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> "Maybe what ails us is not our freedom per se, but something we mistake for freedom—being detached from family obligations" > "College, medical school, law s
by tsukikage 2y ago
> "Maybe what ails us is not our freedom per se, but something we mistake for freedom—being detached from family obligations"
> "College, medical school, law school, and the like (...) just eat up childbearing years"
> "Pakaluk seems to wish she could sit down with all the ambitious young women at top colleges and dissuade them from what she and her subjects see as a devastating lie"
TLDR: freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
- like_any_other 2y agoWorking for an uncaring corporation is freedom, caring for your family is slavery.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoChildren and homemaking is slavery to some. If it’s a calling, go for it. Those who don’t want that life script have options. The options you enumerate are not binary. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230208-the-adults-celebrating-child-free-lives https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230208-the-adults-cel... https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-bad-looks-good/202102/why-so-many-single-women-without-children-are-happy https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-bad-looks-good/2... https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-happier-without-children-or-a-spouse-happiness-expert https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-h...