This is actually a great analysis of Hallmark Channel’s Christmas movies, and why their plots frequently center on 30-something year old women who abandon their successful big city lives to move back to their home towns and marry the handsome “boy next door.” It seems to be a very popular fantasy among the network’s primary audience, conservative women aged 50+.
This is an amazing article, thank you for sharing. As someone who fled red-state rural America for blue-state urban living I can’t put it better than this article. Everything was like reading from my own history.
I went to college to become more skilled in the labor force. I realized quickly that would give me the ability to move anywhere in the country and get a job.
The most welcoming place I’ve lived is my very blue state urban city. People here don’t care who I am, what I’m into (as long as it doesn’t hurt other people), what religion I am, or what my profession is. It’s by far a lot nicer than “nice” rural small towns
NewPerspective@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My family has a cabin. We’ve literally built it all by hand except for the cement foundation. It’s legit, signed off as meets code and everything. I brought a pride flag up knowing it might ruffle my grandparents feathers but I planned to talk to them respectfully. Before my grandparents ever saw it, my parents and uncle sat me down and said “we’re not going to allow that” and even going as far as saying “if you leave the flag here, we’re going to destroy it.” I didn’t fight them. I left. And despite my blood, sweat, and tears going into that cabin, I’m never going back.
I told them it wasn’t as simple as a difference of opinion, it was a difference in morality. They agreed.
I like the “tolerance is a social contract” approach to a tolerant society. My wife and I are thinking of growing our family. We both don’t want to subject a future child of ours to my family’s beliefs so we’re effectively estranged and I think my parents are slowly finding out we mean business and it’s not just “their kid throwing a fit.” Call me snowflake all you want, my child won’t hear it.
Djinn@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Uranium3006@kbin.social 5 months ago
One observation I read is that were going to rapidly reach a point in this country word tens of millions of elderly people have kids and grandkids who won't speak to them. There's going to be an epidemic of estranged family is over this and it's going to be a rather defining cultural phenomenal of our time. Large parts of an entire generation are clinging to backwards views even at the cost of destroying their own family's