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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder how people today would have handled being conscripted and sent off to Vietnam or the Normandy Invasion. Or dealt with the famine and disease that was a mainstay of human existence up until 150 years ago. Or the far higher likelihood of death during childbirth. I don’t begrudge people for getting help, but it really does seem like so many women are in a perpetual state of being aggreived and broken and wounded.

Violent crime is way down from the 1990s. Unemployment is low. We are not being drafted to fight in wars (not that most DCUMers would have to worry about a draft). We have amazing technology. And yet women are more miserable and resentful than ever.[/quote]

This! I'm a PhD student in my late 20s (female) and while it's stressful, I think about my late grandmother who had her schooling cut short by the Japanese invasion (she was born in Malaysia) and was forced into an arranged marriage at age 15 to a man twice her age just because that was the way to survive in the 1940s for women. She died illiterate, never travelled and had to endure giving birth to children she never wanted to have. And she never had a chance to build a career or pursue her interests. So I think if more young women like myself have more perspective, we would be less hoodwinked into thinking we need some kind of mental health diagnosis. [/quote]
Then let's fight child trafficking across our border.[/quote]

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