![[PukiWiki]](image/pukiwiki.png "[PukiWiki]")
https://bit.ly/3HGv7Kt https://bit.ly/33aZ4Dx https://bit.ly/3LsypTZ https://bit.ly/3rE1SCt https://bit.ly/3BaeXXs https://bit.ly/3oAP3a7 https://bit.ly/3HCITOm https://bit.ly/3uGCyOq https://bit.ly/34tXaP8 https://bit.ly/3GHQBp8 https://bit.ly/3BbTsp3 https://bit.ly/3uziBJ5 https://bit.ly/3oCmkBR https://bit.ly/3BbgkFa https://bit.ly/3gB8ify https://bit.ly/3uD8xis https://bit.ly/3gzHSL9 https://bit.ly/34lYwvr https://bit.ly/3LlVTdl LouiseC wrote: but I think he'd be a bit taken aback if I suddenly announced that I wasn't going to do anything at all any more because it was my 'traditional' woman's role to be idle and irresponsible. This is quite untrue historically and is economically unviable in most of today's world. Ah, but *I* didn’t announce it. Mike taught me how HE believes the world "ought" to go – and me being his house-servant is NOT it! Mike's Girl by Mike's Girl on 2005 May 20 - 21:39 | reply to this comment Both of us express our thoughts and feelings more freely now There was a Golden Age of idle women,in the 19th century, of course, when upper and middle-class women were not expected to be actively involved in running either the home or their husband's business, but that was in contrast to previous centuries, when it was thought dangerous for women to be idle because they might get into mischief. Which of course they did. Women who in olden times would have been too busy to foment mischief had too much leisure time, and therefore the energetic ones needed something to fill it. Some women took to social reform, like Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale, Josephine Butler etc. Others took to what Queen Victoria described as "this mad, wicked folly of women's rights" and started demanding the vote etc. And look what that led to. See how dangerous it is to let women have time to think? If all those women had been as idle as me, feminism would never have happened, because a life of unlimited leisure would suit me down to the ground, but it drove all those energetic Victorians crazy.
