Decline of the western society #2

There are a multitude of reasons for remaining childless, ranging from financial concerns to a preference for existing lifestyles, or even fertility issues as couples delay marriage.

At the core of many of these reasons is the priority given to work and making a living, said Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser from the sociology department at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

“For those in mid- to higher-level jobs, the driving force that makes people spend more time on work are key performance indicators (KPIs).  You may have a day off or even leave to clear, but the expected deliverables remain.”

In addition, raising a child entails not just having someone to look after them, but also “being deeply involved in the child’s development, which could conflict with the priority of having to deliver on the KPIs”, said Assoc Prof Tan.

Having to make a trade-off with one’s career is a big concern for women like Ms Tanya Pillay, 28, who works in corporate communications.

“If I was a mum, I wouldn’t have that peace of mind to go that far in my career, to be able to work until (late) - you can’t do that if you have a child.

“Women should be able to have both (children and a career). I believe it can be done - but perhaps not in Singapore,” said Ms Pillay, citing a general lack of workplace support for parents.

Her husband, who she married in 2019, also does not want kids.

Another reason for the decision is that the world can be an ugly place, she said.

“There is sexism, racism all around, workplace discrimination, inequality, so many evil things and social injustices that we are (seeing) every day.

“For us who are already on this earth, we do what we can … But it’d be so unfair to bring (a) child into this,” said Ms Pillay, who works in the non-profit sector.

Ms Loh caveated that while she does not want to have children now, she might feel differently in future. One thing that might change her mind is having more workplace support for parents.

“We have friends who are young parents, who don’t have work-life balance, even though they have childcare leave and so on.

“There’s also still expectations from work - like even though you’re just back from maternity leave, you must be performing at 90 to 100 per cent of where you were before. For fathers, you’re expected not to take leave for family issues and instead settle that on weekends or at night.”

She added that it would help if “in general, society was a bit more forgiving”.

higurashihougi wrote:Singapore is not Western, certainly, but I think I will put it here as a topic about society and social issue.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/census-more-married-couples-women-childless-no-kids-15139522

‘I don't think I will regret it’: Why more married couples are remaining childless

There are a multitude of reasons for remaining childless, ranging from financial concerns to a preference for existing lifestyles, or even fertility issues as couples delay marriage.

At the core of many of these reasons is the priority given to work and making a living, said Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser from the sociology department at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

“For those in mid- to higher-level jobs, the driving force that makes people spend more time on work are key performance indicators (KPIs).  You may have a day off or even leave to clear, but the expected deliverables remain.”

In addition, raising a child entails not just having someone to look after them, but also “being deeply involved in the child’s development, which could conflict with the priority of having to deliver on the KPIs”, said Assoc Prof Tan.

Having to make a trade-off with one’s career is a big concern for women like Ms Tanya Pillay, 28, who works in corporate communications.

“If I was a mum, I wouldn’t have that peace of mind to go that far in my career, to be able to work until (late) - you can’t do that if you have a child.

“Women should be able to have both (children and a career). I believe it can be done - but perhaps not in Singapore,” said Ms Pillay, citing a general lack of workplace support for parents.

Her husband, who she married in 2019, also does not want kids.

Another reason for the decision is that the world can be an ugly place, she said.

“There is sexism, racism all around, workplace discrimination, inequality, so many evil things and social injustices that we are (seeing) every day.

“For us who are already on this earth, we do what we can … But it’d be so unfair to bring (a) child into this,” said Ms Pillay, who works in the non-profit sector.

Ms Loh caveated that while she does not want to have children now, she might feel differently in future. One thing that might change her mind is having more workplace support for parents.

“We have friends who are young parents, who don’t have work-life balance, even though they have childcare leave and so on.

“There’s also still expectations from work - like even though you’re just back from maternity leave, you must be performing at 90 to 100 per cent of where you were before. For fathers, you’re expected not to take leave for family issues and instead settle that on weekends or at night.”

She added that it would help if “in general, society was a bit more forgiving”.

Basically now women are being happy to repeat the worst mistakes that many men did in the past, but in their case is it even worse, since some of these mistakes are not recoverable...

kvs wrote:

I forgive this guy his knee-jerk take on Cuba, China and Russia.   But he cuts through the PC rot in the west like a hot knife through butter.

Disaster: No Health Left at Cannes Film Festival, by Elena Karaeva for RIA Novosti. 17.07.2017.

The scenes of the new film turned out to be so difficult to watch that the intervention of the ambulance service was required, because at the session of the film "Titan" by Julie Ducorno (the work was selected for the main competition of the forum) several dozen viewers became ill, they needed the help of doctors, as a result of these people were forced to be taken out of the hall.

Ducorno's tape "Titan" (we are not talking about ancient mythology, but about a prosthesis made of this heavy-duty material) is blood, violence, contract killings, endless orgies in which the main character participates, he is also a heroine, this he / she is a transgender.

If for you this is an intolerable "tough guy", then there is another picture, "Fracture", it is about the crisis of the hospital system in France , which coincided with the then "jaquery", the manifestation of "yellow vests".

A couple of wealthy Parisian bourgeois, accustomed to the velvety of private clinics, find themselves in the hell of a Parisian state hospital. A modest "social girl" in the main competition of the main festival of the world (what does a film event on the Riviera like to call herself)?

Not really.

The bourgeois couple are lesbians. The doctor, or rather the nurse, who pulls one of the women out of trouble, is a black non-professional actress who plays herself.

If the "social" does not roll, then maybe a love story?

For example, the film of the uncrowned king and the usual favorite of the forum, Jacques Audiar?

"Paris, 13th arrondissement" - once again about love. She loves him (we are happy), but he loves her, but her other one (we are confused), and he also loves her third (we are puzzled), and this third one loves her first.

Audiar, who came to the cinema in the footsteps of the famous father of Michel Audiar, who began as an editor for Roman Polanski , co-wrote the script for "The Professional" (yes, the same, with Belmondo), this time decided to do - in an artistic sense - polyamorous.

The listed tapes are the tops of the selection thought of the organizers of the event. And there is, of course, Kirill Serebrennikov's work "The Petrovs in the Flu" (everything is gray, dull, hallucinogenic, but, it should be noted, the family is still traditional, which by today's standards is practically open dissidence).

In the main competition, six films tell about the life of LGBTQ people from one angle or another.

This is a quarter of all films presented in this competition, which in fact is the main showcase of cinematic trends both at the moment and for several years to come.

This is the set trend: those who dream of strolling along the Croisette and climbing the red carpet now know that just such a set of characters and a similar storyline can and, most importantly, will pave the way to career and fame.

Today it is almost impossible to imagine that 30 years ago the forum opened names and was a tuning fork for artistic (and not sexological) research.

Now the "star ticket" are those vital or physiological factors, which in all ages were purely private circumstances. Not intended for other people's attention, and certainly not for the plot of a movie story, and even with the Dolby system.

A special and persistent shift of interest to the "lower floor" and to disability took place literally before our eyes.

Why?

In order to try to answer this question, it is worth paying attention to the following.

The Riviera Film Forum is the third most important event after the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup from a media point of view.

These are thousands of journalists, hundreds of media, a huge press center. In which all office equipment is from the largest American corporation (not Apple , but also from Silicon Valley).

Actresses, starlets, half-light ladies, fashion models are being prepared for release by makeup artists, too, of a very large, planetary famous brand.

The same goes for the provision of hairdressing services. They represent a different brand, but no less famous.

An army of stylists comes to the festival, which dresses the participants of the event (and every day - in a new one), as well as a division of those who rent out jewelry.

The advertising contracts of these market players with the festival are almost always barter ("we give you mascara, hairspray and diamonds to cover up, and you give us a global, for the whole world, a showcase"), the ratio of the invested funds and the resulting effect is calculated quite a specific increase in the percentage of profits.

Global companies and corporations are looking for any opportunity for product placement, receiving colossal profits in return.

Actually, it is their ideas and those values ​​that, as the globalist elites decided, need not only to be made acceptable, but also to be approved as a "new norm", and are being tested in Cannes.

Then, when societies in the countries of the "entire civilized world" accept this, or, having resigned themselves (there is no reception against scrap) and slightly wrying, agree to surrender, these "new norms" will make it the only possible one.

Those who disagree will be declared "reactionaries" and "enemies of progress", the pocket press will perform a ritual auto-da-fe - and the deed is done. Within the framework of gender fluidity, polyamory and other "labor bees' love".

The "Cultural Revolution" galloped across Europe and stumbled over Russia.

In which customers of one of the retail chains quite reasonably noticed that purchases are purchases, and it is better to put your rainbow orientation and other gender identity in the kitchen cabinet, these are your problems, and you should not overload the public space with the suffering of your personal "lower floor".

As well as the attempt - within the framework of the same "progressivism" - to bring on the stage of the famous theater in the role of Ranevskaya, the transgender who is widely known in very narrow circles, Natasha suffered a fiasco.

Simply because society asked: "Excuse me, but why the hell, instead of a classical play, you from the theater arrange a circus with bearded (once) women?"

And the theater immediately disavowed everything.

In a situation where today, on Saturday evening, a company of polyamorous transgender people and other activists-red guards, collective Europe , as well as "the entire civilized world" will appear on the stage of the Palais des Festivals , of course, it will be a pity.

How prince Fabrizio Salina regretted the lost paradise from the immortal masterpiece of Luchino Visconti "Leopard".

Exactly 58 years ago, this work of the master and one of the founders of Italian neorealism was awarded the Palme d'Or.

The Leopard was awarded because it was a great film.

Not because Signor Visconti was gay.

It took European cinema a little more than half a century to climb the steps of the spiritual ladder that separate talent from the "lower floor".

https://ria.ru/20210717/kinofestival-1741583543.html

flamming_python wrote:
Yes yes of course hosting huge black pride marches where British monuments are defaced will raise racial consiousness in society. Which is not a good thing. It will of course lead to more racism not less.

This guy isn't discovering America here, nor about the SJWs and the whole critical race theory agenda.

And as for his takes on events around the world - he is a simple retard. Not worth my time

kvs wrote:
But when it comes to Romanians, they have a hangup over Russia and communism.   Ceausescu was a Romanian phenomenon and
not the collective guilt of the USSR and Russia.   He was courting NATzO during the 1970s at the same time he was converting
Romania into a North Korea variant.

flamming_python wrote:There are plenty of decent Romanians as well

But the anti-Russian ones are not worth anyone's time really.

now the animal-fuckers come out of the woodwork as they want to be added to the LGBT - alphabet people because they feel they are not represented.
They want to be called "zoophiles".

so an "z" should be added to the alphabet people.
And seriously nobody shouts "Unacceptable!"

higurashihougi wrote:"Civilized nations"