Why don't women revolt? I'll tell you why women don't revolt. Because revolting means we have to sew our own damn clothes again, and we just don't have the time. Because as frustrating and as time-consuming as it is to go shopping, women can buy crappy clothes in less time and effort than we think it will take us to learn to sew well enough to tailor, shop for patterns, shop for fabric, and actually sew the stupid things. Never mind finding decent patterns and colors in fabric stores, either. We don't revolt because as sucky as this is, it is an improvement to making all girls spend most of their childhoods learning the skills the essayist takes for granted in her own neighborhood tailor, at the expense of other skills like calculus and French.
In my own family the choice of how to spend time is particularly clear: my mom learned to tailor clothes with her "extra" periods in high school. I took the senior math seminar as a sophomore and learned to solve integral equations. I have Samuel L. Jackson's character in "Long Kiss Goodnight" yelling in my head here: "And I'm NOT -- GOING -- BACK!"
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Date: 2004-12-13 09:10 am (UTC)In my own family the choice of how to spend time is particularly clear: my mom learned to tailor clothes with her "extra" periods in high school. I took the senior math seminar as a sophomore and learned to solve integral equations. I have Samuel L. Jackson's character in "Long Kiss Goodnight" yelling in my head here: "And I'm NOT -- GOING -- BACK!"