I feel this sort of joke is more or less poking fun at fashy great replacement rhetoric by neo-nazis, a not insignificant proportion of which worryingly and at times unironically advocate for bringing back the Volksgemeinschaft. In pre-war Nazi Germany, single women and childless couples were taxed for holding jobs as part of a program to give loans to people with children. Women who had “racially impure relations” were paraded through the street and sent to concentration camps. And immodest clothing was forbidden. Men weren’t explicitly given wives by the state, but every social and financial pressure imaginable was placed on women who did not conform to the image of the ideal aryan housewife. These pressures would have pushed women to settle for relationships they wouldn’t have considered otherwise.
The USSR had a similar policy of taxing the childless, but it only affected childless men (including bachelors) and childless married women. Thus, the financial pressure was on men to find a wife (not ideal, but the cost tapered off over the years), whereas women could be and often were fairly sexually liberated until settling down with a partner.
I don’t think any serious socialist or communist doesn’t consider women’s liberation a huge part of the cause.
Maybe that’s unfair though, idk. Like there’s definitely something objectifying about them, but then again you could say that about literally any commodity that depicts women. At least body pillows are nice and comfortable, and afaik they help some people with their back and/or sleep problems. If someone has a body pillow and it just so happens to have their anime waifu on it, who am I to judge them? Then again, then again, if you’re the type of person to get a waifu body pillow I’m pretty sure you’re also the type to hump it and pretend it’s your girlfriend. Then AGAIN then again THEN AGAIN so what? It is just a pillow, and if it can make a lonely person feel a bit less lonely then that’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned. But also like what does that say about society?
Ummm if you pick the USSR I’m pretty sure you are eventually given a state sanctioned anime girlfriend. If I’m remembering my history right.
I would laugh but the thought of women being passed around like public property makes me sad
I feel this sort of joke is more or less poking fun at fashy great replacement rhetoric by neo-nazis, a not insignificant proportion of which worryingly and at times unironically advocate for bringing back the Volksgemeinschaft. In pre-war Nazi Germany, single women and childless couples were taxed for holding jobs as part of a program to give loans to people with children. Women who had “racially impure relations” were paraded through the street and sent to concentration camps. And immodest clothing was forbidden. Men weren’t explicitly given wives by the state, but every social and financial pressure imaginable was placed on women who did not conform to the image of the ideal aryan housewife. These pressures would have pushed women to settle for relationships they wouldn’t have considered otherwise.
The USSR had a similar policy of taxing the childless, but it only affected childless men (including bachelors) and childless married women. Thus, the financial pressure was on men to find a wife (not ideal, but the cost tapered off over the years), whereas women could be and often were fairly sexually liberated until settling down with a partner.
I don’t think any serious socialist or communist doesn’t consider women’s liberation a huge part of the cause.
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What about body pillows?
Depends on the body pillow.
Sexy anime waifu pillow = sad
Big pillow = happy
Maybe that’s unfair though, idk. Like there’s definitely something objectifying about them, but then again you could say that about literally any commodity that depicts women. At least body pillows are nice and comfortable, and afaik they help some people with their back and/or sleep problems. If someone has a body pillow and it just so happens to have their anime waifu on it, who am I to judge them? Then again, then again, if you’re the type of person to get a waifu body pillow I’m pretty sure you’re also the type to hump it and pretend it’s your girlfriend. Then AGAIN then again THEN AGAIN so what? It is just a pillow, and if it can make a lonely person feel a bit less lonely then that’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned. But also like what does that say about society?
… does that answer your question?
I was just making waifu body pillow joke.
Oh. I thought we were going to have a philosophical discussion about body pillows :(