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@rhiannonlucyc @woodmally1979 @socialsoprano @PimpElectric @YesBredren 1/ Sounds like hokey feminist pseudo-science to be honest, and here's why: marriage is at the lowest level ever, according to your own rag: theguardian.com/world/2008/mar….

@rhiannonlucyc @woodmally1979 @socialsoprano @PimpElectric @YesBredren 2/ And birthrates are at the lowest level ever: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

@rhiannonlucyc @woodmally1979 @socialsoprano @PimpElectric @YesBredren 3/ I'm hardly Einstein, but that means there are more childless, unmarried women than ever before. Yay! Should be great for women, but women are more depressed and unhappy than they have ever been: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

@rhiannonlucyc @woodmally1979 @socialsoprano @PimpElectric @YesBredren 4/ This is the famous social science study, "The Paradox Of Declining Female Happiness". Interview with the researchers 👇🏾

@rhiannonlucyc @woodmally1979 @socialsoprano @PimpElectric @YesBredren 5/ Could it be that the guy you cite is wrong? I think so. Meanwhile, these unmarried, childless women are drinking harder than ever before. "From 2001 to 2013, there was a 58 percent increase in women’s heavy drinking." And that was ten years ago! nytimes.com/2022/04/03/opi…

@rhiannonlucyc @woodmally1979 @socialsoprano @PimpElectric @YesBredren 6/ In any case, this conversation got going when your friend Penny talked of how happy she was to be childless and married. No wonder. She is way happier than he is in this arrangement. It's not one he wants. It's all about her! Of course it is 👇🏾

@rhiannonlucyc @woodmally1979 @socialsoprano @PimpElectric @YesBredren 7/ Her unilateral #MyBodyMyChoice decision to be childless in a marriage(!) puts his well-being at tremendous risk 👇🏾

@rhiannonlucyc @woodmally1979 @socialsoprano @PimpElectric @YesBredren 8/ So Penny has extracted his resources, protection and health without doing any wifely birth-work at all (labour, you did it, it was hard). She has robbed him, but fair play. He is every woman's dream: a free meal ticket, every single day, Til Death Do Us Part. Aww, romance! 🥰

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