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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Heinlein, was SE PA going
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:58:31 EST


> >"Issues" and "Gender" should only come into play when they make practical
> sense.
>

Gender roles are a luxury that the subsistence farmstead can ill afford. I
have delivered babies, I sew, my daughter is teaching me to knit with four
needles, I do half the cooking, etc. In our kitchen any one of us can hand
off
the ladel to any other one and the meal goes on unabated.

In the old logging camps the great brawny bearded men traditionally spent
their free time knitting socks.

James




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