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March 28, 2003
Friday
 
 
Great moments in capitalism
Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)  Globalization/economics

On March 28, 1797 Nathaniel Briggs patented a rotary clothes washing machine, thereby doing more for female liberation than any bunch of screeching, anti-male, feminist harpies you could name.

Comments

Amen.

I handwashed clothes for a year when I lived in Prague and it was a right pain in the ass. Take that, Code Pink, et al.


Posted by shannon at March 28, 2003 01:38 PM

What's funny is that people will act shocked and appalled that anyone would make such an observation.

You must understand, in a truly enlightened society, men would do laundry as often as women. So home automation would mean nothing. Pragmatism be damned when you're talking about idealism.


Posted by Dean Esmay at March 29, 2003 01:51 AM