Insult or not, well-meaning movements are often hijacked and co-opted by corporations and governments. Women's lib is just one example. People are often not gi

Insult or not, well-meaning movements are often hijacked and co-opted by corporations and governments. Women's lib is just one example. People are often not given a choice, individually or even collectively. For example when Crimea overwhelmingly (94%) voted in 1991 to be independent of Ukraine, no one honored it. Then 6 months later they voted 54% for Ukraine to be independent of USSR, and that was taken as them wanting to be part of Ukraine. Then in 2014, the only choices given were be part of Ukraine, or be part of Russia. They never again got to vote for independence in a referendum, as Montenegro or Kosovo did. Kurds and Catalonians voted for independence in 2017, but none of that was honored. Uyghurs, Rohingya, Palestinians and many others are stateless. In short, people are usually just kicked around by whatever system the governments set up. And similarly with corporations, though it's more voluntary, it's still a system. As a young woman, to declare that you aspire to be a mother and homemaker, is something of an oddity and peer pressure is strong at formative young years. I wouldn't say most young people are really making "their own choices" statistically speaking, and in any case, the choices society has collectively made has led people psychologically to be more miserable across the board, and we are using medication as a way to treat the symptoms. I could be wrong. Perhaps today's women are actually happier than their grandmothers ever were. But it doesn't seem to be borne out in the data. And I think it has to do with the labor market. https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Intellectual_Life/Stevenson_ParadoxDecliningFemaleHappiness_Dec08.pdf https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Intel... https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/18/womens-rights-happiness-wellbeing-gender-gap https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/18/womens-... I should say that the USSR has enfranchised women much earlier than USA, and given them equal rights to jobs much earlier. It's hard to me to gauge whether people there were happier by the 1990s (fall of USSR) than people in USA are today (we may be reaching a breaking point here as well).