This is actually a great analysis of Hallmark Channel’s Christmas movies, and why their plots frequently center on 30-something year old women who abandon their successful big city lives to move back to their home towns and marry the handsome “boy next door.” It seems to be a very popular fantasy among the network’s primary audience, conservative women aged 50+ (70% of the channel’s viewers.)

    • Uranium3006@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      One observation I read is that were going to rapidly reach a point in this country word tens of millions of elderly people have kids and grandkids who won’t speak to them. There’s going to be an epidemic of estranged family is over this and it’s going to be a rather defining cultural phenomenal of our time. Large parts of an entire generation are clinging to backwards views even at the cost of destroying their own family’s