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Early last month, Time Magazine quietly ran a sleeper story headlined, “Why So Many Women Are Quitting the Workforce.” As usual, it never actually answered the question, but rather was a massive bat-signal for the conservative counter-revolution at work, which is probably why you never heard anything else about it.
Get this: According to the most recent labor statistics (as of August 1st), -212,000 women between ages 20 and 44 have left the workforce. It’s clearly a gender-specific phenomenon. During the same period, +44,000 more men in that same age range entered.
Something is happening. ...
But the Washington Post went where Time refused to go. A week later, WaPo ran a much more thoughtful story about the same statistics, headlined, “Mothers are leaving the workforce, erasing pandemic gains.” Mothers. So … it’s not back-to-work, OnlyFans gigs, or ICE raids on nursery schools. It’s motherhood. That’s the “problem.”
It turns out that, if you pick apart the official labor data, the largest cohort of ladies fleeing traditional jobs were those with kids under 5. WaPo admitted that a lot of them are pretty happy about it, too:
In some cases, mothers say they are giving up jobs happily, in line with
MAGA culture and the rise of the "traditional wife" (#tradwife on social
media), which celebrates women choosing conventional gender roles by
focusing on children instead of careers. The Trump administration has
doubled down on its message that Americans should be having more
babies, with Vice President JD Vance promoting the benefits of having a
parent at home, saying "young children are clearly happier and
healthier" in such arrangements.
The same theme tracked straight through the story. “Work was a big, big part of my identity, but all of these little things added up,” said Isabelle Beulaygue, 37, who this year left her job as a university professor in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to stay home with her infant. Ellie Santoni, 39, said, “I was working so much, there were weeks when I saw my kids for maybe 30 minutes a day. Finally, it was like, ‘Let’s slow this down, so I can be a present mother.’”
Don’t misunderstand; both Time and WaPo unquestionably presented the trend as a deplorable setback for women’s rights. Instead of seeing the joyful fulfillment these mothers achieved, both pessimistic platforms saw only losses; lost income, lost opportunity, lost respect.
But what was possibly most impressive about this underreported story was how these women —happier working for their families instead of for their bosses— were quoted at all, and quoted unskeptically, at that. We have apparently achieved a new cultural milestone where motherhood is now finally re-recognized as a viable option for young women, and not necessarily always the lesser option.

You should totally mention that time Mohammed tortured Safiya's husband to death to find the location of his money, murdered her father, and then raped her the same day.
It was truly a hilarious episode.
They need to sell one way mirror tickets to the beaver shlepping. Still, the economics will depend on men.
MolotovCocktail says

Women simply cannot hang out with each other. There's always a breach in the "friendship" with other women. Guys need to be present to calm the cattiness of women. Because it's not as violent, most women fights go unreported to authorities. Men are more violent when it gets to that stage. So men are made out to be animals.
Women are way worse. Could be violence or emotional, but women without a moral compass are dangerous.

Booger says
Yep. If you’re well enough off that you don’t need a wife to work and afford all the things she wants, better get a prenup. For everyone else tradition is necessarily dead imo
Yep. If you’re well enough off that you don’t need a wife to work and afford all the things she wants, better get a prenup. For everyone else tradition is necessarily dead imo
mell says
Yep. If you’re well enough off that you don’t need a wife to work and afford all the things she wants, better get a prenup.
For everyone else tradition is necessarily dead imo
Prenup just means the lawyers will litigate the divorce AND the prenup until the marital estate winds up mostly in their fee bucket as usual usual. Prenup is just a contract, and endless battles over contracts are just as possible as endless battles over divorce.
I read something that lawyers consider themselves rightfully entitled to at least 40 percent of any estate if they become involved. They will keep the paper churning and the parties adversarial until they have achieved that goal.
It’s a crapshoot. Make your wife your best friend. If you don’t think your her best friend, take measures.
Booger says
No doubt
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Using Hijab as a symbol of the Women's March: This garment is a symbol of FREEDOM! for Women.
Mike Pence doesn't go to social events without his wife to avoid temptation and possible honey traps or false accusations: MUH SOGGY KNEE