Washing machines: threat or menace?

[james_davis_nicoll]

[It] began to occur to me that the tech I was using was incredibly gendered. In the "male" sphere, of professional operations, offices, corporations, pop culture, businesses, the available technology was extremely high-level, better than anywhere I'd yet lived. In the "female" sphere, the home, domestic duties, daily chores, cleaning, heating, anything inside the walls of a house, it was on a level my grandmother would find familiar.

I had similar thoughts a while ago, which led to this.

Engines of Liberation by Jeremy Greenwood, Ananth Seshadri and Mehmet Yorukoglu1

I forgot the question I was going to ask: given the effect devices like washing machines arguably have on the ability of women to do stuff that isn't maintaining a household, why is the people currently waging war on women's reproductive rights have not gone after dish washers, vaccuum cleaners and washer/driers?

Comments

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I would like "safety" switches on power tools and other items coded male which are not actually "you must have hands of a certain arbitrary size to use this item".

I would also like a pony with a speckled nose.