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tiny_ta commented on Housewives Are One Surprising Solution to “Millennial Burnout” pamelajhobart.com/housewi... · Posted by u/oldschoolib

gustavus · 2 years ago

Does this surprise anyone this has been the way households have been structured for millennia, even among the elite aristocrats of ancient Rome, or Egyptian dynastys there would always the woman was primarily responsible for the running of the home, which despite what it sounds like could be quite a daunting affair, similar on the level of running a small business.

I couldn't do what I do without my wife, she is just as critical to running the household as I am. Honestly how did we convince half of society that it was liberating and freedom to be able to slave away for a corporate wage day in and day out?

tiny_ta · 2 years ago

I highly recommend watching the Indian movie: The great Indian kitchen. It does really offer a different perspective to anyone who believes that a housewife's job is better than a corporate drone's :)

tiny_ta commented on Housewives Are One Surprising Solution to “Millennial Burnout” pamelajhobart.com/housewi... · Posted by u/oldschoolib

2OEH8eoCRo0 · 2 years ago

Like a wage? I think we are all dependent on others either way.

tiny_ta · 2 years ago

It's not quite the same thing though, is it? You can walk away from one employer and go to another as long as you have employ-able skills. It's much harder to walk away from a marriage that is not working out for one and if some financial independence makes it easier to, then so be it!

tiny_ta commented on Doing laundry on campus without a phone naveenarun.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/barbarr

truculent · 2 years ago

Did this article trip anyone else’s “is this GPT?” senses? I thought the prose style was very strange - quite verbose with a lot of redundant descriptors.

tiny_ta · 2 years ago

Reading this was nostalgic for me as this was how we'd write essays in my Indian high school. It's not so strange when we grow up developing our style to look like this :)

tiny_ta commented on FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/pg_1234

basisword · 2 years ago

Very interesting. It sounds like the issue is the healthcare system. When I was a teenager I could make a doctors appointment without my family knowing and without paying anyone or leaving a trace. It’s a side of the US system I hadn’t considered before (lack of privacy) so thanks for explaining it. Great that this will help some people but fixing the system seems much more important than letting people buy medicine OTC without advice and a review of their history.

tiny_ta · 2 years ago

I couldn't agree more! :)

tiny_ta commented on FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/pg_1234

basisword · 2 years ago

Unless you’re an addict you’re not taking alcohol/drugs/cough syrup on a daily basis though.

From my reading of this comment thread in general the issue really seems to be that you can’t see a doctor for free (at the point of use) in the US. Anecdotally I know a few people who have had difficult side effects on the pill, or medical issues which preclude them from using specific types. Speaking to a doctor once to get put on the best one for you, and then picking them up from the pharmacy monthly seems to work well and doesn’t seem like the “gatekeeping” people are ranting about in this thread. The idea that your pharmacist or doctor would have political or moral views on contraception that impacts their ability to do their job is crazy (to me). If that’s the case the entire system needs reviewed as opposed to making drugs available OTC.

tiny_ta · 2 years ago

You're absolutely right that, ideally, this would be a conversation with a professional, non-moralizing doctor.

But there could be many scenarios where one doesn't have access to such care - think of the uninsured, think of teenage girls who don't want their parents to know, think of women in abusive relationships who don't want to get pregnant, the list goes on. If you were on your partner's/parent's plan, there is no way you could visit an OBGYN without them knowing. In addition to this, like the other commenter mentioned, this has also somehow devolved into a political issue here.

tiny_ta commented on FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/pg_1234

chillydawg · 2 years ago

The pill can have pretty severe mental health impacts on women. I think as long as these are clearly signposted so that women know what they might be getting themselves into, then fair enough. Also tons of other side effects, some of which are pretty severe if taken in combination with the correct (eg most unlucky) underlying health issues.

tiny_ta · 2 years ago

I was on birth control for 5 years and had some friends on it too. My very anecdotal data is that: while none of us faced any mental health changes, there were some physiological changes that I did not like.

You're right that there are women who maybe severely impacted mental-health wise. But I think the benefits outweigh this as the lack of ability to control one's reproductive life can also be debilitating, mentally. And I like to think that impact is not much worse than what alcohol, drugs, even cough syrup can do to one's mental health. At least birth control can be stopped and is not addictive.

tiny_ta commented on U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high text.npr.org/1184034017... · Posted by u/rntn

c_crank · 2 years ago

The inability or unwillingness of city police to deal with camps of the homeless would register as a cause, to me.

tiny_ta · 2 years ago

I'm sure that's a contributor - thank you for highlighting the other side of this issue! :)

tiny_ta commented on U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high text.npr.org/1184034017... · Posted by u/rntn

c_crank · 2 years ago

Gangs and homeless camps are generally endemic to urban areas, not rural ones, despite rural low income groups having a far greater need to rely on cars to get around.

tiny_ta · 2 years ago

Huh, this is even more interesting because I always thought that homeless folk gravitate towards city centers and not that urban areas cause homelessness. I'm not looking to contradict you, just saying it's funny how we look at the same things and completely reverse the cause and effects in our heads :)

My thinking is that homeless folks tend to move towards city centers because they are more noticed, have more footfalls go past them and hence is easier for them to get food/change etc. They would not be likely to go to the suburbs because they are harder to get around, there are fewer people around to help, and it's very easy to get the police called on you for loitering around someone's lawn.

tiny_ta commented on U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high text.npr.org/1184034017... · Posted by u/rntn

tiny_ta · 2 years ago

Interesting, because I have a theory that less dependence on cars would actually lead to fewer crazy, homeless people and more vibrant neighbourhoods: the reason being that lower income folks wouldn't have to spend so much time and money on cars. As tempting as it is to look away, we're only fracturing our society more by drawing lines between different income classes, if we don't invest in things like walkable neighbourhoods and public transport.

tiny_ta commented on Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers wsj.com/articles/startups... · Posted by u/lxm

NeverFade · 2 years ago

In 2022, a 5-year peak year, 313 people in the entire US died from active shooters: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/active-shooters-fbi-report-2022...

That's out of 330 million total population.

tiny_ta · 2 years ago

I mean, they're still not wrong. Over 95% of US schools do have active shooter training [1] which is what the commenter was referring to.

1. https://everytownresearch.org/report/the-impact-of-active-sh...