Comment on Rough time to be a woman. ☕

• homes@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, the 1800s… When it was perfectly legal to put newborn babies to work in the coal-mining sweat shops of South London

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  • sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kids as young as 4 years old would be put to work, so it’s not that far off really.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not just legal but encouraged.

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    • homes@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Encouraged by all the starvation and pestilence

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They yearn for the mines after all

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think it reminds them of the womb.

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