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But why?! The USA is a paradise for women! Isn’t that what Margaret Atwood taught us!?
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Send me your thick fit ones.
If this is a suprise you’re a fucking idiot
Who can blame them?
I wouldnt mind moving out of the US.
I’m not a woman but it’s been my dream for years. Now that I have a child it’s my goal to help him escape.
Yeah, I would too if I went on a road trip across the country and gained and lost human rights as I crossed state borders.
Women wanting to travel is nothing new. These surveys aren’t worth a good or bad poop.
This is talking about migration, not a damned vacation.
Tell me you didn’t read the article and/or understand it.
Women wanting to travel is nothing new.
Well done, Skippy!
The irony is the Conservatives wanted women’s rights removed and have them back at home to make white babies, because they fear the mixed culture. And they may now be left with a country mostly made of men, which will obviously shrink their baby birthing plan.
this forced birthing thing sort of reminds me of one child policy in a way… ironically no one is thinking about how this will impact men long term. women are just supposed to fulfill this need for companionship and reproduction without any reciprocation, even though everything on this planet, even breathing, is transactional. when we inhale we get oxygen and when we exhale we give CO2. it is physically impossible to get something for nothing in this world. if you want a woman to have your kids, you’ve got to pay her in some way. if you don’t provide for her, and she can’t provide for herself, it is physically impossible for her to have enough calories to produce a child and physically impossible for her to have enough money to raise it. that’s just life. and if you try to arm twist women (or anyone or anything else) into doing the impossible, they’re just going to totally disengage.
Can confirm. Moved from the Midwest and dated a Mexican, family “othered” me from that point onward. That relationship didn’t work out for unrelated reasons but now being with a French, can also confirm we would both love to move to his country, but the place we can make to most positive impact is, unfortunately, here. We don’t plan on having kids because we understand it does truly take a village and that kind of support doesn’t exist in the U.S. especially not now. Breaks my heart because he would make an amazing dad.
“Also older women. And younger men. And older men.”
Someone didn’t read the article. Or look at the graphs. Despite the graphs being at the head of the post.
Can’t imagine why…. So odd…
truly shocking. Who’d have thunk treating a demographic like shit and taking away all their rights would cause them to leave!?
Yeah, I get why women don’t want to live here, particularly in states that have banned abortion. It’s fucked up, and I don’t fault them for abandoning their country.
I do hope enough of us keep fighting, though.
I know, right? That’s obviously not how people really behave!
Well at least somebody is paying attention.
I have a good American friend here in Germany who has a great chance of getting a permanent status and later citizenship. She’s already pretty good at German after 2 years and was offered a permanent local contract. She told me last week she’s probably not taking the offer and going back to the US because she earns more and pays less taxes there. I asked about healthcare cost and all she talked about was how contraception was completely free in her american insurance and she has a copay here, how much less taxes she paid and she didn’t like how the German law handles paternity issues (it’s harder to get out of your obligations if your wife cheated and the kid isn’t yours).
It was so weird. So many American women wish they were in her position and all she talked about was going back to the US due to paternity laws and the 10€ copay on her contraception which made her really angry for some reason.
Yikes. Does she wear a MAGA hat? She sounds like the type.
she didn’t like how the German law handles paternity issues (it’s harder to get out of your obligations if your wife cheated and the kid isn’t yours).
Major red flag for her partner lol
I don’t believe this would be a major opinion by any woman I have ever known. This is likely a fictitious post.
Why? She thinks it should be more in favor of the man and he should be able to easily up and leave anytime after finding out the kid isn’t his.
I guess… But why even care about that unless you plan to cheat? I feel like most people would never even know that’s a thing. There’s really only one reason someone would look that up.
I’m afraid this one reason might be much more common that you seem to think.
Didn’t say it was uncommon
Right, just pointing out that if it’s common then it might be worth caring about even if it doesn’t affect you personally.
Its USA brainwashing, they feel they are fighting the “enemy” by not paying tax. Even though that extra take home pay ends up going to health care, or car expenses due to lack of transit etc.
It comes from the idea that our government is so inherently corrupt that they can’t be trusted to do anything correctly with our money, so people would rather keep their money and spend it on themselves directly.
And I have to say these people are justified, our government doesn’t spend our money on worthwhile things.
I think the systems where people pay higher taxes usually work better, tho.
We don’t even need to raise taxes. All the money we need for social services is in the military budget that hasn’t passed a successful audit this century.
we spend more on healthcare than the military last i checked (but again, no audit on DoD spending so…)
Even so, that’s ~800 billion that could be used for social services and improving lives.
Also if we’re so skint that we can’t afford to take care of the basics…how did we find all that ICE money? After a massive revenue cut, also!
Yeah, we have literally all the money we need to pay for all our social services.
We spend as much as the next 7 largest militaries COMBINED.
It’s such a massive grift, and we can’t touch the military budget because it’s the only form of welfare that works and tons of Americans NEED it.
I’d be fine with our military expenditures if we used them for civil engineering in peacetime… And I guess we would have to stop those pesky undeclared wars as a happy knock on effect.
People are emotional creatures.
People also don’t seem to accept that you often get something for paying taxes. Infrastructure, schools, food inspectors, whatever.
People be stupid, yo! I decided in 1999 I’d never again set foot on US soil because I’d rather pay higher taxes and have a sane society around me.
And now I pay lower taxes than a USAnian and have a sane society around me.
Don’t you miss it sometimes, not living in constant fear that someone with an AR15 could have a bad day near you or your loved ones?
I never did have that fear. I’ve never lived in the USA.
Now if things get much hotter I might have a minor niggling fear that a US bomb will drop on my head, but for now not even Trump and his coterie are stupid enough to let things get that far.
Where is this magical place, if you don’t mind saying? I’d love to live there. :)
Me personally, I live in Wuhan.
Awesome, thanks for answering!
Will the move to Paris, Venice, Lisboa or Amsterdam?
Im looking at amsterdam and barcelona currently
Ooh! Barcelona! Nice choice!
You might consider Portugal as well. Several really nice places there too.
The real shocker is the number of people who don’t.
Im not a woman and im not young but I would love to be somewhere else. Honestly I sorta worry whats happening here is being mirrored elsewhere so in a few years it may not matter.
It’ll get exported faster if we don’t stay and face it. We already have the biggest military in the world, by an order of magnitude; we’re not post-WWI Germany. If fascism takes hold here, the whole world is cooked.
This is our home, not their home. Fuck the fascists.
We aren’t all cowards like the people in charge.
Personally, I consider it a civic duty to help fix the country instead of abandoning it. If all the good people leave, things are gonna get way worse, and it’s gonna start leaking all over the planet.
Unless you can alter laws about corporations, lobbying, and billionaires, the USA is going to be changed by good people staying there. The power of the people is now a facade, you’ll get arrested for domestic terrorism charges or something
I will agree with that statement 100%
however, there’s a caveat where if someone’s personal safety and life are at risk by the state, there’s absolutely no shame in fleeing.
also the “stay and fix your country” is usually a racist dogwhistle. I am assuming you don’t mean it like that. just bringing it up
I’ve been doing that since Clinton and all I see is people clamoring for “centrist” candidates who are now so far right, “center” is right of Nixon.
Is “stay and fix your country” a racist dog whistle? I wouldn’t imagine racists would really consider leaving in the first place.
I believe he meant the racism was in saying that to people to be anti immigration. As in: we don’t want people from mexico coming to america! Stay and fix your own country!
If everyone was like that, wed have little ability to immigrate anywhere
it’s used against immigrants or refugees. “they should stay there and fix their problems”
Ah. Well, considering I’m referring to my own strategy, I think I’m safe.
yhea, I assumed so. didn’t mean to accuse you.
It’s already affecting the planet in extreme ways. I’m with you, we have to stay as long as there’s a chance we can help.
I agree and in the case of the us I think the onus is a bit higher considering our history. Folks were here before us and folks are here because of us and the least we can do is not be a shit show.
True, true. It was “want” to leave though.
Do you always run away from your battles? It’s not about wanting to fight, or get hurt… It’s about wanting a better country, and a better world.
Me? No. I don’t live in a shithole country. I really hope Americans can fix their shit so it stays that way.
I can see that, but if the want to stay eclipses the want to leave, arithmetically I consider that a net “want” to stay.
True, true…
Or would if the could afford it.
Who can blame them? From what I’ve seen out of young men and the rise of the “red pill” culture, women are more objectified than ever IMO
