The Love Warriors
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Our friend Heather is back in the news. I found out that she is a parent in Finley’s soccer league…
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@Jolly said in The Love Warriors:
Did we just not have as many nuts decades ago or do they just have bigger megaphones nowadays?
Bigger megaphones, faster communication, more people who feel they need to share their opinion and more people who feel personally attached to debates that often have zero impact on their life.
Call me sexist or naive, and I know each decade had its share of problems, but decades ago as you said.... there seemed to be more of a social order. Women stayed with the kids and the home, men were leaders in the community, and when conflict arose... something tells me men handle things differently than women.
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@89th said in The Love Warriors:
Call me sexist or naive, and I know each decade had its share of problems, but decades ago as you said.... there seemed to be more of a social order. Women stayed with the kids and the home, men were leaders in the community, and when conflict arose... something tells me men handle things differently than women.
That is naive because that didn't happen in your lifetime. When we were growing up the idea of a dual income household was very much established already, outliers notwithstanding.
And men weren't all leaders in their community, plenty were alcoholics and gambling addicts and everything in between.
Watch Andy Griffith and pretend it's documentary if you like, that's not how it was. Comforts and conveniences aside, we're really just trading problems for their newer models—for which we do not yet have a solution.
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in The Love Warriors:
@89th said in The Love Warriors:
Call me sexist or naive, and I know each decade had its share of problems, but decades ago as you said.... there seemed to be more of a social order. Women stayed with the kids and the home, men were leaders in the community, and when conflict arose... something tells me men handle things differently than women.
That is naive because that didn't happen in your lifetime. When we were growing up the idea of a dual income household was very much established already, outliers notwithstanding.
And men weren't all leaders in their community, plenty were alcoholics and gambling addicts and everything in between.
Watch Andy Griffith and pretend it's documentary if you like, that's not how it was. Comforts and conveniences aside, we're really just trading problems for their newer models—for which we do not yet have a solution.
Fair enough. Just seems there are plenty of annoying Karens around these days. It makes my ears hurt.
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@89th said in The Love Warriors:
Maybe it's the rejection of the value of faith, family, traditions, and community. Maybe I'm turning into a @Jolly apostle.
That I believe is true. But it's important to remember that we've never had to deliberately choose to have those things like we do now.
For most people, abandoning these things wasn't a conscious choice—they just have lifestyles that now would require them to put in extra work to maintain them, and we've never been in that position before. No one had to work on being part of a community, we couldn't avoid it if we wanted to. These are all slightly new problems.
