[Themaintainers] This Is Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For

[Danny Spitzberg]

(Also, folks here might appreciate that the Dyson brand fan & air purifier,
despite its exorbitant price and slick marketing, ranked 18 out of 20
devices reviewed by Consumer Reports in terms of overall performance)

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:13 AM Danny Spitzberg <danny at peakagency.co> wrote:

> I feel called to echo this powerful quote:
>
> What happens is that women and carers of all genders quietly exhaust
> themselves filling in the gaps, trying to save as many people as possible
> from physical and mental collapse. The people on the front line are not
> fighters. They are healers and carers. The very people whose work is rarely
> paid in proportion to its importance are the ones we really need when the
> dung hits the Dyson.
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:02 AM Kara Andersen <karalynn.andersen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So much this, Camille.
>>
>> On Apr 5, 2020, at 6:40 PM, Camille E. Acey <connect at camilleacey.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> *The end of the world has never been quite so simple a mythos for women,
>> likely because most of us know that when social structures crack and
>> shatter, what happens isn’t an instant reversion to muscular
>> state-of-naturism. What happens is that women and carers of all genders
>> quietly exhaust themselves filling in the gaps, trying to save as many
>> people as possible from physical and mental collapse. The people on the
>> front line are not fighters. They are healers and carers. The very people
>> whose work is rarely paid in proportion to its importance are the ones we
>> really need when the dung hits the Dyson. Nurses, doctors, cleaners,
>> drivers. Emotional and domestic labor have never been part of the grand
>> story men have told themselves about the destiny of the species—not even
>> when they imagine its grave.*
>>
>> https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-apocalypse-myths/
>>
>> --
>> Camille E. Acey
>> http://camilleacey.com
>>
>> *"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and
>> that is an act of political warfare." - *Audre Lorde
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