
Citizen Thom
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As it turns out, bringing women into the workplace en masse had the unintended consequence of taking them out of the home. Who could've predicted?











And 1870 is not a random date but an inflection point in economic history, as @delong explained in his book.

It’s weird how historicized, canonical figures in the arts are all flattened in the popular imagination as having lived in some strange, undifferentiated 19th century. Even the great modernists, who definitionally dwelled within a thoroughly industrialized technological paradigm, are all conceived of as some vague Victorian types who wrote by candlelight.




'A nagging wife really can send her husband to an early grave, but women are immune, Denmark study claims' "Research has found the burden of a demanding partner is linked to extra male deaths each year. Men who had constant demands and worries placed on them by their partners were two and a half times more likely to die within 10 years than those with less stressful relationships, the study of almost 10,000 people found." nationalpost.com/life/a-nagging…


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