Feminists actually talk about this. The unpaid labour that some men do such as helping someone with their car or fixing things around the house are rare, situational jobs. The unpaid work women do (cooking, cleaning, laundry, childcare) is daily, thankless and neverending.
Why don’t we call mens acts of service; unpaid labour? I’ve lost track of the men who have helped me change my tyres or bend to check my engine (knowing I can’t cos my gowns are always short) for FREE on the road.
How about things like getting their neighbours Gen working?
I love transparency like this (we’re not owed it) because it highlights how episodic life is. It’s not this linear straight, perfectly formed line, rather a series of seasons, peaks and troughs, spins, dives, and lulls. It’s antithetical to what we’re taught in fairytales and wider media. And that’s just fine.
At 34 my first marriage ended, left my job to change careers and go back to school, moves to a different city with no support network.
5 years later at 39 I’ve found family in friends, call London my home, working on my first high end TV job, and found love again. What an arc.
why the hell is the Met Commissioner allowed to do the talk show rounds denouncing his boss lol. Basic norms of governance just collapsing in real time
Men who say "women strip naked in front of the camera when they need money, men do hard labor when they need money" ignore these women and erase their existence because they don't serve men's misogynistic and reactionary narratives
I visited my nan a few weeks back. At her place, she showed me what she’s spent her WFA on over the years. One year it was spent on a new mobile phone, another year it was spent on a new pair of headphones.
It breaks my heart that this Labour administration’s ’original sin’ was doing the right thing.
This is ridiculous.
A children's home, for ONE child was BLOCKED after 21 objections were sent.
The complainants said that the children's home would
"not be aligned with the elderly demographic of the area"
It was one child. ONE child.
Why are we so hostile to children?