Every survey I've seen finds that left-wing women are far more unhappy and depressed than women in traditional cultures - Mormons, evangelicals, etc. We are the only species that is organized around the pleasure of its adults instead of raising the young - every higher animal culture, from birds to antelope, seals to our own relations in the simian world, is structured to protect the young. Us, we treat our babies like a burden ... no species can survive long like that ...
Many young leftist women feel a need to deny that they are heterosexual. This was certainly never the case when I was their age. It was emphatically the opposite kind of social pressure in those days to be married to a man and having children. But now, a lot of women of college age or older want to belong to one of the massively entitled, cool, fringe sexual identity groups. The human mating instinct is a powerful force, however, so most of these women will end up coupled with a man, even if they try to resist the pull. I suspect that couples in which she is a language-policing leftist and he is a performatively shameful white leftist guy will have problems.
In the 1960s, women were told that having children would not give them a feeling of achievement or accomplishment - that they needed to be like men and look for validation in a career.
That was only half the lie.
That so many men felt that a profession was more important than a wife and kids was the equally big lie.
In fact, what we do for a living is just how we put food on the table and a roof over our heads. If you enjoy it and are good at it, that's a bonus.
But basically, we're all working so we can pay someone else to grow our food for us.
A funny read. I read another article this am on how Elite Overproduction has caused an overpopulation of entitled elites and is, among other things, causing women to undermine other women, and less directly men, in service of a desire to dim the prospects of the children of others, and protecting the prospects of their own diminishing few. Elite males deal with competition for resources by sending the male children of others off to war (no small truth there). A lot of nonsense really, as with some of what you wrote, most of which I took in jest. The fundamental reality is a) resource scarcity (peak anything) is BS, and b) larger populations are better than smaller (if we allow ourselves to get there). The real problem underlying the societal ills you speak of: we allowed the state to get out of control, ruin our universities, and people our institutions with untested, uneducated idiots who think they know better than others what to do for the "Greater Good." Divide the large factor of their dysfunctional efforts with this zero: there is no such thing as the greater good. It's up to each of us to act in our individual "Enlightened Self Interest" for the betterment of ourselves and those around us, and otherwise... put a cork in it. As you point out, "Karens" of all known and imagined genders and identities leave enlightenment out of their self-seeking. Far, far worse: they're incapable of disconnecting their hummingbird brains from their pelican mouths.
Some tongue-in-cheek for sure. But not as much as some might imagine. There are more liberal white women behind BLM than there are committed revolutionaries.
Agreed. I should have typed, "funny but accurate." We seem aligned, and probably especially on the condition of the academy (which is a bummer for a long ago graduate who enjoyed learning in college, and charismatic, controversial professors, more than just about anything in life). I'm enjoying my subscription.
Please tell me why somebody always calls for a pot of hot water when a woman is in labor. I can think of more than one time that I was watching a movie or TV when someone sitting next to me would ask, "What is the purpose of the hot water, anyway?" And I didn't know but wasn't interested enough to look it up, until the next time the question came up.
I disagree. I was promoted several times until my later career titles were Chief Engineer, Chief Scientist or Chief Technical officer. Since the 1980s my supervisors had to provide in writing why a darker skin person or female could not be promoted instead of me, a white male. Many corporations were tracked on how successful they were at discriminating against white males by government and corporate regulators. These regulations in the 1980s and 1990s were established by organizations largely led by men. Virtue signalling by picking on men became a toxic social disease performed by both men and women. I will concede that modern feminists are the most publicly irritating but frequently not the most effective enforcers.
Every survey I've seen finds that left-wing women are far more unhappy and depressed than women in traditional cultures - Mormons, evangelicals, etc. We are the only species that is organized around the pleasure of its adults instead of raising the young - every higher animal culture, from birds to antelope, seals to our own relations in the simian world, is structured to protect the young. Us, we treat our babies like a burden ... no species can survive long like that ...
Many young leftist women feel a need to deny that they are heterosexual. This was certainly never the case when I was their age. It was emphatically the opposite kind of social pressure in those days to be married to a man and having children. But now, a lot of women of college age or older want to belong to one of the massively entitled, cool, fringe sexual identity groups. The human mating instinct is a powerful force, however, so most of these women will end up coupled with a man, even if they try to resist the pull. I suspect that couples in which she is a language-policing leftist and he is a performatively shameful white leftist guy will have problems.
In the 1960s, women were told that having children would not give them a feeling of achievement or accomplishment - that they needed to be like men and look for validation in a career.
That was only half the lie.
That so many men felt that a profession was more important than a wife and kids was the equally big lie.
In fact, what we do for a living is just how we put food on the table and a roof over our heads. If you enjoy it and are good at it, that's a bonus.
But basically, we're all working so we can pay someone else to grow our food for us.
A funny read. I read another article this am on how Elite Overproduction has caused an overpopulation of entitled elites and is, among other things, causing women to undermine other women, and less directly men, in service of a desire to dim the prospects of the children of others, and protecting the prospects of their own diminishing few. Elite males deal with competition for resources by sending the male children of others off to war (no small truth there). A lot of nonsense really, as with some of what you wrote, most of which I took in jest. The fundamental reality is a) resource scarcity (peak anything) is BS, and b) larger populations are better than smaller (if we allow ourselves to get there). The real problem underlying the societal ills you speak of: we allowed the state to get out of control, ruin our universities, and people our institutions with untested, uneducated idiots who think they know better than others what to do for the "Greater Good." Divide the large factor of their dysfunctional efforts with this zero: there is no such thing as the greater good. It's up to each of us to act in our individual "Enlightened Self Interest" for the betterment of ourselves and those around us, and otherwise... put a cork in it. As you point out, "Karens" of all known and imagined genders and identities leave enlightenment out of their self-seeking. Far, far worse: they're incapable of disconnecting their hummingbird brains from their pelican mouths.
Some tongue-in-cheek for sure. But not as much as some might imagine. There are more liberal white women behind BLM than there are committed revolutionaries.
Agreed. I should have typed, "funny but accurate." We seem aligned, and probably especially on the condition of the academy (which is a bummer for a long ago graduate who enjoyed learning in college, and charismatic, controversial professors, more than just about anything in life). I'm enjoying my subscription.
Please tell me why somebody always calls for a pot of hot water when a woman is in labor. I can think of more than one time that I was watching a movie or TV when someone sitting next to me would ask, "What is the purpose of the hot water, anyway?" And I didn't know but wasn't interested enough to look it up, until the next time the question came up.
Appalachia. What can I say?
I disagree. I was promoted several times until my later career titles were Chief Engineer, Chief Scientist or Chief Technical officer. Since the 1980s my supervisors had to provide in writing why a darker skin person or female could not be promoted instead of me, a white male. Many corporations were tracked on how successful they were at discriminating against white males by government and corporate regulators. These regulations in the 1980s and 1990s were established by organizations largely led by men. Virtue signalling by picking on men became a toxic social disease performed by both men and women. I will concede that modern feminists are the most publicly irritating but frequently not the most effective enforcers.