My mother used to say, ‘if you haven’t written your name in the dust at least twice and had it covered up with more dust it’s not time to dust yet.’ But I’m sure these kinds of signs are an attempt to squash feminism. Your proper type where you can do what you want, where if cleaning floats your boats we get to do it without recriminations of any kind from ANYONE. For all society knows those ‘dull women’ might have an immense craft stash behind cupboard doors (🙋🏼♀️ guilty), be a sexual siren in bed (ah, the temptation to write guilty here too 😜), need order to think clearly whilst writing the next amazing poem/novel/phd paper, pay some else to do it, actually enjoy clutter, or just not give a flying f*ck - who knows and who should really care? These signs assign blame and guilt, are divisive, encouraging us to turn against and judge each other when we should be holding each other up. Patriarchy, misogyny, and capitalism working together to keep us down.
My mother used to say, ‘if you haven’t written your name in the dust at least twice and had it covered up with more dust it’s not time to dust yet.’ But I’m sure these kinds of signs are an attempt to squash feminism. Your proper type where you can do what you want, where if cleaning floats your boats we get to do it without recriminations of any kind from ANYONE. For all society knows those ‘dull women’ might have an immense craft stash behind cupboard doors (🙋🏼♀️ guilty), be a sexual siren in bed (ah, the temptation to write guilty here too 😜), need order to think clearly whilst writing the next amazing poem/novel/phd paper, pay some else to do it, actually enjoy clutter, or just not give a flying f*ck - who knows and who should really care? These signs assign blame and guilt, are divisive, encouraging us to turn against and judge each other when we should be holding each other up. Patriarchy, misogyny, and capitalism working together to keep us down.
A fab piece of writing.