It's always struck me that the story about 'men keeping women off the workplace; rampant sexism' etc . never truly captured the whole story. Sure feminism itsel

It's always struck me that the story about 'men keeping women off the workplace; rampant sexism' etc . never truly captured the whole story. Sure feminism itself has historically played handmaiden to forces who wanted to see lower wages and higher consumerism, but somehow there is not even an acknowledgement of this today. The talking points always assume that fundamental human tasks like raising a family is infinitely more despicable than working as a drone in a corporation. I'm amused that the powers that be push the story that doing what is often a pointless chore, often for mere survival in contemporary times, is somehow 'more fulfilling' than the above. This is not entirely surprising, since family has essentially become nationalized, while state is being privatised. Orwell's world will probably come into existence due more to reasons that far more insipid and glacial in its accumulation, than those 'big bang' events like terrorism. The latter no doubt are setting up crucial infrastructure for these, but the social aspect is has a much larger time constant.