From Slate:
When women can’t have as many children as we want to have, it scrambles our brains. Some of us deal with it through therapy, religion, and tons of personal growth. Others prefer not to address the issue and become bitter harpies who seethe with rage and envy towards more fertile women. I do not recommend this latter path.
I don’t like Usha but I was extremely happy for her when her pregnancy was announced. As I’m happy when anybody’s pregnancy is announced but I’ll confess that the feeling is especially acute when it’s an older mom.
It is not other women’s fault that we have been blighted in the reproductive area. Their easy, healthy pregnancies don’t take anything from us. The only right thing to do is to be sincerely happy for them.
No matter the hardship that has touched your life, you can always decide not to be a shit, is what I’m saying.
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Yeah, it’s a shame she had to give up her career. However, I think that very serious security concerns are also a reason, not just the choice of being a trad wife. At least she is not a wooden trophy wife like Melania.
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Usha didn’t give up her career. She’s doing the best thing possible for her career. She’s taking a brief hiatus before coming back as a massively paid lobbyist. I wouldn’t spend any time on pitying this class of people.
As for Melania, yes, she’s a hooker. But at least she’s a quiet hooker who doesn’t inflict her opinions on us like Michelle who just wouldn’t shut the eg up. Let’s be grateful for that.
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(blinks a few times)
No, Slate, tell us how you really feel…
I am taken aback. The middle-class taboo about having more than two kids is real, and I encounter it more often than I’d like. But dang. Usually people feel compelled to be more indirect about it, like pretending to be deeply concerned about your odds of making a Downs baby or something.
That’s, uh… refreshingly honest. If the wall of sewage stink coming off a hog farm lagoon can be described as “refreshing”.
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What a surprise that an ugly rant like that is published in Slate…
I haven’t visited either Slate or Salon in over a decade (I’m surprised every time I’m reminded that Salon still exists). It’s strange to think that they were both worthwhile places >20 years ago.
(commenter formerly known as AcademicLurker)
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Isn’t it? I have never been any kind of liberal, but I remember a time when I used to read the occasional bit in Salon, and some of them were worth reading.
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All of the anti-racism was thrown out of the window, and the position that there are too many brown children is proudly embraced on Slate.
Truly, these people have no shame and no principles.
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I wonder if it was so much “too many brown children” or if it was possibly, (too many children in general.) I wonder this, because it seems like those who publish this sort of them always seem to be on the humanity should go extinct side.
I certainly could be wrong, as I don’t read them and like AcademicLurker had thought that rag had shut down years ago.
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Of course, the author doesn’t want any children to be born. But 5 years ago she’d be immediately cancelled because to these people Usha is BIPOC.
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Imagine the tragedy of this woman, sitting there alone, probably close to menopause. And then to find out that another woman is going for baby #4. This must be devastating.
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Something I have noticed, here in France: many smart, beautiful French girls wouldn’t date or marry a right-wing guy for anything, because right-wingers are vilified by the people who speak on TV and tell us what we should think. Then come the Asian girls, who don’t care about a guy’s political ideas, but more about what kind of man he is in private, and also how much he earns. JD Vance is one such guy. And brown-skinned, smart Usha won the prize which the nordic goddesses disdained. Many of whom probably realized later that Bill Clinton-style liberals, if they even managed to catch one, can be (actually, often are) absolute cads in private.
Like you, Clarissa, I suspect the journalist who wrote the article in Slate is probably one of those white women who made the wrong choices and are so resentful about it. And as you said, Usha didn’t put a stop to her career, she’s just taking a brief hiatus to climb even higher.
Last but not least: Usha is not white, but she’s considered by many leftists as “white-adjacent”, which means: brown or yellow, but as smart and disciplined as white people are supposed to be. Eventually, the white/non-white divide becomes white, yellow and brown versus black. And we all all know why.
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I don’t know anywhere else, but in the US Indian women, especially second-generation, are extremely left-wing. I’d say they are the leftiest demographic of all. Usha is no exception. She’s a rabid leftist and completely dominates the emotionally unstable Vance. (It’s all in his autobiography). This is one of the reasons I’m not voting for him for president. I don’t want the woke fiend Usha anywhere near the presidency.
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