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Er, what? :crazyeye:
 
I wonder what the purpose of this thread is? Twitter is the place for those who like to tweet.
 
Er, what? :crazyeye:
Precisely

I wonder what the purpose of this thread is? Twitter is the place for those who like to tweet.
Made this thread because I wanted a place to share some of the most *gestures vaguely for want of an appropriate adjective* Twitter threads and posts, though I can understand if you don't want CFC to be inundated with Twitter content.
 
Made this thread because I wanted a place to share some of the most *gestures vaguely for want of an appropriate adjective* Twitter threads and posts, though I can understand if you don't want CFC to be inundated with Twitter content.
Yes, twitter is better for that. If you want a discussion about the content of a particular tweet, that is fine. For example, if you want to discuss the question raised in the OP, that is fine and just needs some appropriate intro to set the stage for discussions.
 
Yes, twitter is better for that. If you want a discussion about the content of a particular tweet, that is fine. For example, if you want to discuss the question raised in the OP, that is fine and just needs some appropriate intro to set the stage for discussions.
Is it okay to discuss the issues raised in the tweets? I already had this typed out and would hate to have it be for nothing. I don't have a Twitter account.


<egregiously-endowed cartoon lady omitted>
I'm reminded of a few years ago when posting on a Handmaid's Tale review channel on YouTube.

Offred (played by Elisabeth Moss) gives up her chance to escape from Gilead with her baby (fathered by Nick, the Waterfords' chauffeur, who is also at least a double, if not a triple agent) because she can't bear to leave without her older daughter, Hannah (who has been "adopted" by another Commander).

Her friend and fellow Handmaid, Emily, takes her place and Offred (real name is June in this version of THT) gives her the baby to take with her to Canada. She tells Emily to find her husband, Luke, who escaped from Gilead already and is in Toronto, and give him the baby (she's sure that Luke will be okay with raising a child who was fathered by another man, though to be fair, neither June nor Nick had a choice about it as their 'babymaking activity' was ordered and witnessed by Mrs. Waterford).

At which point the review channel comments exploded in outrage because once again June didn't take the chance she had to escape, and - this is what had me mindcroggled - they ranted and complained about "How is Emily supposed to take care of a baby that's still breastfeeding? She'll STARVE! DO THEY EVEN HAVE BABY FORMULA IN CANADA???!!!" :eek: :run: :eek: :run: :eek:

At which point I got well and truly fed up at these ignorant American women on that channel who seem to think we still live in igloos here and our technology is still at the level of the 1800s, even though the TV show was shot in Toronto and shows that "Little America" - a portion of Toronto where the Gilead refugees go - has all the modern technology anyone could need.

Baby formula is a thing in most regions of the world. There are some countries that run breast milk banks, where women can donate/sell (according to what local laws may allow) their breast milk to other women who want their infants to have the benefit of breast milk but can't nurse them themselves.

So no, you don't need a wife/doormat with Dolly Parton proportions to have survival, marriage, art, and beauty.
 
So no, you don't need a wife/doormat with Dolly Parton proportions to have survival, marriage, art, and beauty.

Sure, but why risk it?
 
If the discussion is about that tweet, it is fine; we do not want a thread of Twitter posts.
 
Why risk what?

Why risk survival, marriage, art, and beauty by not having a wife/doormat with Dolly Parton proportions?

Obligatory :mischief:
 
I fixed the OP.
 
Why risk survival, marriage, art, and beauty by not having a wife/doormat with Dolly Parton proportions?

Obligatory :mischief:
If I recall correctly, you're a woman. Are you comfortable with being valued only for your exterior qualities and proportions (whatever they might be)? Has anyone chided you for not producing children and staying home to take care of them? I've had that from classmates and even my mother.

I was chastised for this on this very forum, by someone known to many of us who felt put out that I had deprived the world of my offspring, regardless of my reasons for opting not to have children. It's nice that he thought my offspring could have been wonderful, but he completely dismissed my very valid reasons for not reproducing (not that I need any reason other than "I don't want to").

Would you be happy with a partner who saw you as having the social value of a doormat?

Been there, done that in the case of being someone's doormat. As it says in my sig, "I'm not your doormat."

It's not something to joke about for the women who have been in that situation and for whom it was difficult to get out of, whether physically, emotionally, or psychologically.
 
tradwife is deeply fascinating (and naturally, disappointing) because it, like the rest of its sphere, is solely structured from some Ur-incarnation of what you're supposed to be. however, instead of vikings or romans it's 50s vacuum cleaner commercials
 
First of all memes that include the name of the creator have for the most part got to go.

Second, what’s with the Obersalzburg background? I think I can see Martin Bormann’s house.

Third, I don’t want children. Sorry. Society is probably for the better this way.

Fourth, how many numbers will this get to? Wait and see!

Fifth, don’t see anything wrong with the idea of being a homemaker if that’s what they want. Problem nowadays is that it seems like keeping up a household even without children needs a double income.

Sixth, the stoic guy and whatever face woman. Overused term but cringe. Dump it!

Seventh, what is wrong with vacuum cleaner commercials? You want an earworm, listen to this: Mr. Clean jingle.

Eighth, I like the whole ‘50s single-story rambler house thing. 2,500 square feet? Nah dude, 800 is good. But don‘t rope me in to this weird pagan occultism that these memes slightly hint at.
 
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