What’s the Deal With AWFLs?
24th April 2022
First off, AWFLs (I love that acronym: “affluent white female liberal”) seem to have relatively fixed notions of what constitutes personal security.
Credentialism. If you took the right course or earned the right certificates you are entitled to the matching job. I recall seeing a video of then Gov. Chris Christie facing a hostile crowd of teachers. A woman stood up and declared that because she had a master’s degree, she was entitled to a certain guaranteed salary level. When Christie said that if her degree were actually that valuable, why not take it out into the job market and get paid for it. There was a brief “does-not-compute” moment by her and then the crowd followed with angry outbursts.
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Guarantees. Women are by nature more risk-averse than men. “Safety net”, “single-payer” and anything else that sounds like it reduces the possibility of loss tends to be welcomed, especially by single women. Increased taxes only fall on the rich so that becomes the cognitive equivalent of having Daddy pay for it, which is the least he can do after having abandoned …