Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20150523192506/@comment-1496755-20150824101018

Heh, communist slogans don't exactly fit into normal logic. They are supposed to inspire, but without too much thinking. Thinking is not a good thing in this sort of regime :P

These days I've been reading a book called "Soc Gourmet", which is about food and cooking trends in the country during the communist period (1944 - 1989) and their absurdities. The last chapter I read was about how the regime wanted to liberate women from their "slavery in the kitchen". So what they did was making women "equal" by giving them men's jobs (e.g. pouring concrete, carrying bricks, chopping wood, casting molten steel, etc.) so that they have a full-time job. At the same time they also significantly reduced kitchen space in the newly-built homes - women were not supposed to cook at home (this was an evil capitalist thing to do), but rather rely on public state-run food shops and dispensaries for prepared food.

Propaganda got to work, protraying women as very masculine - muscular, wearing worker's clothes, usually shown within industrial environments. Here is an example. This was their idea of an "emancipated contemporary woman".

However, the amount of work at home could never be reduced, public prepared food shops could never really be fully implemented, the state never managed to provide women with more efficient household appliances, and it took away their free time by giving them daily jobs. So the end result was that women were more "enslaved" than ever before - working at a factory during the day and then sweating in the tiny kitchen space in the evening (with primitive tools).

Like they say - the road to Hell is paved with good intentions :P