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laura__palmer March 16, 2024

@yeahyepyes yes, by men. So how do we address toxic masculinity, male entitlement and male aggression to make men stop killing each other, women and themselves? This problem starts with men. 

laura__palmer March 15, 2024

@sarahjp oh yeah, these influencers will be fine. But yeah, regular women need to know what they are actually signing up for. Not having your own income and super is extremely risky. It makes it hard to pick up after death or divorce and makes it very hard, near impossible to leave a toxic or violent relationship. Education, careers and money give you options and choice. That is what we should be telling young women. 

laura__palmer March 14, 2024

@twitterazzis so many men just won’t acknowledge that. Any discussion around male violence, whether it be how they kill women, each other or themselves, is derailed by “women can be violent too!” Or “women drive men to suicide!”, rather than looking inward and addressing make entitlement and aggression and how toxic masculinity is so damaging to men. 

laura__palmer March 14, 2024

@mustlovedogs human history goes back a lot further than your grandmother. Throughout history, women have worked. It’s only since the idea of the “spheres”, made popular during the Enlightenment and that gained traction in the 19th and 20th century, that it became a thing for women to stay home and for men to earn.

laura__palmer March 13, 2024

It's just a fantasy and they do it for the likes and for the income they make on their uploads. In reality, stay-at-home mothers do not have their own incomes, at least not anything significant. They have no current job history and the only super they will get is tied to their partner. If their marriage breaks down or their partner dies, then they are at risk of homelessness and poverty. Plus, it can only be done by women who have a partner who is earning a considerable income and shame is still put unfairly onto working mothers, that working to provide an income for themselves and their family is somehow damaging their children (it's not).  It's one of the most impractical lies ever sold to women, that being a stay-at-home mother is a viable choice. It's both a privileged choice and one fraught with risk. And it's not a job, it's being a parent, something women have done since time began and have done so while working. In history, stay-at-home mothering is the anomaly. Not women working. So the fact that this tradwife movement is so popular is concerning. 

laura__palmer March 13, 2024

Can this end now? 

laura__palmer March 13, 2024

Why don't women realise they deserve better than this? Honestly, you're better off alone.

laura__palmer March 13, 2024

@rush yes! they are clearly different photos of her face. Everyone just needs to calm down

laura__palmer March 12, 2024

@suz I disagree. Some of the most articulate people I have known swear. Swearing can be clear and expressive language and it is sometimes necessary to get a point across. 

laura__palmer March 12, 2024

@keen teacher Doesn't matter. He's part of a system that has a massive problem with racism and bigotry. 
And to claim he was racially vilified means that he is acting pretty immorally. White people are no oppressed, calling them "White" is not oppressing them. 

laura__palmer March 11, 2024

The study and lifelong learning that Early Childhood Educators have to undertake is onerous and it beggars belief that they are paid so very little. This is such an important role and this is spot on. The issues arise because it is underpaid and there aren't enough workers or support for those workers. The whole industry needs a shakeup. 


laura__palmer March 11, 2024

@julius it's not funny, it's scary.

laura__palmer March 11, 2024

@suz don't police people's language. This is an emotional topic and sometimes people feel the need to swear. I have an excellent command of the English language and I still swear, as does Mia. 

laura__palmer March 11, 2024

@chrissyinthemiddle He's not just a public servant, though. He's a police officer, who have a ripe history of racism against people of colour. The courts should throw this out and stop wasting time and money on nothing. 

laura__palmer March 10, 2024

@rush it’s like she’s gone for the opposite on purpose 

laura__palmer March 10, 2024

This is nothing. White people: harden up. Racism. Yeah, sure, we’re all soooooo oppressed being white in the West. 

laura__palmer March 9, 2024

@jay he doesn’t get to restrain them and if you think zip tying children is an appropriate response to them swimming in a pool of an unoccupied house a half dozen times, there is something seriously wrong with you. The children being unsupervised is a separate issue and won’t be solved with some guy taking the law into his own hands and deliberately harming them. 

laura__palmer March 7, 2024

I would have loved to have seen this fellow's face when he realised that he was the one who was going to be arrested. What a terrible person he is

laura__palmer March 5, 2024

@yeahyepyes it is insulting, though. That's why it needs to be changed. 

laura__palmer March 4, 2024

@kyliewylie "The girls cannot wash things clean." Exactly. It's like they expect girls to fix the issues, rather than looking inwards at the root of the issue.