A friend mentioned a radical French philosopher who wrote between the first and second world wars that without the nuclear family ideal of stay at home wives, the military industrial complex could not survive. You need to keep the women out of the work force as a kind of back-up force for when you send all the men off to die.

Which makes sense. Think of Rosie the Riveter. Think of who it is that most wants the nuclear ideal to be an iron clad law of how families should be constructed. These are the same people who think we should be in Iraq for 100 years.

But I have no freakin idea what the name of the philosopher was and googling is not helping. Anyone wanna help a girl out?

UPDATE: So it’s actually a novel called La Garconne by Victor Margueritte, and so far I have not been able to find an English translation. BAHHHHHHHHHHHHH