Contraceptives and washing machines

[susie_flo]

I just listened to an interview with a woman who participated in the Victorian Farm programme for the BBC. She's also a bit of an expert on women's domestic history and made the comment that, in her opinion, the two inventions that have liberated women more than any other are contraceptives and the washing machine... I am inclined to agree.

(...and once I've finished thanking the above inventors, I'd also like to give a nod to those involved in the development of paracetamol. Little, life-changing pills. I especially could not have lived without them in my teens.)

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Wow... so imagine how liberated you could be if the two were somehow mixed.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I think I need help imagining this.
Diagrams please...

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Yep I think she's got a point.

Tomorrow I will possess your Iphone with podcasts about Steven Seagal and Daniel O'Donnell ;-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! I shall look forward to that :-)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Apparently they're getting together to make a film - oh how I wish that could be true but what is true is Mr Seagal's latest film stars Lindsay 'no discernible acting talent but all too evident addictive and spoilt personality' Lohan as a kind of nun with a gun fetish. It's called Machete apparently and I can't wait :-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I think I saw a trailer for that ;-)