RE: RE: I will go for my Dream Kitchen
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RE: I will go for my Dream Kitchen

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Hi to you,

my question to you would be: Are you the only woman running the household in terms of cooking, cleaning and maintaining the household space and goods? If so, your wish to have machinery is understandable.
If there are no other woman around on a daily and self guaranteed basis, like "that's just the normal thing", you are a lonely person in your household, like so many "modern women" are in my country. If you have a family to care for, like a father and one or two children, then three people already get you load full of work in terms of cooking and cleaning already. I think, what we modern feminists failed to see, was that the solution to that cannot be "replacing company by machinery" but keeping the company of the others close to oneself. But since the development in your country is on the same path like ours was, I think a way back to family and bigger families seems to be closed, as motherhood becomes a decreasing phenomena in "developed societies".
I think I am a spoilsports towards your delight of having all these nice helpers in your household. Which they indeed can be. If that leads you to be in more company of other human beings than less, no worries. But I am afraid, statistics show something else, if one bothers to look at them (or, can trust them).

Not only that the children are sent to day care but women become obsolete as a valuable contributor to private households if cleaning and cooking is something frowned upon, which it often is (as "lesser and dumb work").

I myself am having machine helpers, so I can tell they do not make me happier. They spare me some nasty duties, that's true. I would not want to miss the washing machine or the vacuum cleaner.

Anyways, that were my two cents :)