The Masses
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''"Yet woman is the cheapest commodity on the market. You can buy ten women for the price of a good ruby."' | ''"Yet woman is the cheapest commodity on the market. You can buy ten women for the price of a good ruby."' | ||
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The Masses held a critical view on the status of women in culture. | The Masses held a critical view on the status of women in culture. | ||
| − | ''"What is the matter with a world that searches land and sea for a new jewel yet stands calmly by while women sell their lives to a machine and sell them for only enough to buy food and bed?"'' | + | ''"From these women will come the race of the future. According to their health and strength will be the health and strength of the next generation. Common sense ought to help us see that even if we lack the imagination to see in the degradation of women the degradation of the whole race."'' |
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| + | Challenging the societal view on women, Fischer asks a series of questions to the public in his article that questions the view on women: | ||
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| + | #Are women really seen as equal in society? ''"To be a woman in a modern capitalist society means to be the cheapest commodity on the market."'' | ||
| + | #Is the life of a person in general really worth what we make of it? ''"A jewel is a fine thing, but so far, as a jewel serves no practical purpose, one human life is worth all the jewels of the world."'' | ||
| + | #''"What is the matter with a world that searches land and sea for a new jewel yet stands calmly by while women sell their lives to a machine and sell them for only enough to buy food and bed?"'' | ||
| + | #''" Are will going to be | ||
===Vol. 9 No. 8=== | ===Vol. 9 No. 8=== | ||
