A 2010 column on the secret thoughts of a cleaner: "Sometimes...I ponder the irones of the job: for example, all the ironing consists of men's clothing. In a bid to escape domesticity, women are refusing to iron their husband's shirts. Congratulations: your act of feminism means that the job is shunted onto a different woman, assigning her to a different rank."
Rebuttal: "But of course, the hiring of domestic help isn't a case of women oppressing other women, because WOMEN DID NOT INVENT DUST...Having a cleaner has nothing to do with feminism. If a middle class woman is engaging in antifeminist activity by hiring a woman to do the cleaning, then surely a middle-class man is engaging in class oppression when he hires a male plumber?"
~Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
Rebuttal: "But of course, the hiring of domestic help isn't a case of women oppressing other women, because WOMEN DID NOT INVENT DUST...Having a cleaner has nothing to do with feminism. If a middle class woman is engaging in antifeminist activity by hiring a woman to do the cleaning, then surely a middle-class man is engaging in class oppression when he hires a male plumber?"
~Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
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