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The phrasing of 'male delusion' was a red flag; if you check op's blog by searching 'trans' she's a terf/transphobe.

I wish people would stop undermining otherwise good points by conflating social power structures with individual beliefs; plenty of cis women enforce this shit too. The only people I remember being pushy about it when I was a child who said I didn't want to have kids or be pregnant were in fact cis women.

Eternally tired of the collective panic over "low" birth rates. Somehow the countries that are most affected by this malady just happen to be the ones where women and girls have at the very least some semblance of autonomy in their lives. Not even men want kids, not when they are actually made to participate in childcare. No amount of propaganda or fincancial insentives are going to raise these numbers, it simply goes against the human instinct of self-preservation.

The birth rate is not low. It only seems that way because it has been artificially high for thousands of years. But none of these economists, politicians etc. are willing to discuss this. Then they would have to admit that their grandmothers were forced into birthing 7+ children back-to-back by their grandfathers who practically held them hostage, not due to some ✨natural ancestral traditional divine feminine calling✨ Truth is that motherhood has always been a raw deal forced onto women through rape and enslavement. But that shatters the male delusion.

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.... a quick search for what percent of (adult) u.s. citizens have traveled outside of the u.s. suggests it's closer to 3/4 of the population (at least once) (participants were "recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection.", so it seems like it's not sample bias)

since moving here ive noticed europeans have no concept of how few americans ever leave USA. every american tourist youve met is of an economic crust that is vastly unobtainable to the other like. 85% generously. no matter what you have believed i can guarantee this. even getting to canada isnt really a possibility and the mexico-US border is highly controlled and militarized.

to put it into perspective. a ~2 hour flight from london to warsaw is like. 30 to 45 USD?

and a 2 hour flight from one US city to another would be about 130 USD

it was very cheap to fly here. i make over 100k USD now and i dont know if ill ever be able to afford leaving. if that gives you an idea of how prohibitive travel is here. i havent even touched on how the US has Zero guaranteed holidays by the govt. many people here go years without ever having an entire week off of work

this has had a like. massive impact on American Brain and they dont even know it because travel isnt even a consideration economically. they dont even know how much more vacation time european countries have guaranteed