Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 18
th, 2020 at 7:35pm:
Women DID do the huge bulk of ironing (now nobody does it.)
Apart from an electric iron in the toolshed “for repairs” I really do not see why smoothing irons belong in the tool shed.
Still, you showed your POWER, eh Set?
So that's what you take from this? Even though you have been throwing your "power" around since you were elected mod of C&C? Not that it was in the wrong place? I'd expect that, much like Arsie, you can never be wrong. The iron is a tool more than it is a women's issue, that's why it's now in the tool shed, I guess I would have left in Tech if you started it there.
Ironing is not a "women's" issue no matter what they did in the past. It'd be like starting a thread about nursing in the "women's issue" MRB. We do not live in the 18th century like you. I ironed clothes with my mum when I was a kid, I'm male, my sister did not. I'm sure in the 18th century they had sweatshops full of kids doing it. And yeah, sure it was women's work for a while. That does not mean a thread about irons and ironing belongs in "Women's Issues" as I'm pretty sure it's not much an issue any more.
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