One of my big pet peeves is when people say "people used to ..." and they describe something well-off or only wealthy people did in the past.
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most annoying generalised-from-rich-people idea is that women used to stay at home while the men worked. Poor women have always worked - and usually ran the home too.(But on the disposable nature of things, have you read about why historical examples of shoes in museums tend to be tiny? I can't find the article I read about it now but it's survival bias again - the shoes that someone outgrew survived to be put into a museum, while the ones that fit got worn out.)
@louisa_ @futurebird the reason why there’re almost no men’s working or everyday clothes in collections — such clothes rarely survive
also, i’ve been browsing a shop in japan (sadly, i forgot its name) they were selling used clothes from europe from some 1900-1940s — every piece was heavily and visibly mended, it was so unusual to look atthe same happens to fancy wedding dresses in museum collections: it’s not that women were that small, it’s they were married when they were lean teenagers
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@carrideen @futurebird as documented (for sexism if not racism or ableism, tho these can all be opposed in a unified fashion as historically specific examples of "might makes right" ) by Joanna Russ: one of the first tactics of the pro-oppression structure is to make each generation of protest feel like the first generation of protest.
@jayalane @carrideen @futurebird
When I was in Civil Defense as a young man, we were asked to hold a meeting, select a spokesperson and write down any grievances we might have.
I was there for a month, we never heard anything back. The whole thing started over again with the next group.
