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Or it could be that people are lying less about having sex?
When I was younger I was kind of ashamed if I didn't have a "sex life" ... for guys this was way more intense and they all lied all the time about being players. It was very funny and obvious.
I have this very half-baked idea for some kind of absurdly woke not-for-profit matching making service.
It'd be called "Auntie"
You'd pour your heart out to a panel of certified aunties, they'd take some notes and give you the phone number of a nice lesbian or guy or gal or person. (or whatever is appropriate)
The prestige of the organization would be the success of the matches they make.
In most human cultures matchmaking is kind of important and not run by corporations.
It's disturbing how it can be a "dangerous" idea for some people.
I don't think you sound weak at all. Having a whole aspect of your social self that you can't really talk about normally with your family is hard. And building meaningful connections with people you don't know takes time and is also hard.
“I had kids with this man and then he got overwhelmed by what it takes to parent and turned into an additional child to take care of”
Tale as old as time.
Being a parent is a lot.
I have not read this! Thank you for letting me know about it. I'm a huge fan of "insect parade" murals from Japan... but never dug much deeper than that.
I just had the nightmare image of having all of these politicians in a kindergarten class where we'd learn things like taking turns, sharing, saying thank you, listening, stealing is wrong...
Divorce is sometimes the right thing to do. And a low divorce rate could be a bad thing if people were feeling financially, or emotionally "trapped" in bad marriages.
But the rates are way down, it's one many remarkable social shifts that doesn't get talked about very much.
In my social circle there are very few divorces, but there are also not as many marriages as I think my mom might have seen.
Yeah, that's totally false. We live in a golden age of fidelity and commitment.
The secret? Only "commit" if you really want to.
If people start getting married at younger ages again the divorce rate will go back up.
Unless they make women property again and I don't even think I can totally rule that one out at this point.
The bitter irony of the "family is being destroyed" crowd destroying families by trying to ban gay marriage, scapegoating and persecuting trans people, deporting parts of perfectly happy families over minor paperwork errors or nothing...
I almost don't like to point out hypocrisy any more because to do so implies some set of shared vales and a capacity for caring that simply isn't there.
But I am very upset about all of these "attacks on the family" and how "the family is being destroyed"
I wonder, if like crime, if you asked people if divorce is a big problem if people would still overestimate it?
The fall in the divorce rate presents a problem for conservatives who want to talk about how "the family is being destroyed" (which family? how?)
But I wonder if people still think that a large number of marriages are ending in divorce.
All through the 80s and early 90s the news was dominated by stories about the "divorce epidemic" and "single moms" also "latch-key kids"
Then something shifted and I think people are less likely to get married due to outside pressure and social expectations, and more likely to do it because they just really like being married. (That's why I did it. 10/10 best choice ever.)
In fact the "young people are having less sex" stat is normally reported alongside similar stats showing smoking tobacco and drinking are less popular.
I've only once seen it alongside the marriage stat... which is odd isn't it? At least if you were expecting reporting to reflect "traditional values."
I also suspect some young people aren't dating or getting married or even going on vacation or having a drink ... because they are BROKE and working their fingers to the bone to survive.
This is a question for the younger adults. Those in your 20s and 30s. There have been a few surveys and articles about how "young people are having less sex" and "young people aren't getting married"
And then some people will say there is a "loneliness epidemic"
How real is this? Are these things even connected?
There are fewer marriages but also far fewer divorces which, to me, kind of sounds like a good thing?
But I rarely hear about the low divorce rate in this context.
Look at those cute drones.
You can tell a male ant because mostly they will have wings and a comically small head.
IDK. I think no one would know what he was even talking about. It wouldn't make anyone mad, but it wouldn't make anyone care.
I do know that with "open response" polls even a small collection of duplicate answers gets a lot of attention.
Eight people mentioning "corrupt lawyers" would be enough to at least waste hours of some consultants time trying to understand what it was.
The data driven campaign is run on a knife edge. They trust the stats they create too much and don't listen to their statisticians when we say "could be noise" nearly enough... which was another reason I gave up on that.
Part of the reason I care about polling so much is I have worked in political polling and for a moment it looked like an exciting career. I could use my skill in mathematics and data to do something powerful and positive.
I love the puzzle of designing a good poll, the challenges of creating random samples. The analysis of the data.
But, I'm not enough of a campy Democratic cheerleader to really make a living. The next step in the career ladder was before me and I couldn't take it.
It would be more funny but I think it might risk tipping them off that it's fake.
"what if they see your posts here and find out it's fake"
If anyone on that campaign can find the fediverse? I'd be mildly impressed. Very mildly ... that's kind of part of the game.
