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Broken Circuit

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Tomorrow is Mother’s Day.

If you want to understand the birth rate decline, I implore you, go on TikTok tomorrow.

It’s become an annual train wreck I absolutely cannot look away from. Women, en masse, log on in tears to record how badly their day went – it usually involves being ignored by their husbands/kids, not being given presents, or having to do things for their MIL instead of the day being solely about them.

https://x.com/HannahDCox/status/1921213671386091688?t=4lzTWqIOxX7c3huTlicbqA&s=19

I’m not on TikTok but yes, this is a whole phenomenon on social media. The other day I posted an X example.

This is like people who can’t enjoy food. Their digestive system is broken, and the only way for them to derive any enjoyment from it is to have a special occasion where everybody gathers around and praises them for eating.

Imagine saying, “I’m unappreciated as an eater and people can’t even show up to celebrate that I eat a single time in a year.”

“I’m unappreciated as a person with two legs.”

These are precisely the people who’ll line up to purchase “experiences” because the circuit that communicates their bodies and their brains is broken. They need an artificial one that they are ready to pay for.

8 responses to “Broken Circuit”

  1. ShadowsCollide Avatar
    ShadowsCollide

    What a miserable bunch of women, Mother’s Day is on a different day each year so maybe the family forgot or everyone is really busy. One problem is that Mother’s Day is one of those odd, commercial holidays and there’s so much commercialization around it that some women expect a huge amount of attention and presents and get mad that the day isn’t all about them.

    Since my mother works today, yesterday my brother made her a homemade card and I arranged her presents in a gift bag to give her after I got home from church. For presents, I got her a pink T-shirt with a Phoenix and a pendant with the constellation and symbol for Leo since she’s into astrology and that’s her sign. Both of them I haggled for on eBay and she loved them, it wasn’t the fanciest Mother’s Day gift but it was stuff she’d like

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Restaurants are so full on this day that we never go. Today I’ll have to because it’s a friend’s birthday, and it’s unfair to deprive her of a celebration because of Mother’s Day. But I can only imagine how crowded and noisy it will be.

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  2. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    “Women, en masse, log on in tears to record how badly their day went “

    Humble brags… the meta message is: I’m so essential! These idiots would perish without me!!!! Eat it bitches!!!!!

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      See, I didn’t even understand that this is the purpose. That’s why I’m useless on the mom scene. I don’t get the most basic things.

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  3. methylethyl Avatar
    methylethyl

    Huh. Mother’s day is just the day when we remind each other to call our respective moms when we get home from church. That’s it.

    It’s hard enough to remember my kids’ birthdays and stuff, without adding in a bunch of made-up greeting-card-marketing holidays…

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    Stringer Bell

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    1. methylethyl Avatar
      methylethyl

      Well, I guess we won’t have to revolt against our PMC overlords, if they’re that determined to off themselves.

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    2. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Stigma gets a bad rap because people want to believe that “everything equals everything else.” But it doesn’t. Stigma is the way that a collectivity corrects the kind of dysfunction that can destroy or severely damage it.

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