this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
141 points (83.7% liked)
A Boring Dystopia
9539 readers
424 users here now
Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.
Rules (Subject to Change)
--Be a Decent Human Being
--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title
--Posts must have something to do with the topic
--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.
--No NSFW content
--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Didn’t finish all of the stories, but it seems pretty much as you’d expect: get trapped with someone that was either always controlling and selfish or develops that mentality by having control over someone and being the sole money maker.
Really makes the case for me that parenting should be made easier and being a workaholic type de-normalised. All of it seems to be a synptomatic of deeper dynamics around filling your life with things that aren’t satisfying or humane: jobs and “trad helicopter parenting”
Yeah it's not really surprising. Like the trad wife movement was obviously a mix of things from wanting to be taken care of from overworked women and power tripping from men that feel a lack of control elsewhere in their life and searching for an easy out almost always comes with some big caveats and room for abuse.
We really need work not to be an all encompassing overwhelming burnout endeavor and we really need community support in child support and raising.
Probably will see something interesting happen though just as a counter movement to trad wives but I don't think it will actually be good persay.
It's not really complicated. The "trad" role belongs to a social setup where women are domestic house slaves and offspring factories, legitimate offspring in the case of an offspring from a wife. This is the traditional pastoralist setup, the wife is just another type of female livestock.
Raising children? Slavery.
Slavery is about the nature of those relationships, not the act. Just because you're raising kids it doesn't mean that it's not slavery, something that's exceedingly obvious to those who live in "chattel slavery" in which people are owned in more obvious ways, unmediated by debt relationships. Did you know that the words "cattle" and "chattel" and "capital" have the same root, that root word being head?