Little girls - and their apparently incessant and unquenchable thirst for fripperies (dolls, pencils, ribbons, whatever) - are one of capitalism's oldest scapegoats, going back at least to the late eighteenth century. Then, the need for transatlantic slavery and the commodities it produced were sometimes blamed on little girls - THEIR desires, THEIR impetuousness, intemperance and implacability, THEIR greedy little need to be catered to and ornamented were often cited as the reason why the slave system persisted. Joseph Wright of Derby's artistic oeuvre plays with the paradigms of early capitalism and contains several allusions to the 'role' of little girls within it: see 'A Conversation of Girls' (1770, https://wikioo.org/paintings.php?refarticle=8BWLMY&artistname=Joseph+Wright+Of+Derby) and 'Two Girls Dressing a Kitten by Candlelight' (c.1768-70, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Girls_Dressing_a_Kitten_by_Candlelight).
Of course, tfg knows absolutely f-all about any of that, except that he's internalized it along with the rest of us. And just spouts it straight from the source, no mind engaged whatsoever.
I’m glad someone else picked up on the misogyny of the “thirty dolls” remark. Not toy soldiers or trucks, but dolls. I also think we could capitalize on the number. Nobody I know gets thirty of anything for Christmas, but I don’t run in Trump’s circle.
Little girls - and their apparently incessant and unquenchable thirst for fripperies (dolls, pencils, ribbons, whatever) - are one of capitalism's oldest scapegoats, going back at least to the late eighteenth century. Then, the need for transatlantic slavery and the commodities it produced were sometimes blamed on little girls - THEIR desires, THEIR impetuousness, intemperance and implacability, THEIR greedy little need to be catered to and ornamented were often cited as the reason why the slave system persisted. Joseph Wright of Derby's artistic oeuvre plays with the paradigms of early capitalism and contains several allusions to the 'role' of little girls within it: see 'A Conversation of Girls' (1770, https://wikioo.org/paintings.php?refarticle=8BWLMY&artistname=Joseph+Wright+Of+Derby) and 'Two Girls Dressing a Kitten by Candlelight' (c.1768-70, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Girls_Dressing_a_Kitten_by_Candlelight).
Of course, tfg knows absolutely f-all about any of that, except that he's internalized it along with the rest of us. And just spouts it straight from the source, no mind engaged whatsoever.
Like the horse in Animal Farm, with her ribbons! So perhaps “feminine frippery “ has been a common scapegoat beyond capitalism…
Thanks for making that connection! You’ve made me 🤔.
Yep - it's always women's fault. 'Look what you made me do...'
I’m glad someone else picked up on the misogyny of the “thirty dolls” remark. Not toy soldiers or trucks, but dolls. I also think we could capitalize on the number. Nobody I know gets thirty of anything for Christmas, but I don’t run in Trump’s circle.
Yes, he knows the crisis is coming...more importantly, he's completely demented. That's the harsher reality.
And he still wants to bop his daughter.
I know I'm gonna need more sex toys. Wait what kind of dolls are we talking about?