I remember back before we moved to Uruguay I'd be at the park with my kid (she was around 2 at the time) and I'd let her do her best on her own on the playground equipment, while other moms would be like standing behind their kids the whole time in case they stumbled at all. And everyone once in a while they'd make a passive aggressive comment about like "oh do you need help sweetie you're all on your own here" and of course if she needed help I was watching the whole time and would jump up. But the universal helicoptering was shocking.

Aw man I started reading essays by anti-sufferagettes today and I can't believe I am sympathetic but their arguments are extremely interesting I'd have to explain it long form but the TLDR is that fundamental 9/10 women at the time were against it and it's because they saw the private, informal, civic sphere as their domain. They saw the man's sphere as industry, business and formal politics.

Being against the machine can take many forms, but sometimes the backlash leads to worse culture than we're running away from! It's not so cut and dry that we're allies since we both hate globalism or whatever. There are many types of backlash cultures that are understandable, given what they're reacting to, but I don't like them and don't want to see more of them.