Subject: gender: the internet is my bitch
sverhoef@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Date: Thu Nov 04 1999 - 15:58:58 CST
sorry for the loquacity--I'll be much better when my medication kicks
in!
Has anyone in class seen "Keetje Tippel" by Paul Verhoeven. Came out in
1975--basically about the industrial revolution's impact and based on
some actual young woman's memoirs, I think.
Jane! Do not answer this--work on your paper!! ;-)
On a not so related note....
Now that I've got the internet, I've got "someone" to do my grocery
shopping for me, to provide me with sexual stimulation, to remind me
when to send cards or presents to my loved ones, to tell me what kind of
presents to buy--all that domestic and sexual and relational work that
used to be the domain of women in general and wives in particular.
For years I've been bitching to my male co-workers that I, too, would
like a wife--someone to deal with all that non-work stuff for me the way
their wives do for them.
It seems like a good deal (the internet "wife," not a human servant!),
especially for women. Then I remember how earlier domestic tech
innovations were supposed to free women, but then housekeeping standards
were simply raised and other female social rituals institutedto suck up
all that extra time. Still, this internet as personal assistant does
seem to drive towards a more level gendered playing field, as long as it
isn't priced out of a gendered salary range and doesn't make people's
personal information available in ways that might be inconvenient or
dangerous.
blah, blah, blah....
Susan
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