#sorry for making this one unrebloggable I'm still sheltering myself

[molsno]

when I read about the potential future of housework in women race & class I was kind of surprised that I hadn't even considered the solution angela davis describes as a possibility before. because yeah actually the way housework is currently done is really primitive when you get down to it, and there's no good reason for it other than to keep women occupied with tiresome, thankless work.

housework could be a public service where trained professionals go door to door and use specialized tools to clean more effectively in a fraction of the time. capitalists don't even invest in creating the kinds of tools that would make housework more efficient because it's simply not profitable in most cases, and even when they do exist, they're too specialized for the average person to justify spending the amount of money necessary to buy one for their own use (just look at the price of roombas for example).

in any case, any communist movement needs to seriously address structural misogyny so that women are no longer forced to do intensive and repetitive manual labor for no reward. the solution should not be financial compensation for women, it should be freeing women from the burden of housework altogether!