fwiw: i want a healthy marriage and kids twitter.com/antihero_kate/
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one of the last times i talked about this i got one of my perennial haters implying it must be some kind of creepy sex thing on my part which uh goes to show you,,, i guess,,,
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“he wants to reproduce like literally every ancestor of literally every human alive, what is he, some kinda fuckin perv”
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when i was growing up in the '00s the culture war battle lines felt like
🟦 dem = atheism, sexual freedom, gay marriage, drugs
🟥 rep = christian (the bad kind), sex for reproduction only, gays bad, drugs bad
so "marriage and kids" was conservative, hence uncool
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then something else happened i don't feel like i have a ton of clarity on, but something like, millennials as an entire generation froze and stagnated in adolescence and collectively failed to grow up, maybe ultimately due to economic hopelessness idk
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i was gonna keep going with a wildly conjectural analysis but fuck it it's poll time
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poll 1 of 2: what's your ~gender | do you want to or already have kids?
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It wasn't economic hopelessness, and it wasn't millennials per se - it was a specific social class of them.
I went to a rural, public high school and lots of my classmates, the ones who would be dismissed as "normies" ended up with houses and kids.
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This is one reason I generally avoid millenial griping - I see my life as, for better or worse, the product of my own decisions. Yes, I did receive toxic narratives from my parents, teachers and ambient culture - but I could have rejected them.
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something did happen but I think it's gonna be a few more years before we have the full picture of it. Historic changes have been afoot for a while now, but the full shape isn't yet clear.
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I wonder if part of it is related to the rise of casual dating where saying on your Tinder profile or whatever that you're interested in marriage & kids comes off as "intense"