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ace-and-ranty · 9 days ago

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Petty opinion of the day: Pari's Paloma's Labour bothers me for no end for the way it can't pick a setting.

The clip is very medieval-coded, she sings about fetching water from the well and tending the orchards... so like? Are you meant to be a farmer's wife in a historical past? But then she starts talking about "weaponized incompetence" which is a very modern concept that much more evokes urban living and men pretending they can't use the damn washing machine. She's sitting at his "high table", but singing about his "picket fence dreams"?

PICK A LANE, WOMAN?? Are you talking about historical or modern women?! THEIR OPPRESSION DOESN'T WORK THE SAME.

#And also like.#fetching water from the well? tending the orchards?#is THAT what you chose for your depiction of unpaid unaccredited feminine labor?#that is just. that is FARM labor.#all farmers do that.#if we're talking about shit women do that goes unsung it should be... cooking. food preservation. cleaning. making and maintaining clothing #it just bothers me to no end the song can't nail down a time period or a place.#WHO are you talking about Paloma.#is it modern women doing double shifts with work and home care?#is it historical women tending alone to a homestead?#a modern tradwife specifically? WHICH ONE IS IT?#The lack of specificity makes the message lackluster to me.#and like I don't know. you could argue it's something about the legacy of misogyny and how women have been overworked from time immemorial.#but it really doesn't feel like it's telling a cohesive through-line story #so much as it's jumping all over the place.

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