.

‘Christmas is a time when women do a lot of emotional and relational labour that goes largely unnoticed and is rarely reciprocated’.