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Poll #23658 Current status?

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Exiled for the good of the realm
29 (25.7%)

I've sworn an oath of solitude til the blight is purged from these lands
62 (54.9%)

Other
22 (19.5%)

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Comments

[marahmarie]

It's a disaster for gender roles. What's the one way (besides covering one's mouth/washing hands/isolation) to slow down or prevent transmission of corornavirus? Cleaning/doing laundry! Guess who did most of that before this hit and has to do much more of it every day from now until possibly the actual end of time.

Guess what has to happen if you can't eat out? Preparing meals at home! Guess who does the majority of that in many households, too. Both of which re-enforces gender-specific stereotypes in the home and outside of it as males continue to act like household tasks and duties are not within their realm.

None of these issues might have been mentioned in the article, but yeah, I'm exhausted, and if not they should have been.

[alexseanchai]

No, that's exactly what the article is about: how coronavirus is worsening the inequities that make feminism necessary.

[marahmarie]

"The Coronavirus is a Disaster for Feminism" is a bullshit clickbait title: feminism is not what's hurting here, as the article itself explains (though not in those words)

*Me: points out amplification of gender role inequalities since the plague began*

No, that's exactly what the article is about: how coronavirus is worsening the inequities that make feminism necessary.

You're confusing me.

[alexseanchai]

"women" and "feminism" are different things

[marahmarie]

Not playing semantic word games with you *bows out*

(No more than I expected though, so don't go thinking you got a rise.)

[alexseanchai]

I mean I WISH all women were feminists, but that still wouldn't mean coronavirus is doing any damage to the concepts feminism comprises, no matter how much coronavirus is hurting people in gendered ways

feminism also isn't taking a PR hit; the opposite, if anything, because people who have been ignoring certain realities are having more difficulty doing that now

[marahmarie]

Point taken. The title itself is yet another disaster, I realize now.

What's needed during a super-contagious viral outbreak (traditionally/stereotypically that's gendered housework, mostly) is only re-enforcing gender stereotypes and deepening existing inequalities - which the article does seem to cover (read every word, though not until much later) which only highlights the need for feminism as it stands and more feminism until it's no longer needed (ETA on that, though: never).

[alexseanchai]

accurate

[marahmarie]

Stuff (and by "stuff" I mean natural disasters, viral outbreaks, economic meltdowns, the apocalypse and so on) like this, it hit me today, always makes *all* existing inequalities that much worse (yes, you can pick your poison on that).