it hurts to say this but young women will never be hotter more idealistic more fresh more beautiful more raw and magnetic than they were in their first significant toxic relationship
If you're ever lost/stranded change your voicemail immediately to say where you are, who you were with, what time you arrived etc. When people notice you're missing and start calling you, the voicemail may just save your life especially if your phone goes dead or you have no service.
When I was 18 years old and homeless (living in my car) I went to the community college financial aid office and told them my parents refused to fill out the FAFSA and I didn’t live with them anyways.
The financial aid advisor advised me to “have a baby.”
She told a homeless, unmarried, 18 year old to have a baby so I could attend college.
“That way you don’t need your parent’s tax information”
This is how stupid welfare programs are.
“If the world born from my body oppressed me, I will not let that world exist.”
Marxist feminism has always understood childbirth as political.
Women don’t just produce children. We produce the next generation of workers, taxpayers and soldiers, mostly while doing enormous amounts of unpaid labour.
Birth strikes aren’t new.
Enslaved women resisted forced reproduction with contraception and abortion because their children became property and labour for slaveholders.
European socialist women later openly called for a Gebärstreik, a birth strike. Why keep producing workers for factories and sons for imperial wars?
What is the point of giving birth to soldiers just to watch them die?
The Great Depression caused another kind of birth strike. Not organized. People just couldn’t afford children, so birth rates collapsed.
Sound familiar?
Today you have 4B explicitly rejecting marriage, sex, dating and childbirth with men.
But the much bigger strike is economic.
Women are expected to work full time, absorb pregnancy and childbirth, take the career hit, pay insane housing and childcare costs, then come home and do the unpaid second shift.
So women are having fewer children.
Call it feminism. Call it economics. Call it whatever you want.
You cannot make motherhood economically punishing and then panic because women stop producing the next generation of workers and taxpayers.
If the system needs our children that badly, maybe it should build a world worth having them in.
In America “Labor Day” means everyone with a fake email job gets the day off and actual laborers have to work twice as hard to keep up with the extra demand created
The reason people hate flock cameras is that they know the government will not use them to lock up the insane depraved criminals who will stab you while you walk through Times Square but will instead mail you a ticket for speeding on an empty highway at 2AM.
Melinda French Gates has matched Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival $10 million donation, bringing the total to $20 million.
The funds will go towards nonprofit organizations benefiting women and girls.