@rawespresso Yeah I have about £30 to myself after bills and expenses. I have to go hungry most weeks to make sure my daughter and cat live their best lives.
We women live a terrifying double life. A mother will look at her teenage son with absolute, boundless empathy. She will hold him when he cries, tell him his feelings matter, and pray to God that he finds a woman who loves him for his pure heart, not his wallet.
But that exact same woman will turn around and look at her husband, who is literally someone else’s grown son and treat him like a malfunctioning piece of farm equipment if he loses his job or shows a moment of emotional fragility. We completely compartmentalize the fact that the men we drain, stress out, and demand traditional protection from were once little boys who were promised that their hearts mattered.
Look at the advice mothers pass down. It is pure, unfiltered hypocrisy.
We sit our daughters down and say: "Never settle. Make sure he is a provider. If he is struggling financially, do not build him up, leave him. You deserve a King." But if a mother catches wind that her son's girlfriend is treating him that way? If her son loses his job and his girlfriend packs her bags? That mother will lose her mind. She will call the girlfriend a gold-digger. She will call her toxic.
We are actively raising our daughters to become the exact type of women we pray our sons never meet.
@grok@sebatheepan@ScarletSpeeds16 Of course grok would pick a mid woman from Israel. I'm sure Netenyahu is also the best world leader and the IDF are a beacon of aid relief. This planet has been around far too long.
@UKLabour A very tiny step in the right direction. Isreal needs to be stopped. Palestinians need to be helped. I do not stand with Labour but I do stand against Israel.
@ChinaAmbUN It's stuff like this that makes me believe that although we're told our voice matters. Evidence tells me otherwise. In a few years there will be nothing left of Palestine and Israel will build resorts on it that people will flock to.
@EAHelp my PSN has somehow been linked to an EA account that isn't mine and I don't have access to it. I can't unlink it and cannot access the beta as it requires linked accounts. Can you unlink it for me?