You've Come a Long Way Down, Baby: The Tao of Housework

There is an ongoing discussing on the comments thread of this piece You’ve Come a Long Way Down Baby! which I should like, for purposes of legibility, to move to its own topic.

For those of us who came in late, the beginnings of the debate was this:

The original post reprinted this panel from a comic, which, I submit, and no one has denied, the average modern reader finds mildly or acutely embarrassing (and the modern feminist reader finds outrageous and blasphemous) because it portrays a superhuman girl as a girl who does housework when not engaged in world-saving, a girl who voices no shame over this stereotypical feminine role.

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