In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people unhappy and has been generally regarded as a bad move.

There’s definitely queer linemen, the question would be “are there queer linemen spouses defining themselves by their spouse’s job?”

The reason the job is dangerous is because the people doing it are cowboys who don’t take their own (or their coworkers) safety seriously. Presumably because doing so would be insufficiently manly and/or taking the time to do it properly would eat into profit. Like lumberjacking (another “very dangerous” job)- there…

Get off tiktok and get a fucking hobby.

I might suggest that some of this is because majorities get to be comprised of individuals, while minorities are lumped into out groups.

conservative women without lives of their own define themselves by their husbands job because their community doesn’t give them anything more than lip service for being homemakers

Yeah but if they acknowledged that they’d also have to acknowledge their shitty, dead marriage is a shitty, dead marriage.

Have you never met a military spouse or a law enforcement spouse?

I cannot imagine packing another human’s suitcase aside from a child or an ill person. I would never assume my husband’s day-to-underwear ratio.

“Linewife”? I find it so fucking weird and sad that anyone would want to define themselves by what their spouse does for a living. Like, if your spouse decides to to change their career path, do you then become “Accountantwife”? Or do you just crumble into dust and cease to exist?

Once again, social media is living up to its promise of showing us the fascinating lives of others.

This is a good article.

What I find most interesting about this is that it is of a piece with a trend that exists all over the internet: the reification of increasingly minute details of people’s lives into concrete identities.

While I know this job can be dangerous......For FUCKS SAKE your husband isn’t going off to war for a year. Jesus Christ.

Lord knows plenty of the complaints about how internet / social media / mobile devices have wrecked discourse and interpersonal communications are spot the fuck on.

“[I]nto boomer-style commentary about how modern technology is terrible and will inevitably lead to humankind’s downfall.”

Here’s a few other ideas for potential Bondery:

I’m eye-rolling at the fact that you’re so committed to calling me an incel despite the fact that I already explicitly said fuck the incel community. And frankly, no, the reason people hated Daniel Craig is not for the reasons they hate Halle Bailey. The Right can hide behind ridiculous rationales for hating black…

Same - he’s a charming actor with an action-star build, but he still looks like a kid. This was the issue with the Uncharted movie as well. I just don’t buy him as anything older than college-aged.  

I like Tom Holland but he’d be a very poor casting choice as James Bond IMO.