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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for linking, I haven’t read it yet but I definitely will.

I admit I was bummed about the editorial in the Washington post about it. Instead of telling men that they should stop being red-pillers, or call upon the government to make marriage and having children less of a financial burden, they basically told women that we should be okay dating and marrying people who don’t think we deserve bodily autonomy. That’s what we get from a supposedly liberal magazine? [/quote]

Point to the line in the article where it said that. [/quote]

I said the editorial board “basically said that,” so you need to use some inferences here. The article said:

“In another era, political or ideological differences might have had less impact on marriage rates. But, increasingly, the political is personal. A 2021 survey of college students found that 71 percent of Democrats would not date someone with opposing views.”

“This mismatch means that someone will need to compromise. As the researchers Lyman Stone and Brad Wilcox have noted, about 1 in 5 young singles will have little choice but to marry someone outside their ideological tribe. The other option is that they decline to get married at all — not an ideal outcome considering the data showing that marriage is good for the health of societies and individuals alike”

The article didn’t say anything about *why* democrats don’t want to marry someone with different ideologies. They didn’t say anything about overturning roe v. Wade, the increasing expectation that women to earn money without accompanying expectations that men will do more childcare and housework, or the way that children—one of the big drivers of marriage—is financially not an option unless both partners have good jobs. They act like compromise is the only way to fix things, and democrats are the weak link.

Also I strongly suspect that the democrats who are willing to compromise on views are mostly men. [/quote]

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