He lays it out in his books too. Currently I’m reading his book The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and Governmental Control.
I doubt this comes with any consolation but if there’s something I’ve learned it’s that you’ll be judged by people regardless so it’s best to follow the path you want (so long as it’s productive and adds value) … ultimately those who judge you for your choices have the luxury of not having to live with them, by and large
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I don’t mind the judging per say, it’s the repetition (especially by family) that will get annoying, fast.
My uncle was a bachelor and was constantly pestered by family to get a wife and have kids. I even participated in the teasing early on. I have a very low tolerance for teasing or pestering
My mum had always been pretty strict about me not having a boyfriend in high school (not that I minded), but over the past two years, she’s become increasingly inquisitive and makes not so subtle references about wanting me to bring someone home
Increased tax burden, economic stagnation, less innovation, and social alienation.
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Interesting - did not know that.
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I am not on the market for ‘quality women’ or any other kind and haven’t been for quite a long time. Just observations.
Garbage collectors and landscapers make significantly more than ass wiping women? I haven’t quite looked up the stats, but I am seriously doubting that. Particularly since the latter is dominated also by illegal aliens and don’t have to adhere to minimum wage requirements.
Nor do I see at any point where a matriarchy is in anyway preferable to a patriarchy, nor do I see the need to try any such social experiment as making immutable characteristics the basis for positions that require above all, a high level of competence.
I prefer the standard metric of meritocracy based on where merit is distributed by competence and that deliberately excludes immutable group characteristics, to attain it. In other words let the cream rise to the top, female vs. male should not be the consideration.
Yes, it’s downright silly to promote people based on their group characteristics, especially if they cannot do the work as well as the individuals who were excluded.
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What desired outcome do you think I want?
If women want men’s jobs then they have to demonstrate that they are as competent in every way as a man is at that job. And there are a few who are and excel at them. And if it your desire to be a rich and powerful woman in full control, do so with all the blessings in the world. Just keep in mind it’s a lonely existence. I have no desire to keep any person down based on their immutable characteristics and I feel its wrong to do so.
That however, is not the norm. These women are several standard deviations outside the norm as to what average women say they want and the outcomes they end up having. As demonstrated by the ever praised Scandinavian system, the more egalitarian the society, the more people tend to drift into their standard biological make-ups. And that’s fine with me as long as everybody had the freedom to choose their will. They do have a couple of issues plaguing their countries as a result of their egalitarian makeup. Low marriage rates and even lower birth rates.
The problem seems strange to me to be listed as a problem since overpopulation has been feared for so long that a natural decline would be welcome, but apparently its not… but I digress.
I don’t know what ‘outcome’ you think I am striving for, I am certain you must have made several leaps to come to that. I am looking at the way things are, not how I want them to be.
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I’m not sure…but they have better job titles, at least.
You and I both know this is not realistic. The reality is that modern women of the current generation have more freedom, independence, advantage than any generation previously to them, but they are also the most miserable lot. I will give the obligitory notice that of course this is not all women and it may not even be most, but it’s a large enough subset that it cannot be ignored.
The latest 2020 census data has born out some interesting issues plaguing women today. And I say women because it’s not men who have changed near as much as women.
For instance, the average woman has less than a 50% shot at ever being married, period. Meaning, no marriages at all. Keep in mind that the data still include the influence of baby-boomers who were married at a much higher rate. Broken out by age and demographic info the picture gets even bleaker… for women.
Another is that obesity rates in women are vastly outpacing men.
Why do I say that? It’s because many men are walking away from marriage and long term commitment in total, while 80% of the women are the ones who are ending actual relationships. So you have to colliding forces. Women who want men at a higher rate and fewer men available than every before. And that’s before you even factor in the fact that women are the majority of the population by 2%, which doesn’t sound high until you realize that’s 7 million women who will never have even a sniff at a pair-bonding relationship.
What’s this have to do with anything you said? Well, it means that there is a crisis emerging yet unrealized by many, rendering the discussion of ‘reimagining’ gender-roles moot.
And besides, women don’t want weak homemaking men whom they have to support. And men don’t want women who want to act like and dominate men. Those relationships are extremely rare.
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Wow, the 2020 census actually gave all those colorful insights on these fat, hostile, unmarriageable women? Well, guess that settles it. Oh no wait a minute:
Your counter argument is a meme? Nice critical thinking skills.
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I agree. We only need to look at women in the middle east to see women who are truly happy.
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Welcome to the mind of an incel.
I try not to restate ideas that have already been optimally stated by someone else. But since you want to go there: your “facts” reek of opinion and whatever preconceived notions for which you wanted to solve and your analysis has all the precision of a crowbar.
Says who? And is it only women or is the entire population less happy? And where were women in comparison with men before? Were they previously more happy than men and are now just converging, or are they actually now less happy than men?
50% of women who want to be married or 50% of women, period? If the latter, how many of these women actually want to be married? And also if the latter, are these women who are prioritizing marriage above all other pursuits or just women who would like to be married but have prioritized a career (or something else)?
Capstone commentary explaining to a woman why she’s wrong about her own gender with a complement of some “heavy lies the crown” bullshit as though ambition/money/power are heavy burdens to be carried by the noble men who keep the world spinning on its axis. Thank God we’re past all that tough analysis so we can get to the point we’ve wanted to make along.
I could go on but frankly dissecting this is not worth the time I’ve already spent on it. Offer facts supported by objective third-party data (paraphrasing the 2020 census without sourcing anything doesn’t count) or just state your lived experiences as that’s something that can’t really be argued, but if you posit some thinly-disguised “stay in the kitchen” as a statistically-derived presentation of reality - expect a meme.
I applaud your patience to deal with BS
Occasionally it is the only appropriate response.
The quality of the response is contingent on the quality of the question/comment being responded to
What the census say on this? Is there an article by chance?
Is that for me? Because I have the same question you do.
:Lol I don’t get how you can write stuff I whole heartedly agree with but then write other stuff that I find so ludicrous I just feel like trolling you.
Just for the latter, I’m gonna put this shit in your head again.
