Brianna WuGosh, that is a mystery. If only one our nation’s most revered newspapers could ask literally any woman.
2/ too busy playing VR maybe?
KM6ECC@briannawu maybe women don't want to bring kids into the world just to be the next victims of generational theft? Idk. Women at that age are pretty busy trying to scratch out an existence that does not suck. And right now, Republicans are working very hard to send new mothers back to work just to remain eligible for food (SNAP), but of course not doing crap about child care. Again, just my guess here, women will have the better answers to your question, of course!
BenRiceM@briannawu it’s the avocado toast
Janne Oksanen@briannawu Or speedrunning Princess Peach.
LordMortis@briannawu I am here for this content :D
Lyle Solla-Yates
synlogic@briannawu lesse... COVID. inflation. climate doomism. OH YEAH ABORTION RIGHTS ROLLED BACK. perhaps other factors haha
Michelle (she/her) 
🇵🇷@briannawu Ooooh so NOW a woman's choice matters!!!! 
Mark Kristensson@briannawu too busy with the vagenda of manocide
Orc@briannawu Oh that's just crazy talk; what next -- thinking women are something other than mindless birthing vessels? Scandalous!
Ursa@briannawu couldn't be a cratering quality of life/untenable costs of living or raising a family due to ongoing corporate greed driven inflation could it?
Nah, must be all that avocado toast.
Steve Hersey
RevJeber@briannawu
I’m always surprised that any woman would want two after having one.
I’m always surprised that any woman would want two after having one.
Todd Vaziri@briannawu it's just so hard to fathom
hang on - I literally just spent the last hour on the phone with my health insurance company
Ron DeSantis's BDE@briannawu
Maybe the stock market isn't the indicator of economic health the WSJ thinks it is...
Kids are expensive.
Pēteris Krišjānis@DoesntExist @briannawu don't you tell that slaving for increasingly hoarding top 1% isn't people are looking for? What is this, socialism?
@DoesntExist @briannawu (you have to believe really hard that they are just completely oblivious to reality)
smells of bikes@briannawu there should be a corollary law to Betteridge's law, to describe the situation where a newspaper asks a question not because they want to know the answer but because they want to promote an idea that is largely contradicted by the actual answer.
@briannawu "a 2013 study into computer mediated communication [found] that headline questions posted to twitter increased click through rates in comparison to statement headlines"
So straight up saying "an economy in which kids are unaffordable and a culture where women are undervalued means women have fewer kids" won't get them the sweet, sweet engagement they crave.
So straight up saying "an economy in which kids are unaffordable and a culture where women are undervalued means women have fewer kids" won't get them the sweet, sweet engagement they crave.
djohngo@briannawu
Anti-woke mind virus. Would you breed with someone that listens to Joe Rogan? I wouldn't.
Anti-woke mind virus. Would you breed with someone that listens to Joe Rogan? I wouldn't.
RAK
FrankFrankFrank@briannawu so … I’m not a newspaper, but why do you think? I can think of a couple good reasons, what sticks out to you?
ninavizz@frankfrankfrank It's too expensive to have kids against what it costs to live, and provide them with stability. Simple stability, too expensive. @briannawu
Bennolius 😷⚡@briannawu how will we ever keep increasing consumption if we don't keep the population growing? 😭
David H. McCoyThey would just ask some incels or old dudes.
Robert Watkins@briannawu it’s obviously due to falling sperm counts in men, caused by too much wokeness. No other possible explanation
GATEKEEPER@briannawu
Women be like, "get OFF me"
Women be like, "get OFF me"
Woodswalked@briannawu
<img src="https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/women-are-so-hard-to-read-well-actually-we-just-want-such-complex-creatures-if-you-just-listen-so-mysterious.jpg" alt="Women are so hard to read. Well actually we just want… Such complex creatures. If you just listen… So mysterious"/>
<img src="https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/women-are-so-hard-to-read-well-actually-we-just-want-such-complex-creatures-if-you-just-listen-so-mysterious.jpg" alt="Women are so hard to read. Well actually we just want… Such complex creatures. If you just listen… So mysterious"/>
TransitBiker@briannawu nah. It’s an unsolvable mystery. Facts not allowed in.
Pythia@briannawu you'd think they don't have women working there
oceaniceternity@briannawu has anyone thought to examine the widening gap between rich and poor and the cost of living in general? No?
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A post from The Wall Street Journal @WSJ
"The U.S. birthrate is down sharply from 15 years ago, causing economists to worry about the long-term implications of a shrinking population. Why are American women having fewer children than they say they want?"
ex0du5@briannawu @ben The fact that it is _economists_ whose worry here is being centered is so sociopathic. Especially since many economists have a clear solution for the economic effects of this (increased immigration) which the same sociopathic right wing media would never touch, but like - where is the concern for the reasons this choice away from children is growing? The structural systems pushing people away, the long term outlook on social cohesion, opportunity, a golden future - and the emotional toll of an abusive society, and all that entails? Why isn’t it “psychologists are worried about what this says”?
Always the framing is just naturally about using people for their labor. Almost completely without reflection on what this reveals about the author and the paper’s views more widely.