![]() ![]() ![]() Or Chukwuemeka Afigbo, the Nigerian man who discovered an automatic hand-soap dispenser that released soap perfectly whenever his white friend placed their hand under the machine, but refused to acknowledge his darker skin. Just ask the residents of Scunthorpe in the north of England, who were blocked from opening AOL accounts after the internet giant created a new profanity filter that objected to the name of their town. ![]() ![]() They were designed to make it easier to create complicated textiles, but in the end, the impact they had on wages, unemployment and working conditions made them arguably more tyrannical than any Victorian capitalist. Sometimes it’s an unintended consequence, like the mechanized weaving machines of the nineteenth century. Sometimes it’s deliberately and maliciously factored into their design, but at other times it’s a result of thoughtless omissions: just think of the lack of wheelchair access in some urban areas. History is littered with examples of objects and inventions with a power beyond their professed purpose. Racist bridges aren’t the only inanimate objects that have had a quiet, clandestine control over people. ![]()
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She adds, “In a way, she was Finland’s first feminist.”Ĭanth’s legacy has inspired generations of feminist writing in Finland. ![]() Rytisalo tells me that the Me Too movement is prompting “exactly the kinds of conversations that Minna Canth would have wanted us to have.” ![]() “Establishing a right doesn’t guarantee forever.” “Rights are never written in stone,” Rytisalo says. “She believed that girls should have the right to an education…to learn about things like science, nature and the economy,” says Rytisalo, who teaches Finnish language and literature at the upper secondary (high school) level.Īlthough Finland has taken huge steps towards achieving gender equality since Canth’s time, her writing remains relevant. “In many ways was ahead of her time,” says Minna Rytisalo, author of Rouva C (“Mrs C,” published by Gummerus in 2018), a fictionalised account of Canth’s marriage to her former teacher, Johan Ferdinand Canth (1835–79). Author and teacher Minna Rytisalo cautions that “establishing a right doesn’t guarantee it forever,” and says that we can all learn from Minna Canth’s attitude. ![]() ![]() Nora does give birth to a daughter, and concentrates on raising her as she comes across photographs that Lee has taken in magazines. Oh, and by the way, Nora has just discovered she was pregnant. Nora and Lee’s friendship isn’t always easy-especially when Nora discovers that Lee has slept with her man, Jamie. ![]() They all become friends, but it seems Lee has still not gotten over what happened to her as a child. When Nora runs into Lee in Paris with her boyfriend Jamie years later, Lee is a mistress of a photographer named Man Ray (the name made me giggle and think of a character from Spongebob Squarepants.) Lee is a model, but soon turns into a photographer. ![]() If someone had hurt her like that, they wouldn’t be around. (This part was tough to read as I have a seven year old daughter. 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