Just imagine. The entire modern economy, pretty much anywhere, but certainly in any “Western” nation, is now based on the idea that everyone male and female, works full time…
Universities have become wholly female-dominated. So have many, many professional fields. Most workplaces cater to the wants of middle-class women. So does most government messaging. So does the entire “field” of HR and recruiting…
At the same time, birth rates are crashing to totally unsustainable levels. Children aren’t raised properly at all, and are shipped off to “childcare” or to older relatives, as early as possible. Parents no longer no, or care, how to raise kids.
Cook for your family? Congrats, you’re an outlier. Most people seem to view cooking as some sort of “luxury”, and instead base most meals on either frozen shit, or takeaway and deliver, depending on their background…
Marriage is broken, and hell, most millennials don’t even bother with it. Divorces are higher than ever, and many couples barely even see, or talk to, each other, let alone their kids, anymore. So many kids are from broken homes, now, whatever their background or race…
Yet jobs are still flying offshore (never mind automation. It’s not there yet), and immigrants are still piling in to every Western country, partly to keep the birth rates up, and partly to keep house prices and rents ever increasing… Oh, and to push wages down, of course.
This, despite more “locals” working than ever before. This, despite women demanding ever more catering to from corporate, and all of the “equity” bullshit…
There’s no way any of this is sustainable, and yet it is everywhere… In every single “developed” country.
Some people here like to talk about Russia, but christ, look at their birth rates. Look at China, too. It’s not just “American allies and adjacents” that this is affecting. It’s almost everywhere, with a few very notable exceptions…
Amazing to think that “women's rights” and runaway corporatism, plus unlimited contraceptives (arguably) may be what dooms us, let alone all the trans kids raised on hormones shit…
I would say that maybe some parts of humanity can still correct this ship, but I’m not so sure anymore…
I doubt even in 1980 people would have thought that fucking Nigeria and India would inherit the Earth, but here we are…
/rant
It's worse than you think. The doubling of the workforce didn't lead to doubling of productivity and by extension the lowering of prices. The women who entered the workforce created new departments like HR and compliance. The doubling of the workforce lead to a doubling (at least) of red tape. You can't do anything without at least 3 other people involved checking it and signing off on it. The number of people in a major company that actually do anything productive is so painfully low.
Totally agreed.
Shivers in “emotional well-being” as a category of WH&S…
Yeah, shit’s fucked.
Arguably some of these departments may have a use but the other problem too is that women are not as good at the productive job but rather than admit that women lobbied to get corporations to lower their standards and make performance less of a factor in promoting or compensation. Men who could be far more productive choose not to be because they see everyone else getting the same salary as them. The incentive structure just isn't there anymore thanks to women.
The presence of women also actively lowers productivity. I see it every day in my office. Women come over to my coworker's desk and stand around giggling for hours at a time, getting nothing done and preventing my coworker and myself from actually working on anything.
Supreme missive from the 'boozler.
As an ~older woman who has seen 50 years of feminism run off the rails ... something deep got hijacked from women and they were told they were more liberated without it. Who doesn't want to be liberated?
It coincides with the decline of the Christian church if you ask me.
Yeah, I think that’s part of it, indeed…
That and the idea of “nuclear families” in general being rapidly lost in that timeframe, but that may be a “chicken and egg” thing…
It is interesting, in a sense, that there is no real “predictable commonality” across countries in this regard.
Like, Italy, Spain and Poland are all very Catholic, but only one of the three is yet to fall into a demographic abyss… Meanwhile Malta, despite high emigration, manages to not be quite so screwed, because it is more Catholic than Rome…
And then Poland contrasts with most post-Communist states, too, probably 90% of which are also more immediately demographically screwed…
Only Poland and Hungary seem to be bucking that trend (in Europe)…
Dunno. I have no solutions, only observations…
Hopefully this isn’t the last thing I manage to post. 🤷🏻♂️
Catholic people are the minority, regardless of baptism statistics. People don't live like Catholics.
"nuclear families" were in fact a degenerated version of the extended families and regional connections that used to be the basis of culture. America was an outlier, since the european stock all immigrated here, but going back further good breeding and family reputations mattered.
The atomization allowed by industrial society (and encouraged by communists) has had disastrous consequences.
#UncleTedTalk
Good breeding was already degenerated and most of the "good" breed were retarded nitwits
The way I see it, feminism was the reproachful cry of women demanding to be able to sink as low as men always have. Classically, men would get drunk and go to brothels leaving their wives with no recourse. I'm not blaming men for women's actions, I'm just explaining how we got here. No women would've cared to get the vote if their husbands were decent. Think about it: Can anyone imagine a worse situation than to be subject to the good graces of men?
I do agree that all societal issues stem from abandoning God.
This is a much needed observation. Before 2nd wave feminism kicked into gear, the sexual revolution/free love era could be great for the average man. You could get with the girls you wanted and ditch them, and being male, you carry less emotional baggage. Pregnancy? Abort post-Roe or just go deadbeat. If you were ready to settle down, you could own a house on a factory operator salary thanks to wages carrying much more value.
Women themselves were clearly tougher in the 60s-70s than today, but we are facing today's issues because this state of affairs just can't continue. One sex can't have carte blanche to lay pipe as long as they want while the other sex either gets pregnant or turns into an unfulfilled whore. The damage to pair bonding also impacts men just as much as women, leading to the catastrophic divorce rate, leading to a plague of broken kids raised by single mothers and trooning out.
The rules of chastity are ordained by God and sadly, we are finding out over decades what happens when you break those rules.
Well said.
I can. How about being subject to the good graces of women like any man who got married or had kids? There are a million different ways for spiteful whores to game the family courts and zero protections for men.
Men weren't decent because the women weren't decent. Women treated their husbands like shit and men drank themselves to death because of how shit their life was being forced to stay married to a fat cow that nagged them nonstop.
The fault of our problems are about 90% women and 10% men.
You’ve just made up a bunch of unfalsifiable nonsense here.
Just like the guy I was replying to.
I'm not a fan of the passive language from the right when it comes to this issue. I don't believe women "were convinced" by some malicious evil force that traditional feminine roles were a bad thing. I believe that choice of language deflects too much responsibility away from women themselves. The material opulence of our society played on the materialism and hypergamy that is inherent to women's psychology and caused many if not most women to abandon traditional roles in favour of a fantasy where they could "have it all.". Feminism is not the cause of that: it's just a word we use for the result. Feminism, as Karen Straughan and Alison Tieman used to say, is just the weaponization of female nature.
Especially children
Child soldiers are prized by warlords precisely because of their cruelty.
It’s just that traditional feminine roles are…fucking BRUTAL, son. BRUTAL. 24 hours a day, all day, every day, with no rest, no relaxation, sleep deprivation…it’s fucking intense. For example…your son is almost two and he’s started having night terrors, as most do at this age. He’s currently sharing a room with your 3 year old, so when the two year old wakes up screaming at 2:37am, this means the 3 year old wakes up, as well. You finally get them both back to sleep around 4am, and you just bring the 2 year old to bed with you. Your husband is snoring, so you have trouble going back to sleep, and the two year old kicks soooo much. You drift off around 6, and the 45 mins of sleep you get is worse then nothing because when the 3 year old wakes you up at 7, your eyes feel like they’re being dragged into shreds by sandpaper eyelids. This has been going on for a little over 3 years now. Your Fit-Watch has you at an average of 4 hours of sleep per night, and your sleep score is 32. It’s been this way for 3 years. Nonetheless! You start pounding coffee while you dress the 3 year old. The morning begins with a fight. He wants to wear the puppy shirt. The baby vomited on the puppy shirt yesterday, though. Ok! Redirect! “Oh, the puppies are still sleeping and they’re so yucky…they’re taking a morning bath! Let’s pick…how about the DINOSAUR shirt, or the BASEBALL shirt?” The 3 year old’s lip begins to quiver. “Puuuuupppppies!!!!” “HEY BUDDY, will you please wear me today? I miss you and I want to go out!” You make the dinosaur shirt talk and plead. Just as the 3 year old begins to slowly smile, you hear a cry from the other room. Fuck fuck fuck. You run to get the baby before he wakes up your husband. Unfortunately, the 3 year old begins to sob because his dinosaur shirt abruptly stopped speaking. You’re so tired you see the floor dip and you almost fall while stumbling in the early morning light to go get the baby. This is the first 10 minutes of your day. Wait until they start fighting because one didn’t high five the snowman. This is all day, every day, non stop, 24/7. It’s just that working is so, so, so, so much fucking easier. You get lunch breaks and bathroom breaks and you can talk to adults. You are taking the kids to the slides today. You have to make breakfast so you have the 3 year old “help,” but when you turn around after beating the eggs, he’s removes ALL of the pots and pans instead of the pan and spatula you gave him. Now the kitchen floor is strewn with pots and pans. The two year old has started yelling “AD!AD!” At the top of his lungs because the shapes cartoon has been interrupted by a commercial. Your husband comes down to a floor strewn with pots and pans and the youngest screaming. You’re eyes burn. Take a sip of coffee. Start singing and putting back the pots and pans while telling the 3 year old that we’re only using ONE pan for the omelette. The two year old is still pissed about the ad. After breakfast, you need to bathe the two year old because he’s covered with omelette. Now you have dishes. “Bye!” Says your husband, and holy shit…you feel soooooo jealous. I’m on my phone for the FIRST time all day and it’s now 9:45 AT NIGHT. I can assume I have about one hour to chill before one or the other wakes up. That’s it. I need to get off my phone soon, because now…laundry awaits. There is NO off time. My husband, however, has been chilling after dinner for the last several hours. Why? He works. Me? No, I don’t “work.” See why women bail on this? I won’t because I care about my legacy but some days I want to just lay down and go the mother fuck to sleep.
Women need religion. If there isn't one imposed on them by their parents and community when they are young, then they will find one to join. The religion of modernity is gay communism so that is what most women end up falling into.
They have to be in a framework that dictates their behavior or they go crazy, like a herd animal that is by itself.
Japan has had an average birth rate per one person of less than 1 for decades.
It is the safest and most civilized country in the world.
I don’t agree with the need to have exponential growth or replace the next generation with immigrants.
Supposedly the hypergamy of educated Japanese women is just as bad or even worse than the US, leading to the typical hordes of careerist spinsters.
Most women I know of my approximate age and younger are highly educated (generally Masters or two undergrads), high-income, at least near parity with their partner…
Or they’re single, and as you say, won’t “date down” (so zero chance for me, lol)…
Pretty much none are less independently “successful” than their respective partners or exes…
It’s all rather an inversion of some aspects of how this all used to work, but at the same time they still want to find someone more successful…
It’s unsustainable, imho…
I think that very example will soon cause a backlash in the younger generations, if it isn't already happening.
Women were sold the idea of "having it all" in the 80s; fulfilling career, loving husband, state-raised kids. But now we've had a chance to look at the result and it's far from the pie in the sky.
Divorce rates jumped. Birth rates plunged. As another poster mentioned, a huge percentage of women now need anti-anxiety meds just to function; they aren't even happier.
We had never tried this before so who could have said, with evidence, "This won't work"?
Now we can, and the younger generations are waking up.
Gen Z males are already waking up. They're not as visible as the soy suckers and legbeards because the media doesn't want them to be, but they're the ones who flocked to Andrew Tate in droves. The women of that generation are as horrible as ever unfortunately. I also don't have much hope for Gen alpha women barring a massive external shock. It's not like women of previous generations shaped up in response to the cultural rot. The men have to wake up because they're the ones who will suffer the consequences if they don't. I feel like millennials were the first to notice how fucked up things are but only a small fringe were serious about dealing with the problem. It's more mainstream with Gen Z, but plenty of those guys are still fucked up from the nonsense. I think that Gen alpha men are going to be the ones with the ability to fix shit when they come of age. Either that or they'll just go MGTOW en mass. That will mostly depend on whether women shape up.
There's also the problem that if you don't produce any young people, you end up with a top-heavy age pyramid of elderly who need looking after by someone...
Unless you want the "welfare state" to collapse, which Japan obviously does not.
So this problem becomes extremely significant even before societal collapse and "going extinct" becomes a real possibility...
As you say, Japan is stable now, but in a few decades? Children of Men has pretty much already shown us one possible outcome...
Eat the Old, lol
World wide birthrates will eventually fall below replacement. The pyramid scheme is going to end sooner or later.
It's just not as simple as that, though... See below.
Now ≠ how the situation will be in 20 years time.
The National Conservatism Conference in UK is currently battering this specific topic pretty hard.
My only problem is how they rail against Thatcher and free markets, never once seeming to grasp that despite Thatcher's personal comments, she instituted nothing even close to economic liberalism, but instead introduced something close to what we currently recognize as the "East Asian Model of Communism" by creating Free Economic Zones within an already fully Socialist Britain. She didn't even deregulate the economy to the point that Chile would have been familiar with under Pinochet & his Chicago-School economic system. She did not "fetishize" the free-market, she simply liberalized an already Socialist Britain to a minor degree.
Pinochet is more economically Liberal than Thatcher. That's how far to the Left the UK has been.
It's fucking annoying that nobody in England seems to be able to see this. You can tell how retarded their concept of Libertarianism is considering the claims that the Lockdowns were Libertarian.
And don't get me started on the fucking idiocy of Phillips' comment that the British Civil Service was politicized only after Thatcher. You don't think the Civil Service has been a den of Leftist praxiology for over 100 years? I do. The US Stated Department was founded by Fabian Socialists. The Fabian Society was founded... in England. What do you fucking think they did?
Sounds like Thatcher and Reagan had a lot in common. None of it good.
They do. They were two of the major figures in the advancement in neoliberalism.
Thatcher didn't destroy the UK's white working class (which would have just been the working class of the UK). That working class destroyed itself with Leftist policies. You vote for Leftist protectionism, you will inevitably face the same end result: utter destruction because of a failure to keep up with anyone or anything else.
It happened here in the US too. Protectionism didn't save places like Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Unlike Wales and Scotland, Ohio and most of Pennsylvania figured out that Leftist protectionism is a honey-trap.
Drugs don't help.
I'm not referring to hard drugs, no - but stuff like anti-anxiety pills and the like? Chances are, if you're in a corporate environment and you've got women working in your office at any level, they're on drugs.
Women can only operate in the 'modern' world when they're high on meds.
I mean "modern" women are on drugs in general. The last number I saw that categorized how much of the female population that was on some kind of medication was staggering. Like there's even research now that just their birth control has a wild effect on them and can effect their mood, decision making, and even who they're attracted to.
There was a fairly in-depth video on youtube I watched a while ago that went into a pretty deep dive on exactly what birth control does to a woman's body.
My overall reaction was along the lines of 'What the flying fuck. You couldn't pay me to take this shit, and people do so on the regular? What the fuck.'
Yeah - I get there are women who take it due to reasonable medical reasons and moderate thier bodies hormones, but still. What the flying fuck.
a family = you are building something. being a worker = building something for someone else.
It was a con from the very start. Not even kidding. It was never about 'women's rights.' I'm not sure how much each contributed, but it was about destroying the family, destroying wages and raising cost of living, and general greed about the aforementioned lower wages.
It was never meant to help women, or make them more equal. It was an attack, a coup.
I agree.
Especially when so many jobs (SaaS, mostly, for example) don’t really produce anything of value…
We’ve invented whole industries of bullshit work, just to keep people slaving away, to afford stupid shit that they don’t really need anyway…
Then again, rents in Australia in anywhere with work, and indeed house prices, are so patently absurd it’s no wonder people feel they need to “work hard and get every qualification possible to rise above the pack!”
Like, in Sydney for example, to afford a rental with a reasonable commute to where I would be working (say 1 - 1.5 hrs), I would be looking at… Something like 40% of weekly earnings, minimum, purely on rent… And that’s only in a “good” paying job. Which I probably wouldn’t get anyway.
It’s obscene. The whole thing is obscene.
I'm just gonna leave this here... https://web.archive.org/web/20180807024932/http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
I'm pretty sure Graeber is some kind of socialist- he proposes universal basic income as a solution in the book he wrote based on this article. While I don't agree with his proposed solutions, I think he nails the description of this phenomenon.
Yeah. I agree. That’s partly what I was referring to (Graeber’s thesis).
The problem is that these jobs even exist in the first place, and that people end up doing them…
Like, UBI wouldn’t solve that phenom - they would just import more immigrants to do the dumb pointless jobs anyway…
We literally already see that as it is, lol.
Having said all that…
Who the fuck cares what I think? I don’t matter. My opinions don’t matter. I’m no one. I honestly don’t believe that I will ever “amount to” anything, now.
I’m literally days away from just… Finally throwing it in. I’ve already “given up”.
So… Fuck it. None of the bullshit I think has any impact on the real world. It’s just random “sperging”.
In the end we’re all pretty powerless, but at least some of you might have some people in your life who you can influence, or positions where you can change something.
I’m just… No one. And I’m done.
Which is fine, by the way. Honestly wish I had already done it.
But oh well. Bitching here does nothing. I freely admit that.
Im just tying up loose ends, and making sure things are in place. Then? Well, hopefully there’s peace somewhere. Or, if not, and Catholicism is right? Well, that’s alright too.
Peace out. ✌🏻
I care what you think. We are not powerless, and you do have an impact on the real world, and you should not be throwing anything in.
In fact, the most important thing that you can do is resist the demoralization by focusing on improving yourself through small, disciplined, effort; saving your money; and embracing emotional fitness. There is, in fact, no greater imperative.
Consider this loose end intentionally untied.
Hope you don't end up going down that road, man
Yes. Giving up on society doesn't mean giving up on yourself.
I'm firmly convinced that society today is measurably worse than society 50 years ago, and it's only going to get worse still in the future. That being said, there's plenty of things that don't suck to keep you occupied for a lifetime. Focus on your fitness, read books about history and philosophy, enjoy the films and art that interests you.
The vast majority of people leave this world only remembered by their friends and immediate family. Within a generation nobody even knows they existed. But does that really matter? If they lived happy and fulfilling lives do they need to leave a lasting mark on the world?
I’ve always struggled with your last question…
I think that comes from having a fucked-up upbringing, unfortunately…
But I couldn’t live with that reality, I don’t think.
Then again, if I had a loving wife and kids, I could be happy. But that’s… That feels impossibly hard, at this point.
It’s really hard to explain, but I just… That really doesn’t feel possible, at the moment. Which is… Well it adds to the pain, let’s say.
And that’s despite me being a fairly charismatic (perhaps Borderline, idk) extrovert…
People pretend to love me, but then when you need them? None of them are ever there…
I don’t know. I just… Don’t know.
I said this in a group the other day: the most important thing is to feel valued; to feel that you matter. Whether that be to one person, or to many.
Without that… I personally cannot see the will to go on.
Which is, of course, entirely a matter of perspective, but… That’s how I see the world.
I used to try and be “valued” by volunteering for all these different organizations. They just chewed me up and spat me out. I don’t think I could ever go back to that. So…
Yeah, maybe I’m just a Borderline. Who fucking knows.
I would just love for something to “go my way” for once, though, you know? Because that just doesn’t seem to happen…
I definitely understand feeling exploited. I've spent an entire career excelling only to see the same people who we're asking me for help with their projects yesterday promoted past me today because they're female, or minority, or the boss hangs out with them on the weekends.
The trick is to only give what you need to. I've heard the phrase "if you're a giver, you have to know your limits, because the takers don't have any" and it's true. I no longer volunteer for projects or try and improve my workplace, because I know I'll get nothing in return. But, as others have said, work is simply a vehicle to obtain money. As long as they pay me what I want, I'll stick around. I just won't hinge my self esteem on what they think of me.
I would caution you against thinking that a family would solve your problems. Once you're comfortable with yourself without external validation, things seem to fall into place- that may include a family, or it may not. Everything the MGTOW group says about women is true; you will likely find new levels of exploitation and mental abuse if you cohabitate with a woman.
The trick is getting beyond trying to find self-actualization from extrinsic sources like other's opinions of you. You have to learn to be comfortable with yourself in your own right.
True. This I struggle with.
I… Really haven’t been able to find that comfort within myself. Ever. Unfortunately…
But when life is so shit, I guess that’s no surprise, sadly. Ha…
So, I've got this elderly neighbor who's in pretty bad shape and needs a lot of help. I started doing little things for him like changing lightbulbs and giving him rides.
At first I "volunteered" my help but what happened is, he just kept taking. He would call constantly and, if I didn't answer, he'd knock on my door. At this point I was a single working Dad with two young kids and I didn't have time to jump when he called.
Eventually I had to set him straight and, after that, I started charging him. Not a lot (he's living off government support) but enough to drive home the message that my time is valuable. After that, he became much more judicious about asking for help.
The point is, you need to value yourself, or no one else will. You can "volunteer" at every place in town but all it will do is show people you can be taken advantage of (imo, volunteering os for businesses and politicians trying to convince people they "care"). You need to expect at least a token compensation.
For what it's worth, I appreciate you posting stuff. But I don't "value" it in terms of financial compensation. It's too bad if you can't post anymore, but I hope it would be because you were putting more time into yourself, rather than giving up on life.
Oh, yeah, I didn’t mean being “valued” in the sense of people paying me.
I just meant like, hypothetically, feeling like… Someone needs you around. Like you are of “value” enough in their life that if you weren’t there, their life would be materially less… “Good”, in some way, if you know what I mean?
So I agree with the general sentiment, it’s just that…
I guess I meant something slightly different to financial “value”.
You know, like how people value their partners, or a close friend, or something?
I don’t have that anymore.
Frankly, in hindsight, I’m not sure I’ve ever really had it.
I can't say that I can relate to what you're going through, my friend, because I haven't really experienced your kind of struggles in my life. If I remember right, you've said that you're Australian in past posts, so the chances of ever physically attending would be slim, buuuuut...
Have you considered a good Bible-believing, and preaching church? I can tell you right now with 100% certainty that God is the only reason I have hope for this world. And not "Hope" in the sense of "Gee, I hope that I don't catch that really slow red light on my way in to work.", but it's more of an assurance. I believe that this is going to happen, and that is a kind of peace that you can't put into words.
If you'd like, I would be more than willing to give you the website of the church I attend. We live stream and record every sermon, and the staff is happy to help you with any questions, or even just talk with you and pray for you if that's what you need.
Sure, sounds good dude.
I don’t know if PMs exist on here, but would be interested to hear more.
I’ve been to church a few times, but not regularly (well, not in a long time). But yeah, would be interested. Cheers!
Man's value is innate. Having gone through (or going through) most of the same things, two things keep me going.
One, I have picked a thing that I have wanted to make happen for years (restarting the family farm), and I am making that happen, and fuck the doubters and the critics with clean hands.
Two, I have embraced my faith. Everything that is happening has been foreseen. Too much worry is evil. "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?"
Get a dog. Not kidding, they're great companions.
Yeah, I have a family dog. He’s great. I look after him a lot.
I’m just not in the position in life, currently, to take on one of my own. It would be entirely irresponsible and unfair on the dog. And make renting incredibly hard, which just wouldn’t be far on myself right now…
I’ve also dated plenty of dog-owning women, and it just… They put too much into the whole “dog parent” thing. They’ve replaced parenting with that. Which…
Look, I dunno. I just think, a) it can become a bit too much of your identity, sometimes (like with those girls), and b) I really wouldn’t want to put the dog in a situation where it couldn’t live a fully decent life, you know? And I just can’t really give it that, atm.
So I just look after other people’s dogs, including my parents, instead.
So yeah, I agree. But also all of that.
I have thought this through in some detail, though, as you can see, hahaha.
In a better life, I would definitely do this. But for now, the family dog fulfills that. For now.
Stop living life for work.
Go join a CrossFit gym and start focusing on improving your body and mind. Work only exists for dollars, so minimize your time at work and maximize your time doing things that matter.
Unfortunately I do the work I do, not for some unrealistic dream like buying a house, or to go on holiday, or to pay for luxuries, but to pay for medical bills for various ongoing things (not mental)…
I know, right? That’s not a great way to live, but… When your body decides “Fuck you, you’re gonna have to deal with this now”, you don’t really have much of a choice…
It’s been like this for a couple of years.
Hard to explain, but it’s just reality.
I’ll try and find motivation to start running and cycling again soon. Can’t really afford the gym right now though.
Yeah, it’s that bad.
Get a job with better insurance. Where I work, premiums for a family of 4 are like $2000/year, and annual cap is $4000. That means for $6000, I get unlimited health events covered, and $4000 of that is pre-tax payments through an HSA.
The individual plans are even less money. I’ve racked up a quarter mil in some years, and all I paid was $6k total, mostly pretax.
I don’t live in the US, so it’s different here…
I pay, like… $700AUD a year, which is what, $500US or so..?
But it’s surprising what it doesn’t cover, actually. Like, this is Australia, so public health covers a lot, and then private on top of that, but I still probably pay… Around $10K (gap) per year, purely on medical stuff..?
Which is a lot, when you have very little…
I like your posts. Hope to see more in the future.
I still don't get why anyone who could stay at home, doing work that directly benefits you and your loved ones, could get conned into wanting to work a soul crushing slave wage job that is likely to shorten your lifespan due to stress related health problems.
I get how much the people behind the scenes probably pushed for it but that feminism was still seen as a positive is stupid and I wonder how much revisionism is going on when talking about the public opinion at the time, then again people are also dumb today so.....sigh human stupidity might be as constant as taxes and death.
Oh, it’s not that I have a problem with contraceptives per se - it’s that contraceptives being pushed led, with very clear correlation, to “free love” and the death of monogamy, which is how… We get to today.
“Consequence-free” sex has been utterly corrosive to the stability of most of the West, and has totally destroyed gender relations…
It’s more complicated than that, of course, but contraceptives played a massive part in that, unfortunately (imho, but also factually)…
"Tradcons" a are mostly neoliberal shills. They are actually too pre-occupied with the culture instead of policy.