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Raising children didn’t become controversial until feminism convinced women that the best life mimicked men and prioritized work over family.
There’s a quirky couple’s ritual that happens daily all over America. A wife will excitedly tell her husband how much she saved on an item she just bought. “It was half off!” she says with deep, satisfied pride. The response, often offered with a raised eyebrow, “But how much was it?” His follow-up, sometimes said out loud is, “Wouldn’t we have saved more money if you hadn’t bought it?” But for the wife, the big thing was the discount. It is girl math.
This isn’t the only girl math to which we’ve become accustomed in the U.S. Most women in America live with some form of the odd calculus sold to us by feminism. We believe, unwittingly, that we can do everything we want, all at once, without any trade-offs or negative consequences. We can have it all! Eventually, however, in one way or another, the pain of this girl math hits home. Sooner or later, women realize that we can’t have it all.
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There’s a quirky couple’s ritual that happens daily all over America. A wife will excitedly tell her husband how much she saved on an item she just bought. “It was half off!” she says with deep, satisfied pride. The response, often offered with a raised eyebrow, “But how much was it?” His follow-up, sometimes said out loud is, “Wouldn’t we have saved more money if you hadn’t bought it?” But for the wife, the big thing was the discount. It is girl math.
This isn’t the only girl math to which we’ve become accustomed in the U.S. Most women in America live with some form of the odd calculus sold to us by feminism. We believe, unwittingly, that we can do everything we want, all at once, without any trade-offs or negative consequences. We can have it all! Eventually, however, in one way or another, the pain of this girl math hits home. Sooner or later, women realize that we can’t have it all.
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Motherhood Only Feels Like A 'Penalty' Because Of Feminism
Raising children didn’t become an issue until feminism convinced women that the best life mimicked men and prioritized work over family.
