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[biofox → fnord77]

As a male scientist and engineer, I am also on antidepressants :(

[Loudergood → fnord77]

What a weird thing to say.

[malfist → fnord77]

I don't think having beauty pageants keep women from being depressed

[ozim → malfist]

Pageants were far and between and everyone knew participants had to prepare and they are not walking like fit/dressed that day to day.

Nowadays we have eternal pageant on the internet and lots faking it like they live/sleep/shower in full makeup and perfect fit.

[mistermann → malfist]

I wonder what the fact of the matter is. It'd be rather hilarious if Humans have been shooting ourselves in the feet for the last few decades with many of our social engineering initiatives. And the reproduction rates chart is ugly.

[squigz → mistermann]

I wonder what the fact of that matter is. Are reproduction rates dropping because women aren't as pressured to bear children due to those silly 'social engineering initiatives'?

[mistermann → squigz]

I'd bet that's part of it, so what percentage it is would be impossible to determine, which itself may be impossible to realize, for some.

[darby_nine → mistermann]

Who wants to bring a baby onto a sinking ship?

[TimeBearingDown → darby_nine]

Modern information access seems to have led to the sinking ship feeling, across many of the most prosperous countries, and so effectively that world wars, deadlier pandemics, and thermonuclear brinkmanship can scarcely compare.

[Loudergood → darby_nine]

Exactly, it's simple economics.