February 15, 2024
"In 2003, the typical female pet owner spent much more time socializing with humans than playing with her cat or dog."
"By 2022, this flipped, and the average woman with a pet now spends more time 'actively engaged' with her pet than she spends hanging out face-to-face with fellow humans on any given day...."
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The Atlantic didn’t seem to care when it promoted government covid policies.
This has been going on in Tijuana for decades.
Cuba too, if Coppola is to be believed...
the majority of breeding age women consider 80% of men to be unattractive or Ugly..
45% of breeding age women will be childless by 2030..
cat women stay home with their cats..
The West is committing Genetic Suicide.. The Future belongs to those who show up
Don't Worry.. YOU won't need to learn arabic...You'll be dead and gone, without anyone to remember you
Meanwhile..
The MAJORITY of black babies in NYC, were Murdered by they mothers..
The MAJORITY of white women aren't so crude.. They use birthcontrol (and morning after pills)
The West is DYING.. NO ONE will remember us.. NO ONE
a few more serious questions...
WHY does society only draft men?
WHY are there ANY privileges for women?
WHY are there benefits for marriage?
The answer to ALL of those questions is: FOR More Children (say, "more soldiers" if you want).
IF women AREN'T going to have kids.. WHAT USE ARE THEY????
Women in 2022, if they would come out of self-imposed isolation, often looked like they just rolled out of bed. I remember being stunned that many young single women in their prime dress-up dating years looked disheveled, bloated, and sloppy. The mental health damage of the lockdowns was severe for socially-mined people, and the most severe among women.
This pet owner analysis relies on statistical cherry picking: find an outlying data point (pandemic years) and then compare it to an ordinary time period. Ignore this useless research. Shame it.
Tho' I lost my dog years ago (haven't been in a position to replace) I still walk the off-road paths & trails we did. Over 50% of the people I meet and converse with are ladies of all ages walking with their dog(s). I'd venture a guess most of the "study" focused on an urban population.
While the Atlantic didn't want me to read all the article, I was able to read enough to see they referenced Professor Putnam in discussing that American social engagement had been waning since the 70's. I'm assuming this is the same professor Putnam who published work I think in the 2000's that indicated that as the Diversity of an area increased the level of social engagement, civic engagement, and social trust decreased. The Downside of Diversity.
As diversity had been driving down social engagement in areas, I suspect this was dramatically exacerbated by Social Media starting in the 2000's as well. Social Media can provide an inferior substitute for actual face-to-face social interaction, however it appears more attractive to many because it is much easier than going out and meeting with other folks, and it let's you curate your social environment much more than normal social gatherings.
The cherry on top of all this was COVID and the lockdowns that sent many into isolation. The result is highly atomized and lonely people. This is bad for the individual people as well as the The People as a whole. If the people are weakened it makes them harder to organize and more susceptible to actions by other groups, like governments, political action groups, media companies, and other corporations. I have yet to meet a person who thinks it is good for large financial companies to be buying up residential real estate in towns, yet Blackrock and others keep buying up neighborhoods, and atomized people are unable to do anything about it.
Social progress and dysfunction. That said, keep women affordable, available, reusable, and taxable, and the "burden" of evidence sequestered in sanctuary States. #ToxicMasculinity #Feminism #SharedResponsibility
Sociopolitical psychosis with medical adjuvants. You've come a long way, baby... fetus... baby. #HateLovesAbortion
The idea of the "American Community" - if it ever existed - has been destroyed by narcissists.
Half the country is girding themselves for a fight while the other half are having trouble dealing with the revelation that their govt and every institution they trusted lied to them.
All they want now is the Soma of cute cat videos and idiots dancing on titkok.
Only one will prevail. Not both.
Enjoy your cats.
Physical proximity was once the primary factor determining social networking. Once that relationship collapsed, people learned to negotiate public space with eyes averted, indifferent to the accidents of propinquity.
Less eye contact is also related to our elite 's decision to transition from a high trust society to the increasingly low trust society we now inhabit.
Which may explain the rise of 'furries'.
How do they know this?
One wrong phrase and you are arrested, ostracized, banned and cancelled.
Blogger Leland said...
The Atlantic didn’t seem to care when it promoted government covid policies.
Perfect first comment. That was the point to COVID. Easier to rule the masses if they are separated and divided.
And to think Hillary's 2016 baby blue campaign slogan was "Stronger Together".
They extrapolated a factoid about all women pet owners to everyone? Follow the (poor) science!!
They extrapolated a factoid about all women pet owners to everyone?
Diversity (e.g. racism, sexism) is a dogmatic belief exercised through inferential logic to sample human lives in color blocs.
Follow the (poor) science!!
Sociopolitical science.
This article hit so many topics, it didn't make any good points.
The Covid lock down stressed relationships, and people are still in kind of a funk.
Many Americans feel like we are in the end times. Some think that if Trump gets elected, he will bring back The Handmaid's Tale. Others think we are living in a kleptocracy where the elites are running us into the ground.
Decades ago, the multiplex theater usually had at least one movie that most people in a group could agree on. That isn't true anymore.
Going out and doing something has gotten expensive.
Social media is ruining teenagers, but parents don't want to say no to getting their kid a smart phone.
Didn't we used to talk about topics that weren't politics? People not interested in politics talk about what they saw on TikTok, and that's worse.
The article could have been about me. When I retired, I got a beagle. I've got friends and family, and we keep in touch, but most days, I'm happy puttering around the house, going for walks and maybe watching a movie. The social fabric is somebody else's problem.
The average woman has a lot of growing up to do.
Gusty Winds,
And to think Hillary's 2016 baby blue campaign slogan was "Stronger Together".
I've always thought Hillary used that to demonstrate that she knows what fascism is. Or at least what fasces are.
Hope it gives her rabies.
"The average woman has a lot of growing up to do."
That's hard to do when their natural solpsism places everyone beneath them
Social fitness is subjective, circumstantial. Evolutionary fitness is objective, universal, scientific: observable, reproducible, viable. Friends with "benefits", political congruence, and the wicked solution are dysfunctional choices that engender social, cognitive dissonance.
A handmade tale to force the modern model.
Really! By 2022 after two years of COVID nonsense people statistically were spending more time alone? Fucking genius! Was this writer born yesterday?
Based on what I’ve been reading, I have the sense that people with lefty acquaintances have to be on their toes when interacting with them lest one inadvertently say something that, sufficiently twisted, might sound as though one’s support of lefty causes is less than 100%. Does this contribute to the disengagement noted in the article?
My friends on both sides of the political divide know by now that I don’t give a damn about their opinions of my politics. As long as they regard me as honest, reliable, and trustworthy I’m happy. Results in fewer friends, but better ones.
To be classified as a pet, do these creatures have to be four-legged? Might there be some bipedal pets? Or "pets"?
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