...Celebrating those who embrace a different path and live life on their own terms. Your choices are valid, your life is fulfilling, and your journey is uniquely yours. 💫 pic.twitter.com/PhjKjzrVdp
— Inquirer (@inquirerdotnet) August 1, 2024
the irony? Notice this is a young lady urged not to have children. Half the population is men. But women are more vulnerable to the social media fads.
There are a lot of single Philippine women, not because they chose a "child free" lifestyle, but because they are working (usually overseas) to help their families survive.
Lolo's single aunt helped pay his school fees to become a doctor. Lolo migrated to the USA instead of marrying his finace to support his dead brother's family. Multiply this by thousands and you see the problem: No local jobs.
But the Philippines is still above replacement level so the international elites want to encourage childlessness.
So the Inquirer has a lot of articles about relationships, but also a lot discussing pets as if they are children...
Reminds me of the K Drama we are watching right now: Two people were frozen for twenty years and come back to the modern day. And in one scene, the girl is looking aghast at people carrying dogs in diapers and dogs in baby carriages.
I love dogs but they are not children.
and yes, I have cats, but am not a childless cat lady: I am a grandmother who lives with an extended family.
There is a reason for the (now hated) cat woman meme: because they are seen as rejecting the family. '
I recently saw a tweet by a "happy 40 year old" who didn't need kids and was dancing like a teenager to celebrate her freedom and ability to travel and be free to do things she enjoys.
And I wonder: What will she do when she is 70?
The dirty little secret is that a lot of this type of tweeting is by immature people who obey what society wants them to be.
Reminds me of the clueless girls when I was in college who just wanted to marry and not learn anything to support themselves if they needed a job, because before women's lib that was what society was brainwashing them to do.
So they married, and then when things got rough, divorced the SOB because being single was the thing to do after women's lib became the in thing.
Today the propaganda is the opposite: career is everything and you don't need family.
Never mentioned: Women work for less money than men, so those needing cheap labor encourage women to work full time (and import cheap immigrant labor of course).
And alas, the Democrats who used to recognize this as a capitalist plan no longer see the problem of how women have to work full time and then try to care for her family... and so the propaganda ignores that being single and exploited for cheap labor benefits the elites of globalism...
the myth of the happy single lady is true for those of us who had careers in service and family and friends.
But those rejoicing in their freedom to be single are often just pretending.
Most never found a decent guy who met their standards and now it's too late. I always wonder why they didn't just consider marrying their best girl friend as an alternative to start a family, or adopting as a single mom but hey, that's just me.
Ironically, some people do recognize this is the dirty little secret of today's women: in their secret hearts many of these women love Hallmark films showing affluent career women in their thirties finding perfect handsome men who will love them.
well, worked for me. But ironically I wasn't looking for a husband (and Lolo was not looking for a wife) but that's another story...
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