I feel like if you told an internet user in, say, 2007 that there were online crusades against NSFW fandom art they'd assume it was evangelicals or something, not superlibs who preach about tolerance. It's a good example of how these politics have boiled down to nothing but reflexive censorship.
TGWTG Nostalgia Chick / Lindsay Ellis / TheDudette - aka Hotdogs in face girl
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LionoRaptor
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Today I found out that America has no mandatory paid maternity leave.
WTF. Every developed and developing country in the world has a form of maternity leave.
Why the fuck are feminists/women not up in arms about this ? This shit is nuclear.
WTF. Every developed and developing country in the world has a form of maternity leave.
Why the fuck are feminists/women not up in arms about this ? This shit is nuclear.
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Libfeminism in the US prefers going after large, controversial, vaguely defined problems because they don't require a lot of hard work or coordinated organising to deal with, and they can piss off conservatives by shouting about their vagina. You can go out and have a protest about slut shaming or abortion or pussy grabbing and people will get excited about it because it's a big abstract thing which gets people mad, but tackling something like the lack of paid maternity leave would require knowledge of the subject and a hard look at the way american companies treat their female employees. It would also mean adressing that fact that women take more time off work than men due to maternity, which would harm the argument about the pay gap.
Plus, companies can say 'we support a woman's right to choose' or 'the president is a pussy grabbing douchebag'! and not lose anything, but supporting paid maternity leave would mean having to actually pay their workers reaosnably, so there's less corporate support for the maternity pay cause and thus less money being channelled into organising.
There are feminists in the US who care about real, serious, concrete women's issues and inequalities like this, but their protests don't attract nearly as much attention because the issues aren't sexy or divisive. Women not getting paid maternity is just a sad reality of the way that companies and employers piss on the workers, especially blue collar workers, and you can't make a sassy sign or knit a pussy hat about that. Feminists should work with the unions to make a stink about the maternity leave. They might have more of a chance, then.
LionoRaptor
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Thanks for enlightening me.
While America as a whole does not have a mandatory paid maternity leave. Pretty much every company has paid maternity leave in their employment contract for women. Its kind of like how most companies had a healthcare plan before it became mandatory. This also changes by state and localities. Most cities have mandatory maternity leave laws as do many states.
So in reality, its not actually that much of a problem. Frankly, making it mandatory on a federal level would create more problems, higher costs and invite more regulatory abuse than if we left it as is (as we saw with Obamacare). Leaving it to the states and localities allows them to make their own decisions for their own different economic situations.
Why would an American Empty-Egg-Carton Feminazi need maternity leave?
PeriodicTrouble
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She's talked about possibly being a parent over 35 and the therapist said it would be a "geriatric pregnancy".
https://archive.md/8rb6S
Easy there. Apparently we can't even decide what or who a woman is these days. It would be humorous watching the complete farce of troons applying for (and Dems probably approving) "maternity leave" for the African kids that they rent...errr...adopt. But at some point we WILL run out of money.
Fertility in females has a certain "use it or lose it" quality outside of the menopause hard cap. If Lindsey had had 2-3 kids before 35, it would be considered relatively normal, but this would be her first time prorating for her instance of fetus deletus (which, as I understand, can cause fertility problems going forward by itself.)
OFC, this is just yet more of feminism reaping what it's sown; women are not men, who can under normal circumstances become fathers basically until they die. If you want your own kids, you're on the clock, and if you decide to put your e-begging "career" before that, you shouldn't actually be surprised to wake up one morning and discover that you've run out of time.
Hellbound Hellhound
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"Geriatric pregnancy" is actually the term that used to be used within the medical profession to describe pregnancies in women over the age of 35, although I don't believe the term is used anymore. I'm actually surprised that a therapist would choose to bring it up, although I suppose if you've got a patient who's prone to calling you an asshole to their social media following, I could imagine why they might want to.
French Slut
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Pretty sure the drinking would be a far bigger hurdle than being in her mid 30s.
This woman always drove me crazy and I never understood why. Maybe it's because she got the moniker of "Nostalgia Chick" but is incredbily dull and low energy (I expected more, I guess?) Maybe it's the fact that her fans treated her like she was this deeply-intellectual, analytical reviewer, but I thought most of her takes were just pendantic, cunty, and surface-level. I love me a movie reviewer who harps on every little thing, but she was so soulless about it. I stayed away from any video she was in.
I didn't even know she was a retarded third-wave feminist back in the day, I just found her boring and unfunny.
I didn't even know she was a retarded third-wave feminist back in the day, I just found her boring and unfunny.
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Random Internet Person
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Well, the things we’ve seen in this thread have mostly been what you said: basically posturing as an intellectual for saying that there’s more merit in pop culture than one realizes. There’s also the part where she’s always in the same left wing progressive social justice circles and all the arrogance that comes with it. And maybe a little passive aggressiveness towards those she hates, including Doug Walker who she feels “held her back” and gave her a time where she felt “miserable”.
Also, we reached 300 pages.
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Lindsay will never stop being a pandering embarrassment to penis-havers (in this case obv I mean the trannies so mad about that Singal dude)the irony
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"harassment is not okay unless my clique does it"
edit: This is about Jesse Singal
Bloody bunny
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Omg sjws will fucking report people and lie and turn on their own What news.
I agree. Lindsay only “works” a few hours a week at the absolute most so she could easily manage having a family. However being pregnant means not drinking for nine months so that’s a dealbreaker for her.
Arthur Morgan
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And if she's as successful an author as she likes to imagine herself as, she could just live off her royalties as she raises the little ones.
I think she does want kids but worries that she will be looked down on by her fellow SJWs if she becomes a house wife.
Random Internet Person
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One problem: she needs to make enough in royalties for that to happen.
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