Jennifer Aniston slams JD Vance for his comments about women without children

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[therearewords]

If only all women would recognise the misogyny.

[automaticpeople]

I saw a woman last night saying depression is bad in single woman over 35 and obviously automatically linked that to them not having kids. She was going on about how she would love to only be referred to as someone’s wife too.

[goldenhera]

I've seen quite a bit of the 'birth control causes depression' threads online, mostly in the woo woo adjacent communities. It goes hand in hand with the tradwife/I'm just a girl/feminists were wrong about working nonsense you see online.

Like, ladies, I know life is hard but the solution is not to shut up and become some man's broodmare.

[automaticpeople]

I honestly think that’s where it comes from. They don’t want to be responsible for their own lives and they want a man to make their choices for them. It’s pretty sad, but I don’t go around telling other women how to live, but some of them are very obsessed with telling us how to live.

[xtinkerbellax]

I've seen discussion on this mainly when people talk about specific trad wives and mental health. Someone struggling with certain mental health issues might think the dynamic is appealing because they dont have to make a ton of decisions and it might relieve certain burdens but in reality I dont think it ever plays out that way and being in that kind of dynamic is more likely to worsen your mental health than help.

[goldenhera]

It's also all a facade. An ultra conservative woman with six kids who doesn't work outside the home is obviously going to show the most appealing aspects of her life on social media. I'm specifically thinking of that homesteader who is a JetBlue (I think) heiress. Like, yeah, her life looks great because she can afford to live this life in luxury.

[pretty_angel]

Yep, they're either filthy rich or find out the hard way that a man who wants a trad wife is an abusive POS and then they need to flee the country or something. Yikes.

[para1]

It's not "or". Sometimes folks aren't rich but it's always "and":

[pretty_angel]

True, that example someone posted definitely looks like an "and" ugh

[primimproper]

And then the ultimate irony being that male incompetence is so high, these women still end up doing all the mental labor they thought this would avoid.

[blazingeternity]

As someone who got depression from taking birth control (or maybe bc just agitated it, the details don't matter) this is a horrible narrative to embed serious medical side effects in! Way to degrade women who don't want to get pregnant, aren't ready yet to get pregnant, shouldn't get pregnant, take it for other medial reasons, and the depressed all at the same time.

[goldenhera]

The health care providers and advocates I actually see speaking about this topic are constantly running interference in this sector. There is a real need for understanding how hormonal birth control can impact you and right wing grifters are filling up the space with RetVrn nonsense.

[ninelives]

i have very severe endometriosis and the biggest online support forums have always been poisoned by tradwife anti-birth control and anti-estrogen blocker propaganda despite those being the ONLY non-surgical options to control endo, to the point where even normal people regurgitate their disinformation. these women would rather go in for invasive surgery every 2-3 years until menopause than be temporarily infertile. it's bonkers

[slinkydinks]

It's always funny (read: sad and frustrating) to me when people identify the problem but misattribute the cause or offer ineffective solutions just because they align with their worldview.

[aleksie]

I see this in with supposed experts in my profession. They do an okay job getting data, but the conclusions they draw are very WTF.

[therearewords]

What a tiny, small view on life.