2d ago

Sweet Spot

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I would still take my life over my mom's. Things were not good for women back then.
- Things can always backslide
- Did she starve to death? Because that’s our current timeline
  
  It’s getting comparable… women are being charged with murder for totally natural miscarriages. Imagine ending up in prison for decades for something you had absolutely no control over.
  And women are also dying from preventable issues with pregnancy, because it is illegal for doctors to remove fetuses even when they are a direct threat to the mother’s life (ectopic) or even totally dead in the first place.
  America is becoming exceedingly hostile to anyone not white, cis, and male.
  
  If it makes you feel any better it still feels pretty hostile to me as well.
  
  I agree that things were bad back then but my point is things are about to become much much worse. We will all be looking back wishing we could go back in time. Our future is bleak and you’ll be lucky to not starve to death in the coming years.
  
  America alone is going to be in immense economic pain starting some time within the next 3-9 months. Shipping into America from China is dropping off a cliff, with a nearly 40% all sources drop in port activity on the west coast at this time. Seattle alone has seen a 60+% drop in Chinese shipping.
  2025 is going to be an absolute economic bloodbath for most any American citizen inside America.
  
  Well she was around before birth control was legal or widely available, and before abortion was legal. Yeah I agree the US is getting more hostile but nobody at my work is asking me to get the coffee, or saying women can't do the job. And she raised 4 kids while doing a dissertation, widowed when the youngest was not even a teen yet.
  I don't think now is great but it's better in a lot of ways.
  
  There's a lot of people who resent that things ever changed for women, and have spent every moment since trying to put things back to the way they were. I've worked for a lot of them. I've definitely been expected to get coffee, been told not to speak to male coworkers unless absolutely necessary, been told that I dressed too well and it was tempting male coworkers to sin, been told there was something mentally wrong with me because I didn't "take care of myself" by wearing more makeup, been blamed for work conflicts I wasn't involved in because I should've been the peacemaker. All in the last 10 years. But, yeah, I'm glad I can use birth control legally.
  
  Holy crap! That is dreadful. I have not worked anywhere that backwards. "Not to speak to male coworkers?". Did you work for the Mike Pence campaign or something? What did the other women in the workplace think?
  I did get paid less than the guys I worked with in the early 1990s, literally because they were men. But not since. We have female VP of Finance, female Financial Controller, I'd say it's 75/25 still in the top so not equal, but about half our operational managers are women, and I work in sports, that doesn't seem a wildly progressive industry.

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