Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

Re:Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force by earlINmeyerkeg on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:42PM (#22014569)

That is probably the one part of the article they really should've made more prominent. Yet they didn't. They hammered it home that videogames and young men not getting married and having 12 kids is the problem.

Maybe culturally getting married is incredibly more time consuming and difficult than it used to be? I mean I'm reading George Orwell's Burmese days and the main character was trying to propose (and the girl wanted him to) within 2 weeks of knowing eachother! Granted it's a book, but that doesn't sound outside the realms of normalcy, especially in Burma during the 1920's where there were like 1/1000 ratio of white person to native.

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Re:Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force by watwut on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:53PM (#22014698)

It did used to be normal to marry after extremely short time from our point of view. And divorce was harder.

There were consequences for that through - partner who hate each other, violence, abuse (verbal, emotional, physical). Alcoholism.

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Re:Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force by magduf on Friday January 10, 2020 @03:20PM (#22015037)

>There were consequences for that through - partner who hate each other, violence, abuse (verbal, emotional, physical). Alcoholism.

Yeah, the people who pine for the "good old days" when people married for life always leave this part out.

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Re:Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force by earlINmeyerkeg on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:49PM (#22015967)

Abusive MEN in particular. Especially radical christians where divorce is stigmatized. It's like they take it as a free pass to just be hateful person. Honestly my dad more than anything made marriage seem worse than it could be that I figured if that's the worst case scenario, hoping for the best isn't even worth the gamble.

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Re:Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force by mywittyname on Friday January 10, 2020 @03:58PM (#22015463)

Yet, they always seem to remember what milkmen and secretaries were for.

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Re:Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force by earlINmeyerkeg on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:47PM (#22015945)

I totally agree and don't think I'm idolizing the past. It's just a different world today and the culture has not caught up with reality.

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