“Crave” isn’t the word I would use. “Entitled to” is the idea I get. Especially if you don’t provide it to them, they notice something’s missing. You aren’t conforming to societal expectations and it makes them very uncomfortable. Uncomfortable boys get scared which manifests in anger and lashing out. They are dangerous animals.

Someone who gets my sense of humor, but who i can also have serious conversation with.

I’m a 52 yo woman in red Ohio. When I have to go out in public I wear a red flannel, dirty steel toe work boots and a camouflage baseball hat.

I second that motion. It’s unbelievable how far I had to scroll to see a single woman named. Our country is so misogynistic. Even Mexico elected a woman president before us, and I thought they were way more patriarchal of a culture. We’re a lot closer to Nazi Germany meets the Hand Maid’s Tale than people realize. My hope is Joe gets re elected, steps down and Kamala is our first black woman president.

I’m a blue dot in rural, very red Ohio. That part sucks to the maximum. These people are truly deranged. I love living in the country and the cost of living is reasonable. I love being an hour away from Columbus. I love that I have a job making a decent wage that I can support myself. It’s a trade off. If I moved to a blue state my cost of living would go up.

Oh yes, my family is simultaneously mad I left their political religious ideology and feel sorry for me. I feel way better off. Deconstructing how I was raised has helped me deconstruct other ridiculous societal norms and expectations. Unsubscribing from patriarchy as much as possible has made me the happiest, best version of myself.

Ty- thought I was missing something.

How do you sell fish?

“I always check the young ones to make sure they are donating their free physical, mental & emotional labor to a man.”

Conservative right wing nut bag radio counselor Dr. Laura uses this tripe to get women to comply with the patriarchy and give their husbands seggs when they don’t want to.

THIS. We’ve been provided a construct to live. To live outside of that construct costs lots of money.

You can make it work if you have good boundaries and are ok not discussing hot button topics. I’ve had to become very detached from parts of my partner’s life for my own well being. I’m married 25 years. I was agnostic/ cultural Christian when we married. He was born in JW and did not tell me until we were living together. That should have been a huge red flag. Before we got married I studied with him and an elder for a few months and decided it definitely wasn’t for me. He went back to being inactive as he was when we met and stayed that way until Covid hit and his manipulating mother begged him to return to “the truth” and he’s been back in ever since and even gotten baptized. He knows I’m an atheist now. We don’t talk about that part of our lives. I do not encourage him at all because I find patriarchy in general repulsive and engage in it as little as possible. I love my partner and appreciate that so far he has not tried to push any of his religious garbage on me(he knows that won’t fly). And I went no contact with his mom over a year ago because of physical and emotional abuse and although he was very angry about it he has never pushed me to be around her even though she lives 5 minutes away. I have come to view his religion as just another of his hobbies like golf. I would never interfere with someone else’s hobby, but I also don’t need to be supportive of it or encourage it.

Most people are not self aware enough to be conscious of anything but their own comfort. I would say these types of people probably are just noticing lulls in conversation or lack of constant mindless chattering and it triggers something in them that makes them uncomfortable. I’ve been accused of being passive aggressive in situations where I don’t care to interact and don’t feel I have anything productive to contribute to the conversation.

Celebrated Halloween, my favorite holiday!

In my situation they glorify their parenting. In their minds they were martyrs. I don’t think they really wanted kids, but we’re doing their social duty. I also think my mom feels guilty for allowing my dad to abuse us, so she constantly brings up times we messed up as a diversion tactic. I’ve started calling her out on it and she doesn’t do it as much. “Yes mom, you left a 16 year old the most difficult and hard to handle vehicle to drive and then took off for the weekend leaving her alone. I can see how you weren’t as a parent any way responsible for the vehicle being wrecked🙄.”

“It’s too bad your single”=“it’s too bad you aren’t donating your labor to a man”

I suppose she still feels entitled to do it to other people. She’s banned from my house and I’m no contact with her due to physical and emotional abuse.

Male Gynecologist about my shaved privates: “Did you do that yourself?”

I’m very picky too. I’ll probably conduct extensive interviews.

They think we’re stupid 🙄

Yes! That’s him. Socialists are taking over and ruining his country. Like, you promise? 😂

Low contact

Interesting. I had to look up the term and you’re right.

I caught my mil in my bedroom suite looking through & touching clothes I had stacked and folded on my bed. It was weird.