What misogyny?

[shaayecanaan]

155. I'll tell you a story

There was once a liberal reformer who took umbrage at the fact that there were children working in the textile mills. This liberal was a great campaigner against child labor, and over a long period of time persuaded the textile mills to stop employing children. This was considered a great success by all of his bourgeois liberal friends, and the liberal reformer basked in the satisfaction of a job well done.

A short time later the liberal was walking in the street when he was stopped by a child. "Are you the person who stopped children working in the factories", the child asked. "yes", he beamed proudly, leaning down to smile at her. The child cuffed him across the face as hard as she could. "Because of you, I can no longer work. We only had just enough before, and now without my wage my whole family has been sent to the spikehouse."

It is very blithe of you to insist that there are always alternatives, when for many women there simply aren't any, or if there are they are even worse. When I lived in Africa, I would see half the township women, waist deep in offal and shit trying to collect enough recyclables to eke together enough money for a meal. The other half would be trying to turn tricks. Who are you to deem one path more "acceptable" than the other?