A New Type of Modern Women: The Swedish "SOFT WOMEN" | Pearl Daily (youtube.com)
First in first out.
‘You don’t see a lot of men getting gender studies degrees, which is something women are passionate about.' ‘Women tend to take lower paying jobs.' Now, in Sweden, women are opting to quit work, apparently, and calling this ‘soft women.’ This is a SM trend, anyway. While her boyfriend’s working, 'she spends her days at the gym, out for coffee, or cooking.'
Yeah, I think we could say this idea is rolling over now. Once women see other women doing this, they'll probably all jump on board. We saw it start to roll over during the past year or couple years. Girls (and people) hate to not have something other girls are getting, and this can be perceived this way. Girls (and people) also strongly conform, so as they see others doing this, they'll conform to what others are doing. It'll appear in a movie and spread pandemically, and then girl pop singers will champion it.
In Sweden, 14% of girls age 7-14 identifying as soft girls. Aspirational. Some of (older women, not girls) current views that not working might be better is observing older women struggle to juggle a career and home life.
Pearl also notes how SM posts aren't about work, they're about leisure. You don't really see any SM popular posts about work. Exercise and travel. So the culture of under-35s maybe has nothing to do with work. It has something to do with making easy money as influencers or doing online tricks that make money in some cases. Pearl gets frustrated and says ‘Could we just say thank you [to men] for running the whole infrastructure of society, thanks for inventing pretty much everything, statistically' [and not complain if women have to do 10% more housework than men, statistically].
Pearl says nothing original or groundbreaking, just lightly and with some humor talks sort of common sensically. Maybe that's just been exteremly out of fashion (to the point of not being permitted, ie you'd get blame and backlash for voicing it, so people stopped hearing it and later stopped being able to think it), that just saying normal things gets someone massive (counterculture, but perhaps the majority or becomming the majority already) following. Pearl has 1.5m followers on YouTube, not for making series or movies or lectures, just for talking in front of a camera about normal things.