The Rise of the Non-Working Class

Re:The Rise of the Non-Working Class by sleepymoose on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:07PM (#33709750)

Except that he later goes on to describe how this is also affecting women more and that we should be paying attention to that as well? I don't think anything the author said is actually disparaging of women, in fact there was quite a bit of the opposite, talking about how vital their role in society has been. He's not blaming working moms, he's using them as the perfect example that a person can leave the workforce for years at a time and rejoin without much loss.

Where is he blaming mothers for this situation in the statement you quoted?

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Re:The Rise of the Non-Working Class by zzzeek on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:03PM (#33712804)

implication that there is supposedly some bias towards giving jobs to moms re-entering the workforce and not to men. which is absurd. the US does not even have any system of state-supported childcare set up. The lives of working moms could not be more difficult.

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Re:The Rise of the Non-Working Class by nonethewiser on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:27PM (#33713024)

You've misread it. He's saying men don't re-enter despite being able to, as proven by women. If anything it's a criticism of men.

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Re:The Rise of the Non-Working Class by zzzeek on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:16PM (#33713390)

well, chalk it up to a site that as soon as I go there pops up a giant, screen-covering banner for me to learn about how trans people are horrible (only a few days after a massacre of trans people in Colorado, very tasteless) and deceptively calls itself "Independent Women's Forum" while being an obviously conservative / libertarian site that per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33709488 was founded as a group to defend Clarence Thomas of all people, who not only was indeed a sexual harasser but also just voted to strip the right to abortion for women across the US.

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