More dataisdepressing than dataisbeautiful

    • killingspark@feddit.org
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      South Korea has one of the worst reproduction rates of the world, caused by women deciding to not choose a man to spend their life with but to live their own life. Which apparently causes men to freak out and go conservative

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        It’s almost as if these “traditional conservative values” have something to do with women having less agency in their lives.

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          Nono you see only with a strong man a woman is free to be a real woman! Free to look pretty, get pregnant, make the house tidy and cook delicious food. The things women enjoy!

          /s Just in case I wasn’t being over the top enough to make this obvious sarcasm a

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        I recall someone saying in India gay men are more acceptable because it removes a rival. Lesbian are a eldritch horror as they removed 2 mens dream of a wife. Loneliness turns people into monster’s.

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      I think a factor is just S Korea’s working class being squeezed that much harder than many other places. They’re calling it the “gender war” but it’s all just people being forced to live in unbearable conditions while getting more and more isolated from each other.