I don't think it's basal in David Hackett Fischer rootstock cultural terms, you know? it's an innovation, a malign one.
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Is this a 20th century mass media thing or a post 19th amendment?
aug 30, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I honestly can't tell. my gut sense is that it's resentment about potential mothers competing for breadwinner jobs -- e.g., Heinlein's psychotic reaction to his wife working -- but it seems to be driven by adult children now? I dunno, man. one of those tells I wasn't raised to American standard.
aug 30, 2025, 4:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah. This feels like a type of reaction to the post 1980 economy, but I also think it has to be more than just that.
aug 30, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view