‘Life is less affordable than ever so give up your paycheck ladies’

open.substack.com/pub/tooambit...

45% of mothers are breadwinners for their families…

But I’ve yet to hear a man’s income compared to the cost of childcare.

open.substack.com/pub/tooambit...

"No matter how perfectly you perform the patriarchal ideals of “womanhood,” no matter how many babies you have, how many sourdoughs you bake or how much pilates you practice, you are less likely to be safe or secure in a society that celebrates those ideals." open.substack.com/pub/tooambit...

"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

"Misinformation about descriptive representation is disconcerting because research shows that people who overestimate how successful women have been in getting elected express less support for electing more women to office."
academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

Tradwives aren't performing a lifestyle choice, they are engaging in benevolent sexism.

Benevolent sexism correlates with greater acceptance of intimate partner violence toward women, a larger gender gap in unpaid domestic labor and fewer women in paid labor

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"This free-time gender gap adds up quickly. For full-time workers, it is as if men get a month more a year of vacation compared to their women peers."

thegepi.org/the-free-tim...

I'd love to see women talk about the inequity in their relationships without saying 'it's just what made sense'.

We might have to cope with patriarchy, but we don't have to justify or defend it.

‘These patterns were absent in women, who displayed much lower levels of victimhood ideology under similar conditions.'

'Findings consistently demonstrate that male victimhood beliefs [the belief that men are primary targets of gender discrimination] are driven by PERCEIVED privilege loss rather than OBJECTIVE economic hardship.'
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...

Fertility declines are greater in countries (and cohorts) where men report a stronger reluctance to share childcare and housework.

Though not surprising it was one of the most interesting things I learned while working on this piece slate.com/life/2024/12...

"If men were unable to marry, prime-age male work hours would fall by 7%" www.richmondfed.org/publications...

Looking back at the "tradwife" and related trends in 2024, like the "I can't pay my mortgage" TikToks.

What's remarkable is how fake it all is. In reality, women are more independent than ever.

It's propaganda more than a trend.

www.salon.com/2024/12/19/t...