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*AITA for telling my friend with kids that I'm glad "the village" doesn't exist anymore?*

I have a friend "Bella" who is late 20s and has a toddler and a baby. She constantly bemoans the fact that "the village" doesn't exist anymore and people aren't helping her and her partner wit their baby the way they used to in past generations and how selfish it is and how terrible this is society now. She's really bitter her mother won't retire and babysit the kids for free, but her mother is only in her mid 50s and can't afford to retire yet. She constantly complains she can't travel or enjoy her life anymore because she doesn't have a village. After years of this, I told her I'm actually really glad we have moved away from that because "the village" that parents romanticise was actually the unpaid labor of women, and as a woman who doesn't want a child, I'm glad that I'm no longer considered socially obligated to babysit other people's kids for free or do household chores for people who chose to have kids in my free time, especially because these people won't pay it forward to me in any way, and if something happened to me, like getting really sick and needing help, they'd use their kids as a reason they can't help me. I also reminded her that "the village" depended on women not having jobs and it is a good thing that women can now sustain themselves and aren't forced into dependency on their fathers or husbands. The thing that triggered it was that I went overseas recently for a holiday and to attend a concert of an artist I really like and she complained about how she doesn't get to to these things because "the village" is off doing things like that. She said I'm just a really selfish childfree person who wants mothers to "suffer", but I don't think I was wrong, and then she said I was a bad feminist and a terrible person and hasn't spoken to me since. AITA? submitted by /u/Potential-Alaska6412 to r/AmItheAsshole [link] [comments]
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AITA for telling my friend with kids that I'm glad "the village" doesn't exist anymore?

I have a friend "Bella" who is late 20s and has a toddler and a baby. She constantly bemoans the fact that "the village" doesn't exist anymore and people aren't helping her and her partner wit their baby the way they used to in past generations and how selfish it is and how terrible this is society now. She's really bitter her mother won't retire and babysit the kids for free, but her mother is only in her mid 50s and can't afford to retire yet. She constantly complains she can't travel or enjoy her life anymore because she doesn't have a village. After years of this, I told her I'm actually really glad we have moved away from that because "the village" that parents romanticise was actually the unpaid labor of women, and as a woman who doesn't want a child, I'm glad that I'm no longer considered socially obligated to babysit other people's kids for free or do household chores for people who chose to have kids in my free time, especially because these people won't pay it forward to me in any way, and if something happened to me, like getting really sick and needing help, they'd use their kids as a reason they can't help me. I also reminded her that "the village" depended on women not having jobs and it is a good thing that women can now sustain themselves and aren't forced into dependency on their fathers or husbands. The thing that triggered it was that I went overseas recently for a holiday and to attend a concert of an artist I really like and she complained about how she doesn't get to to these things because "the village" is off doing things like that. She said I'm just a really selfish childfree person who wants mothers to "suffer", but I don't think I was wrong, and then she said I was a bad feminist and a terrible person and hasn't spoken to me since. AITA? submitted by /u/Potential-Alaska6412 to r/AmItheAsshole link comments
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*In your opinion, which U.S. city has the worst combination of cost of living and weather?*

I’m going with Boston submitted by /u/danh138 to r/geography [link] [comments]
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In your opinion, which U.S. city has the worst combination of cost of living and weather?

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*Roe v. Wade repeal impacts where young women choose to go to college, research finds: Female students are more likely to choose a university or college in states where abortion rights and access are upheld.*

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Roe v. Wade repeal impacts where young women choose to go to college, research finds: Female students are more likely to choose a university or college in states where abortion rights and access are upheld.

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Greeting my deaf friend of 14 years after coming home from work

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*Republican North Dakota state senator Ray Holmberg has been indicted for possessing child porn and for traveling to the Czech Republic from 2011-2016 to rape women under 18. He is a Christian Nationalist and is North Dakota's longest-serving state senator*

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