Politics and Clotheslines  Late 19th century advertisement for
laundry st...  Late 19th century advertisement for laundry
starch manufactured by Gilbert S. Graves in Buffalo, New York,
showing two women hanging laundry on a clothesline. 1 print :
lithograph, color. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)  Line-drying your
clothes seems to have become a political issue. I’ve concluded
this because 1) The Huffington Post, a liberal website, reposted
a blog with instructions for using a clothesline; 2) I, a
liberal Democrat, hang my laundry outside; and 3) Were she
alive, my mother, who was a Republican, would probably refuse to
do the same.  So why is The Huffington Post promoting
clotheslines? Maybe male liberals are more likely to share
household responsibilities, and, being untrained in traditional
women’s work, need guidance in maneuvering clothespins. Or, if
liberal women are spoiled elitists, as some conservatives claim,
a reliance on dryers may have stymied the hand-eye coordination
essential for hanging up clothes. I