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There's Equality, and Then There's Equality

"...Without men like them, we would have nothing; nothing to eat, no metal for our cars, no bricks, no stone, no wooden planks, no houses, no roads, no public buildings, no clean running water, nothing.  They do work that is more than desirable.  It is absolutely necessary.  I teach English poetry; that is not necessary.  I will not trouble to discuss sociology, feminist or otherwise."

Fishermen Hauling the Net on Skagen's North Beach, by Peder Severin Kroyer