Barren, Angry Older Sisters Jealous of Younger Sisters With Kids

[Nolecbo]

Just to clarify: my observations are based around women who graduated high school around 1994-97 (Gen X) as opposed to the ones who graduated 2002-2003 (Millenials).

I think you are right. The Gen X women got a double push on their hamster wheel:

1) They grew up when all their aunts were paired off. Spinsterhood was an existential threat.

2) They were told over and over 'there is someone for everyone' or the religious version 'as god made them he matched them'. Think of how insidious these phrases are. Essentially they say 'you can bring any package to the SMP and you will get what you want."


Their younger sisters grew up watching their older sisters NOT pair off. They witnessed the awkward holiday conversations, they saw their sisters pine away while denying that they needed a man. Suddenly 'there is someone for everyone' seemed to have A LOT of caveats, and they did what every human does - they responded to incentives.

 

[MrLemon]

So it's no surprise, in fact completely predictable, that millennial girls are rejecting Feminism at a dizzying pace. Modern young women are submissive and want hubbies who will take care of them.

Sounds nice, but I'm not seeing any of that here. I live in a SWPL city with two major university campuses, mostly hang out with the 18-30 uni-educated crowd. I see lots of drinking, travelling and saving the world aspirations, but zero traditional ones. I honestly can't remember the last time I meet one who can cook either.

Perhaps they talk a good game, but their actions reveal something else. It's like some study I saw recently which says how millennial men all want to get married much more than Gen X. Well I don't see any of those guys - my peers - preparing for marriage! The majority are underemployed and don't look like they're buying a house any time soon. But I'm sure they'd say "oh i'd like to get married one day". Hell I'm actually anti-marriage yet that's exactly what I tell people when asked!

Might be. My sample set is admittedly very small and preselected.

No matter what, finding a half way decent wife candidate is a difficult task. The quality just isn't there.

 

[Onto]

The best way to know if the times are a changing is to see what story is being told in the media (News, Movies, TV shows, advertising). The artists are the antennas for the race and reflect what is already rife in the culture (zeitgeist), and the media further panders to it.

If we watch movies, TV shows, advertising and books from the 40s onward, feminism was foreshadowed long before it became the accepted gold standard.

That said, life is cyclical, and feminism won't last because it's a reactionary answer to women not feeling fulfilled. Instead of developing into a higher-level form of feminine, they went on the path of becoming an undeveloped, lower-level form of the masculine.

I suspect the pendulum will again swing the other way to get rid of feminism, but it won't come from women. It will come from men, and it may be a reactionary answer again.

Time will tell, but to keep updated on it, look to all forms of media and what is being espoused.

 

[Frost]

Here's an epiphany I had a few days ago.

I have a female friend named Mel. She's my age (28). Unlike a lot of women here age, Mel still looks great. She has a great career, money, health, and in general is still a pretty good catch. She just got engaged to a cool guy.

I have another friend, Lindsay. She's also 28, but life has not been so kind to her. Over the past three years she has dropped from an ~8.5 to about a 4, partly because of some weight gain, but mostly just the ravages of time. She used to be quite hot and got banged out by some cool guys (such as yours truly) so her standards remain unreasonable. In other words, she's on a one-way train to meowtown.

For women, delaying marriage is status signalling. Delaying marriage communicates that a woman is confident her beauty will persist in her early middle age, and that she will be able to provide for herself with a high-status career. Young men take physical risks to show off to each other, young women take the reproductive risk of delaying marriage.

 

[samsamsam]

For women, delaying marriage is status signalling. Delaying marriage communicates that a woman is confident her beauty will persist in her early middle age, and that she will be able to provide for herself with a high-status career. Young men take physical risks to show off to each other, young women take the reproductive risk of delaying marriage.

First of all, thanks for the share. It is an interesting comparison between two women in the same range.

If I may offer a slightly different perspective. It could mean she has poor decision making skills, and inability to process data properly. Maybe not so much confidence as delusional. Granted women are not considered the thinking gender between the two (or the several now given all the gender talk on the internet these days - there is male or female - thanks for playing). But some women get it. Most don't.

 

[kdolo]

For women, delaying marriage is status signalling}
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But some women get it. Most don't.

Exactly. For women, delaying marriage is plain stupid - i.e. delusional.

As we have discussed here many times, a woman does NOT gain status with her career( generally)...... since most men could care less.....