"Even when he was working as a teacher by day and writing the manuscript for Carrie at night, he was still a straight white dude living in the United States during the early ‘70s with a wife to take care of him and their children"
When I was studying Descartes back in college, I thought, where did this guy find the time to sit in an oven and come up with cartesian philosophy? And I've been saying for years, decades, possibly (this was back in the 90s), all these guys weren't washing their own clothes, cleaning their own houses or cooking their own food! They had wives and/or servants. Of course they had time. And this totally explains how few women philosophers they were competing with.
"Even when he was working as a teacher by day and writing the manuscript for Carrie at night, he was still a straight white dude living in the United States during the early ‘70s with a wife to take care of him and their children"
When I was studying Descartes back in college, I thought, where did this guy find the time to sit in an oven and come up with cartesian philosophy? And I've been saying for years, decades, possibly (this was back in the 90s), all these guys weren't washing their own clothes, cleaning their own houses or cooking their own food! They had wives and/or servants. Of course they had time. And this totally explains how few women philosophers they were competing with.
congrats on your thing in xtra, it's delightful!