THE woman who supposedly was the model for the iconic World War II poster of “Rosie the Riveter” has died. The New York Times honors her contribution to the nation with an obituary. The Anti-New York Times responds here.

While Rosie is commonly portrayed as a symbol of women’s emancipation, she represents the opposite. She stands for the dawning of an era — after the initial postwar return to tradition — in which millions of women would be forced due to economic necessity to enter the paid workforce. Feminists romanticized their loss of status at home as “liberation.” The Rosie poster is a classic work of Soviet-style agitprop. The home stands between the people and the Omnipotent State.

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Pan Dora writes:

A woman who actually wanted to rivet something? Manufacturing these days would be delighted. You have a woman electrician who actually wants to run wires? Feel free to send her to my house. Send me a bunch of women HVAC techs that can correctly install the system the men did a horrible job on a few years back (not just my opinion, the opinion of the senior instructor in the technical high school my children attended.) Modern feminism claims to want equal work for equal pay, but how often do you see them encouraging women to clean out septic systems? The pay isn’t bad for an incredibly nasty job. Nope, everyone wants to be a nicely dressed executive in a fancy office.

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