Clarissa's Blog

In Motherland, Julia Ioffe tries to make the case that Soviet women were worse off than Soviet men because they did more housework.

The pesky fact that Soviet men were often unavailable to do housework because the regime murdered them at an enormously higher rate than women doesn’t seem to influence her argument. I’m on Chapter 30 out of 44, and in spite of Ioffe’s last name, I’m beginning to wonder if she’s not very smart. She’s recreating the meme “Men genocided. Women most impacted”, and doesn’t notice the weirdness of her harping on the housework when discussing Soviet genocide.