Otherhood: No Matter How Much They Achieve, 'Childless Cat Ladies' Can't Escape Bias

Chief ^ | August 1, 2024 | Meghan Rabbitt

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

So let’s just ignore all single men or women. Brilliant...that’s the way to get votes

[Bubba_Leroy]

Childless cat ladies are one of the democrats’ most reliable voting blocks. When women get married and have children they tend to vote Republican.

It freaks liberals out to hear that, but it is a simple, easily proven, demographic fact.

[Cold Heart]

An old chief engineer described a test to see if you were irreplaceable on a ship. Stick your hand in a bucket of water and then pull it out. If the water flows back in to where your hand was you are replaceable.

[RAldrich]

Guess Joan of Arc and Queen Elizabeth I of England were “unpatriotic” - didn’t care about the next generation. Have to check out Boadicea.

[blueunicorn6]

Too much Hollywood and Madison Avenue putting out unrealistic views of women.

It used to be that a guy married a girl from the family four farms down.

Somehow, our country really took off under that model.

Hollywood and Madison Avenue have really hurt women.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

Notkin. Notkin. Not having kin.

[Entropy Squared]

The point of marriage (pre-DNA testing) was to assure men that the children in their home were theirs. Men who have that assurance have an investment in the future and build things like businesses, bridges and space shuttles. Men without that go feral. Women who forego an investment in the future become cat ladies.

[Dr. Sivana]

Tell that to women who can’t have children.

My wife and I were unable to have children the ordinary way, so we adopted three. I know couples similarly situated who were open to children and it just didn't happen, and they chose not to adopt.

The difference is mindset, being open to life even if it doesn't come your way. After every real war there is always going to be a surplus of single women, and they often became teachers, nurses, etc. They did not generally become crazy cat ladies because they didn't buy into the idea of the superwoman whose primary aim in life should be a self-centered career and secular achievement. So, when a small subset of society falls into that category, but marriage and motherhood (or religious life) are considered the norm for women, there is no shame if some number of women don't fall in as long as they don't try to become a political force unto themselves reshaping society in their own image. A Europe run by a cadre of Angela Merkels will not fare as well as one headed by a group of Margaret Thatchers.

[Chode]

cat farmers, feh...

[alternatives?]

“The thing is, men don’t usually have to give up a family for a career, so they have a support system to fall back to.”

Most “careers” are really just a job. Men have a job to support a family.

[alternatives?]

“Tell that to women who can’t have children..”

There is a difference between those who couldn’t and those who waited until they couldn’t.

[Bigg Red]

Well said.

[Secret Agent Man]

Well, words mean things.

[wardaddy]

True

My aunt is N 84 year old childless lesbian who lived monagamously and quietly with her partner for 60 years

She’s also a major Trump supporter who detests wokism and keeps up Saell ask do

Not all are bad news

[lepton]

Yet despite the fact that there are more women than ever before opting out of motherhood

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“Opting out of motherhood” aka “Ideologically sterilized”, for the most part.

[Herakles]

As nature sees it women have only one function in life it’s not to be CEOs of some corporation or vice presidents or presidents!

[Bobalu]

Compared to raising a crop of healthy and happy children everything else seems quite secondary...

[FLT-bird]

The reason is because - for whatever biological reasons - unmarried and especially childless women are the absolute backbone of the Democrat party. That demographic are precisely the types who are highly controlling busybodies who want the government to dictate every last facet of others’ lives. No, that does not mean all. Yes, I’m well aware that there are exceptions. But the facts speak for themselves. Unmarried women are the ONLY demographic the Democrats win but they win this one group so overwhelmingly that it makes them competitive.

[Tom Tetroxide]

They’re more like childless, crazy cat ladies.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

good post.