> “Washing clothes by hand is a chore, oftentimes a lonely one. But it needn’t be. We could have communal washing facilities in each neighborhood where people c

> “Washing clothes by hand is a chore, oftentimes a lonely one. But it needn’t be. We could have communal washing facilities in each neighborhood where people can plan to come in groups to do their laundry together,” he proposed on Twitter. “Washing clothes by hand is also tiring work if you have a load, but it’s still physical activity & exercise. We spend time in the gym & running outside to keep fit; would it be so bad to devote some of that time & energy to washing clothes by hand?” I grew up until I was about 7-8 without a washing machine at home, my mom would do the laundry with my grandma, me and siblings would help however kids could and it took many hours to wash a week of laundry. Fuck that noise, a coddled Dutch PhD student who's never had to do this week in, week out, trying to bring back some romanticised view of "communal manual washing". It's absurd to the point of enraging who actually had to live with these conditions at some point.