Thursday 3 October 2013

State Feminism And Economic Collapse

England is a country which is experiencing slow motion economic collapse as the very rich get richer and the rest get poorer, suffocating under a mountain of tax, debt and bureaucracy. It is fast becoming a low wage economy, its productivity at levels way below that of other advanced economies.
The only way it increases economic turnover is by cannibalizing itself  - privatisation and crony capitalism, by bringing in ever increasing numbers of immigrants - more people means more transactions - and most of all by dragging women out of the home and into the 'economy', leaving children in the tender care of low paid, low grade nursery assistants.
Equality means to keep on running, forever feeding the furnaces of the commodity consumer capitalist society.
Dragging women into the workplace has not led to an increase in productive labour by women. Equality is very selective, and the old division of labour between the sexes has scarcely changed.
There have always been women workers, particularly in the caring professions such as nursing and teaching. And the increase in women doctors is an improvement.
Yet despite 50 years of state induced feminism there are few women refuse collectors, construction workers, miners, plumbers, electricians and so on. But there has been a vast increase in the number of women accountants, lawyers and bureaucrats. And the ranks of lawyers, accountants and bureaucrats have swollen to accommodate the ladies.
There has been a similar growth in the meddling professions. Social workers are mostly female.
So women have left the home in vast numbers to do non-jobs, parasitical jobs, obstacle jobs. Once upon a time women were the foundation of society. They did the important jobs.They got in the life boats first because they were more important than the boys. Once upon a time they did productive work like tidying, cleaning, beautifying, shopping, sewing, knitting, looking after the young and caring for the elderly, spending time with the weak and the vulnerable.
But now the meals are uncooked, the houses are dirty, the weak and the vulnerable are shunted off to be taken care of by minimum wage losers.
The love and the creativity, the dignity of women have all been sacrificed, and for what? More hurry, more consumption?
No wonder girls starve themselves and self harm.

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