Men see household objects as instruments while domestic order is women’s specific concern.

Evidence

Regardless, foregrounding the property that otherwise remains in the background is, perhaps, the most overt entry point into the factory that is influencer culture and how domesticity, when community is subsumed by capital, becomes an alibi for conflating person with property. What we will see, in foregrounding the home, is both the elaborate ownership of production involved in the daily life of an influencer and how the influencer and their home—person and property—have been sutured to assume a coherence between the two. We are not inherently engaging in the pleasure of watching another person and the private intimacy of their body in spaces inaccessible without mediated vision. Rather, we are engaging in the spectacle of consuming images of private property, images of things that have become interchangeable with personhood. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 124 (#expands, via linked claim)

I used to get annoyed in abstract discussions to hear men tell me: “You think such and such a thing because you’re a woman.” But I know my only defense is to answer, “I think it because it is true,” thereby eliminating my subjectivity; it was out of the question to answer, “And you think the contrary because you are a man,” because it is understood that being a man is not a particularity; a man is in his right by virtue of being man; it is the woman who is in the wrong. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 53 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Domesticity is an alibi for conflating person with property — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 124; Gender categories divide humans into female objects and male subjects; Woman’s cultural role is to soften the harsh edges of male-created law and necessity — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 396 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Gender categories divide humans into female objects and male subjects #expands (0.78)
• Domesticity is an alibi for conflating person with property #expands (0.75) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 124
• Men’s perspective passes as neutral truth while women’s is read as gendered #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 53
• Woman’s cultural role is to soften the harsh edges of male-created law and necessity #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 396
• The institution of inheritance causally produced woman’s subordination to man’s property #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 182