I really like this stuff, and I enjoyed the article.
That being said, it glosses over much of society in a way which (I feel) feeds into the Leftwing meme of “oppressed women”.
Most women worked. Most women had jobs. Factory girl, milk maid, parlor maid, whatever. The idea that being a debutante and then a “wife” was your sole career option is just ridiculous.
Very few women were ever debutantes. Most women had ordinary lives. The trope that women were oppressed and forced into extremely constricting roles by a patriarchal society is an error.
Agreed.
Though they hint at American style with the chaperone discussion. However, I for one think chaperones are a good idea - unless you’re over 18, maybe.
Women - and children - had to work, in some way. Only the wealthy generally didn’t work a “job”, getting $, or even tending to back-breaking details of homemaking.
Yes, this was just the very upper crust. Top level of the Titanic cabins. They felt that their role was to set an example for society, and they did it rather well, in my own humble opinion.
Correct.
I’ve read complaints by working class feminists who worked their way up to middle/upper class and criticizing upper class activists.
For example, criticism of the elites demanding equal representation in the boardroom when working class women want better schools, more subsidized childcare, more jobs. (Trump earned many poor white women’s votes on that last point.)
Or liberal elite women complaining about microaggressions on campus while poor women face a much higher rate of rape and far less support than the drunk coed who regrets it.