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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Forbes‏Verified account @Forbes Feb 9

      The rate of millennial women choosing to become stay-at-home-moms is on the rise. Bad work-life balance and lack of flexibility may be to blame: http://on.forbes.com/6012DP1KE pic.twitter.com/skh0GNvBUB

      965 replies 803 retweets 1,662 likes
    2. BRIGITTE PRABHU‏ @BrigittePrabhu Feb 9
      Replying to @Forbes

      Why on earth bother to have children, then leave them with someone else all day

      8 replies 12 retweets 287 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Feb 10
      Replying to @BrigittePrabhu @Forbes

      Because it's not all day. People only usually work about 40 hours a week. There's another 80 to spend at home with loved ones.

      9 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    4. Wolf Hornét™‏ @WolfHornet Feb 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose @BrigittePrabhu @Forbes

      Actually, I hope to be a father some day and can't imagine not having the most possible time with my kids. Crazy to think that women wouldn't want that x10.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Feb 10
      Replying to @WolfHornet @BrigittePrabhu @Forbes

      You might feel differently when you actually have them. They're lovely & I'd die for mine but humans of both sexes often do need to spend a significant amount of time doing something else or they go mad. We have family needs & intellectual/vocational/professional needs.

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    6. Wolf Hornét™‏ @WolfHornet Feb 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose @BrigittePrabhu @Forbes

      "vocational/professional needs"? Very few people actually work a job they like. But it sounds like you've bought into the corporate propaganda so I don't want to shatter the illusion you keep telling yourself.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Feb 10
      Replying to @WolfHornet @BrigittePrabhu @Forbes

      Well, if there isn't actually anything intellectual or creative or professional you're actually passionate about, I could understand your feeling this way. I was a nurse and then a historian and now a political writer, all of which are very interesting.

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Feb 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose @WolfHornet and

      But it doesn't need to be anything major. Many of my friends took part-time jobs waitressing or in supermarkets to get out and have a break and spend some time talking to adults. It prevented them getting depressed and lonely.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Feb 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose @WolfHornet and

      Happiness goes down when we have children and rises again when we get our lives back. You might think you'd find full-time fatherhood rewarding & maybe you would but you might find you want to get back to work and have the opportunity to think abt something else & be productive

      6:23 PM - 10 Feb 2018
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        2. Culpability Jones‏ @ShineboxHukster Feb 11
          Replying to @HPluckrose @WolfHornet and

          You ain’t seen nothin yet. Wait till your kids are teenagers. What a freakin pain in the ass. They’re like biologically programmed for unhelpfulness & greedy thoughtless consumption of your last precious resources. But I love them dearly despite the angina they trigger.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Feb 11
          Replying to @ShineboxHukster @WolfHornet and

          Mine is now 13. You are quite right.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Wolf Hornét™‏ @WolfHornet Feb 11
          Replying to @HPluckrose @BrigittePrabhu @Forbes

          Yikes. Well it looks like the technocratic order has you right where it wants you. Hopefully some day you can get rid of your children and get back the life they took from you. Clearly you can't think about anything else when they're around. Holy shit are you lost. Good luck!

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