Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: "Household Engineering" Message-ID: Date: 3 Jan 91 17:16:29 GMT Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Lines: 28 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu In soc.feminism you write: >There are other goals of feminism: the safeguarding of the dignity of >all women, be they workers or be they household engineers, and =================== >ensuring that society respects whatever choice of lifestyle a woman >makes. Oh Gawd, what a terrible euphamism! I don't mean to come down on what my mom would call a housewife, but those duities do *not* fit with what I think of when I think of an engineer. "Household engineer" sounds too much like "Sanitation engineer"; a title designed to add respect to a very common occupation, but one that ends up degrading it thru sarcasm. Not that I think you mean it sarcastically, but .... Perhaps homemaker is already an honorable profession. And finally, except for this part, I liked what you wrote. Keep up the good work. -Randy -- ============================================================================= My feelings on George Bush's promises: "You have just exceeded the gulibility threshold!" ============================================Randy@ms.uky.edu==================