I was on the train today and I saw a lady studiously looking through various pieces of paper. She was all focused on the task at hand, and it intrigued me. And I realized she was looking for a maid.
The pieces of paper had things like height and weight and colour description (light or tanned or dark, I think I saw). It also had things like “What I can do” and “What I want to say to my prospective employer”, where the maid writes down things like “I can cook and look after kids and clean…”
I did not realise that this is part of the process of looking for a maid. Like looking through their CVs.
And suddenly I’m appalled. Since when have we earned the right to own other human beings?
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