@adam-l Actually I think being "someone for whom things happen" (without doing any work) is the great dream of every woman. Maybe men would have had such a dream if society allowed -I really don't know- but for women it is the great fantasy and looking as good as you can is the key to it. Look hot, look special, get; attention, offers of help, free experiences and free stuff.

@First-light performativity is all they can perceive. You do... something, and... something happens.

Isn't it magic?

"Women are children" is an affront to children. Children have the capacity to evolve.

@adam-l Good point about it being a short term strategy, one consistently employed in other areas. Look at the national debt in the U.S. and UK. These people are enriching themselves now while saying to hell with future generations. If some calamity strikes in 25 years, countries won't have the flexibility to deal with it via issuance of debt. Leaders used to care about such things.

@SeasonedRP

Yes, that's the rationale, but on a more fundamental level it unravels the population's sense of belonging and their motivation. It's a psychopathic, greedy, fast, short term strategy, a phase that we can probably identify in the collapse of all the empires of the past.

@adam-l It's rational. Rational egoism. If lower class women aren't reproducing, they are in the work force putting downward pressure on wages. Because the desire for downward pressure on wages is insatiable, immigrants are imported. This has the additional benefit, to the elites, of dividing the population and making it easier to control.

@Typo-MAGAshiv It's all connected, though. The elite are destroying the capacity of their own lower classes to reproduce, not because it's a rational thing, but because opposition to them has vanished (and the single biggest reason is that they managed to turn the Left from a working class orientation to "rights of the minorities" and gender issues) - and they are bringing in immigrants as a precarious underclass to take the lower tier jobs. It's a recipe for disaster.

@adam-l one problem at a time

First, the UK and the rest of Western Civilization needs to expel Muslims, whose religious writings teach that it's OK to treat non-Muslims that way.

After that, we can address those other issues. Those can't be fixed while the invaders are raping, pillaging, burning, destroying, etc.

@Typo-MAGAshiv

They are actors. They serve whatever role they are served. This "strong independent woman" trope is orchestrated from above...

What's frustrating for me it the soullessness of it all. Yeah, women take the form of their container, but the current mainstream has focused so singularly on their worst possible traits, their drive to antagonize the man, that has eclipsed any good qualities of the female.