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"Political parties had originally granted women the vote because they believed women would be a compliant, loyal voting bloc—meaning the entire body of people in a country who are legally entitled to vote. Instead, women proved to be fiercely independent, immediately weaponizing their ballots against any politician who took money from the liquor lobby or opposed social welfare programs." So... even though the 18th amendment was passed before the 19th amendment, this AI slop would have us believe that the latter paved the way for the former? That's one magic bullet. And if you compare the states which allowed women to vote before the 18th amendment and states that had banned alcohol before the 19th amendment, you wouldn't find much overlap at all. "In order for women to achieve workplace equality, the traditional domestic infrastructure of the home had to be reshaped. Because the mainstream movement won corporate access but failed to secure state-funded universal childcare, a structural vacuum emerged." Except that working class women had typically gone to work without "universal childcare." And in the middle class it was conventional for unmarried women to work until married and then become a stay-at-home housewife. The AI might not let you outright "lie," but I think you've shown it's easy to get it to twist a bunch of factoids around to get the narrative you want. And AI-generated pieces are notorious for creating slapdash content like this when you ask it to write about things that are unrelated. That's not to say that there aren't some definite parallels between women's liberation and the infantilization of children. As social status based on gender broke down, status based on age grew in importance as giving girls the same freedoms as boys would have been unthinkable (and it's telling that the piece doesn't even mention girls at all). And even if women's liberation had never happened, the gentrification of the workforce would have still resulted in the more white-collar educational environment we now have, though it's nowhere near as disciplinarian as in the bad old days of paddling nuns. And boys diagnosed with ADHD have always been a minority. Just a hodgepodge of someone's shallow theorizing. Not worth the the dataset it was trained on. ![]() |