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Again, they're not called that though, are they? Whatever I call them, they'll still be widely known as "plantation", explicitly named after the exact type of plantation that was just described above. For that reason, I'm out. I've not said to boycott shutter suppliers, I've not told anyone here they shouldn't have them.
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I'm with you. I can't deal with the name. I also don't like the things anyway, I don't think they suit the climate or the architecture but I know plenty of people do.
But also - when did they become 'plantation shutters'? Maybe I'm behind the times but I don't think I heard it until about 2 years ago. Before that I would've just called them louvred shutters or slatted shutters. So that just makes the trend for them, and calling them plantation shutters, worse for me. -
Again, they're not called that though, are they? Whatever I call them, they'll still be widely known as "plantation", explicitly named after the exact type of plantation that was just described above. For that reason, I'm out. I've not said to boycott shutter suppliers, I've not told anyone here they shouldn't have them.
I still find it amusing how much store people put in a name. If underpants became known as Fascist Pants, would you stop wearing them? After all, members of various Fascist parties wore underpants, I'm sure. I can't imagine they all went commando. There's a definite historical connection there.
I'm not suggesting that lighting a burning cross in your front garden every evening and repainting the house with a Confederate flag is a particularly acceptable concept. But for anyone to find fitting slatted wooden shutters a political statement seems laughably superficial.
I'm really not having a go at you personally. I genuinely find it difficult to see how fitting wooden slatted shutters can be seen as an ethically difficult or questionable decision, and I'm intrigued, if slightly bewildered, to see how anyone could. Not that I've got any. Net curtains for the win.
Enlighten me. Given that wooden slatted shutters have been used well before American plantation owners fitted them, much in the same way as other functional things like roofs, doors and windows have been fitted by all and sundry, what makes wooden slatted shutters so distinctly objectionable? As opposed to roofs, doors and windows? Something of substance, or just the name?
hoefla
Brommers
they're based on the Ancient Greek marble design. so call them Ancient Greek Shutters... but they owned slaves too...