Thread by @annehelen

"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women."

I talked to @JessicaCalarco about her research on women & pandemic parenting/relationships — and the idea of sociology as "un-gaslighting"

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"In the U.S., most of us aren’t taught to use our sociological imaginations. We’re not taught to think about social problems as structural problems."

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"We’re not taught to see the forces that operate beyond our control – forces like capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy....Instead, we — esp. women & people from other systematically marginalized groups — are taught to self-help-book our way out of structural problems."

"Intensive work and intensive parenting norms are especially powerful because they serve the interests of powerful actors in our society, including corporations and (white) men."

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