Retro Sexism: Laundry will set you free!

[ccharles000]

Run time: 01:34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufkVg-mFhuM   Posted on YouTube: March 02, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 11, 2009 By DU Member: ccharles000 Views on DU: 675

 
This would be funny if not for this: The Vatican agrees with our 50s commercial heroines; their newspaper says that the washing machine did more to liberate modern women than birth control or the "right" to work outside the home. Yeah.

[Burma Jones]

1. Of course, the Church's idea of Modernity stretches back to the voyages of Columbus

And I say the Washing Machine put Laundresses out of business thus depriving millions of an entrepreneurial outlet.......

We shouldn't discount the Washing Machine and the Refrigerator (or tractors and automobiles) as liberating though, they gave many people more leisure time......which many of them used to do things like read something other than the Bible...HA!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

2. they sound just like three talking Malibu Staceys, don't they?

[MrsBrady]

3. ok, let me just say this

that commercial was old, and cheezy...and sexist. of course it is.

May I also say something that my grandmother once told me.
She once said...and I remember exactly almost...
"I often wonder what my mother would think if she could have had all the conveniences that I have today. She worked so hard."
My grandmother went on to talk about how difficult it was to scrub clothes in a basin, hang dry, iron...boil water for clothes....
make her own soap, wash all dishes by hand, grow all your own food, make all your own clothes, make everything. for 10 people.
My great-grandmother died in 1950, after 63 years of working her ass off.

Now in 1959 or so, this same grandmother of mine went to college to finish an education degree
- with a husband, 4 daughters, and the college over two hours away (rural texas panhandle before good interstate roads)
My grandmother actually finished her student teaching in Canyon, with 3 daughters with her and the youngest with an aunt.
My grandfather would come every weekend to bring her supplies, bring the 3 year old, and also BRING THE LAUNDRY.

Now, I think my grandmother would have done all this without the washing machine, but you can't tell me it didn't help.

Oh, and my husband does his own laundry.

In fact, I think I will go start a load...and let it run while I do my homework. I'm back in college too.
I have time, since I'm not scrubbing clothes all day long.

[backtoblue]

4. i read what the vatican said

It was in response to Internation Women's Day and it is disgusting. No wonder christians are brainwashed into thinking of women as second class. I want to puke, then scream, then BURN MY WASHING MACHINE WITH IT FULL OF BRAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!