80% of the women I know have been sewing face masks for donation, looking for patterns that encourage people to like them, learning to bake bread, the whole nine.

Whereas statistically, it’s mostly men refusing to wear masks, because fellas, I guess it’s pretty gay to live.
Look. I know. Not all men. Obviously not all men.

But show me a story where thirteen people lost their jobs and a man lost his business because his unemployed wife refused to look after their children temporarily. During a pandemic.

This culture has a problem.
What frustrates me so much is this is happening, big & small, all the time. Women being stuck between the need to have a career because one income doesn’t cut it anymore & also having to do as much childcare as ever.

And then being mocked for “wanting to have it all.”
All the while, things have never been more regressive online.

Mainstream podcasts & commentators shit on women for clicks. Incels are literally killing us for not sleeping with them. Redpill & MGTOW can’t shut up about how great women have it & how men need to take it all back
I have to listen to a river of vicious bile about women every day, in a country that actively preferred fascism to a woman, & most of the purveyors of that bile are raking it in on the backs of their hilarious hate.

How dare they, here on Ada Lovelace & Grace Hopper’s Internet?
Meanwhile the reality is, most women are trying their fucking best in a culture that is RACING to undo everything that allows them to be almost full members of humanity.

“Hey, maybe women shouldn’t have gotten the vote” did not used to be something young people got paid to say.
I guarantee you what happened to that woman has happened over and over without ever being reported in the media, because “choosing” motherhood over career is a positive cultural narrative (& choosing fatherhood isn’t).

But that wasn’t a choice. And now that family has no income.
So please, boy intellectuals of the internet, tell me some more about how women are so inferior & stupid & contribute nothing. Give me some more of that enforced monogamy shit, on a nice slice of I’d vote for a woman, just not THAT woman pie.

Goddammit, this future sucks.
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