RonPurewal Wrote:That's not what "incompatible" means.
"Incompatible" means that two things CAN'T occur together.
If the domesticity thing were incompatible with social activism, then women who subscribed to the idea of domesticity would be unable to participate.
What the author describes as "ironic" is precisely the fact that these two things WERE compatible!
I.e., from a simplistic perspective, one might think that "domesticity" would be incompatible with political involvement (since political involvement occurs mostly outside the home). The situation is ironic because, as the author points out, that simplistic perspective is wrong.
Hi Ron - your post suggests the word "Ironic" actually means female domesticity is compatible with social activism
When i read the word "ironic" -- i thought of
female domesticity and
female benevolence as two separate circles in a Venn diagram with zero overlap what so ever.
Thus i chose option B because i thought there was no overlap between
female domesticity &
female domesticity Answer C seems to suggest female domesticity = female benevolence + chance to enter politics
Is my understanding of why C is the answer accurate