I can’t reblog this but it’s a good ‘un
“how dare you call a feminist batshit insane, HOW DARE YOU? REPENT!” - a feminist who is batshit insane
Reading the archive does wonders for not taking the person seriously. Like, how is tankie feminism a thing: http://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/moderneurope/molly-wolanski/
I mean:
In 1918 legislature was created to try to weaken marriage and the family to create a unified society focused on the country not the family. The ability to perform marriages was taken away from the church and given solely to the state. With this set of laws also came the right for either the man or woman in a married couple to pursue divorce and win. To feminist Alexandra Kollontai this was great as she saw no future in family structure in Soviet Russia. Although this legislature brought equality to marriage in principle it didn’t in practice. Women were still expected to perform most domestic duties and have a job as men saw it as below them to do housework or go grocery shopping. The role of soviet women in society and in other areas was varied and depended on how conditions were in many aspects.
(emphasis mine^V)
“Hoffman, David L. Stalinist Values The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.Women in Stalinist Russia were treated slightly differently than those under a different president. Women were given lower level jobs in some cases to encourage them to stay home and have more children. This is very clear in the chapter devoted to family values and how they affected the woman in the household. This book also shows the stratification that occurred within the workplace and the gender differences in how they were perceived socially.”
(the West was also shit, but how do you fuck up a revolution that much?)
Gender equality and lack thereof in Soviet and modern Russia is a really interesting topic for a different thread and for me having access to a keyboard.