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Being a woman (media.piefed.world)

submitted 21 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, a society that doesn't take into account biology can't possibly last. The hard discussion is that a lot of it is because we, as a modern society, expect certain things now: access to contraception is good, women having equal ability to enter college and employment is good.

But it's unavoidable that when an increasingly large share of the population are getting established in their careers in their late 20s or early 30s, the window of time to date, marry, and start a family is so much shorter than it used to be. Add in increased housing and living costs, and the window gets even smaller. Also, heaven forbid any step in the process takes longer than planned...

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, a society that doesn’t take into account biology can’t possibly last.

It is also important to take it into account in a positive way. In the 'past' women were disqualified for certain jobs because they might get pregnant and that would require giving them leave and that would cost the capitalist machine profits!

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes I wonder if women's lib was only successful because it happened to align with the capitalist desire to double the labor pool. Is that too cynical? Maybe we still would've gotten there otherwise.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's irritating that you used to be able to run a 2.4 children household on a male breadwinner, and now two incomes is often not enough. We've normalised everyone working and noone able to focus on home and the family.

I guess the idea of the "stay at home dad" didn't take off enough to normalise a single worker after women were able to leave the house.

(I'm aware of the broad strokes hetronormative language here, but it's relevant)

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

I guess the idea of the “stay at home dad” didn’t take off enough to normalise a single worker after women were able to leave the house.

Part of that is women's wages didn't rise to match men's wages.