Reuters is currently circulating an article about women drivers in Russia entitled “Women are in the driving seat”. In the article a Russian motoring writer points out that:
“15 to 25 years ago there were no female drivers in Russia…There was only one car in the family and that belonged to the husband, the brother, or the father and they did all the driving”.
Today there are around two million women drivers in Russia and the number of women taking to the wheel is growing rapidly.
Now according to contemporary feminists, female emancipation has been due to the tireless efforts of women’s rights advocates. However, for over 80 years Russian society was ruled according to an aggressive egalitarian ideology called communism. Anyone who has read a few chapters of Karl Marx’s writing will know emancipation is a big part of Marxist ideology. A woman, according to Marx, can’t be a “species- being” until she is emancipated from domestic drudgery.
What’s happening in Russia certainly casts a few doubts on the notion that political activism has been the main reason for changing attitudes to women. It seems that male technology has also played a big part in liberating women from “repression and drudgery”.
This finding fits in nicely with Patrick Buchanan’s controversial statement:
”The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise makers; they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping centre, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer”.
How about a feminist cheer for the male engineer?
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