Women aren’t breadwinners? In this economy?
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gilokee@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Peter Pan syndrome. Men don’t want the responsibility of being breadwinners/leaders/whatever, so they choose to be women instead. At least, that’s what my husband and I think it is.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 week ago
coming from a single income family its not something people can choose to do nowadays unless you are wealthy and has never been much of a choice if you were poor. Middle class is just gone.
SuiXi3D@fedia.io 1 week ago
When we’re still developing in the womb, we all start as women. A hormonal change causes the fetus to start switching over to developing as male, which is why every single man has a seam running up their ballsack. In any case, it’s my firm belief that this hormonal change is not a switch, but more like a gradual change. Some get all the external parts but something might not change all the way in the mind. Others have it differently, which is how you get intersex folks. In any case, one does not decide to live their life as a woman, who typically have it much harder than men, on a whim.
beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
This implies that being trans is a decision. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to choose whether you have schizophrenia or autism or ADHD too? Do it for attention for a while, mayhaps, and then once it starts getting tiring go back to normal?
Not to mention that being a man automatically means being breadwinners/leaders/whatever is a bit of an outdated way of thinking. Gender equality still has a long way to go, but damn, successful women in stem exist and I would like to think that you can at least choose to become a househusband in this day and age… And if one truly cannot find a woman that wins enough to support both, maybe they can just “choose” to swing another way? Have you asked your husband if he’s ever thought about doing that? It’d be a very reasonable financial decision, I encourage him to give it a thought.
And it’s not as though being trans is a walk in the park. If one chooses to be trans, they’re going to get a life with far, far more worries than if they’d just stayed as the gender they were assigned at birth. Tons of people who hate them just for existing will appear, and whether they lose the right to exist could change in the future…
AskewLord@piefed.social 1 week ago
it’s only outdated amongst college-educated liberal people, and even then it’s not really.
successsful women in stem still want dominant male providers, and very few want househusbands.