I’ve come around to the viewpoint that women have been doing almost everything since practically forever and yet every generation has to rediscover this fact. In 1893 women were factory workers and writers and painters and sculptors* and architects and businesswomen and college professors and college presidents and doctors and nurses and social reformers and preachers - yes! preachers! in only a few of the more liberal churches, but still.
Yet each generation forgets, and thinks the women before them never did anything but sew and have babies, because the received narrative, mostly created by men, mostly overwrites these women out of existence - and when it can’t, presents them as exceptions. We aren’t taught that smart and brave and enterprising and creative as things that women just do.
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Date: 2018-11-24 05:47 pm (UTC)Yet each generation forgets, and thinks the women before them never did anything but sew and have babies, because the received narrative, mostly created by men, mostly overwrites these women out of existence - and when it can’t, presents them as exceptions. We aren’t taught that smart and brave and enterprising and creative as things that women just do.
FUCKING SERIOUSLY