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it seems to be a trope that traditional asian families w only a daughter tend to implode. the mother cannot live vicariously through the conquests of the absent son. the father cannot make sense of his suffering without an heir

even the sons are affected as the daughters try their best to be sons and alleviate their parent’s suffering. this creates purely masculine forces competing in the world creating the weird situation of many single men & women actively seeking and actively failing.

they each don’t see the other as respectively masculine/feminine enough.

this creates a meaning crisis as both generations are stuck hoping for some mechanism to produce grandchildren to unblock the flowhttps://twitter.com/dorrismccomics/status/948649428113600513 …

the core (erroneous imo) idea that creates this tension is a view of scarcity. most secular masculine games are like football. intentionally complex and zero sum.