Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on ""MEN I'm Sorry!" – 90% of China's Older Unmarried Women Begin to Confess... TOO LATE" video.
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Women have been sold a bill of goods. Go to college. Break that glass ceiling. You don't need no man. We're still somewhat early in handling industrialized society and we're already into e-society.
I think we have a pretty good idea of how this thing works, but we always point to the dysfunctional marriages where people feel trapped. The happy marriages are too busy living the dream, with young ones underfoot, to waste much time griping or posting on social media.
As a late boomer, my parents were definitely caught up in the rat-race, too tired when they came home from work to really have much time or use for us kids. Before industrialization (which has many benefits), kids saw what Mom & Dad were doing, and learned how to do the same things, themselves. In the '70s, Dad would leave for work in a bad mood because he didn't want to go to work and then when he got home he was tired and in a worse mood.
This sort of idea is explored in Iron John literature. "Work" is something mysterious Dad does in a giant factory that he hates, and your job, as a boy, is to grow up and do the same thing. It's not very appealing.
But some parents get it right. Their focus is their kids and the work is just a means to that end, rather than an end unto itself that children just make more aggravating. Along about that same time, in the '70s, moms had all the labor-saving devices invented in the '50s and were suddenly not content to be home-makers, any more. Staying home wasn't glamorous or exciting, like the women on daily soap operas that they watched. I think a lot of brain rot started setting in about that time.
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