I came across a new way of classifying people today. It seems there is something called a ‘hub-son’. Intrigued by the title I followed a link which took me to something from the New York Post:
“Stay-at-home ‘hub-sons’ are the tradwives of 2025 — and their moms couldn’t be more thrilled”.
Now, I thought that young people in their twenties and even thirties were living at home with their parents because they simply couldn’t afford to do anything else but the New York Post article article told of a 34 year old Luke Parkhurst who gave up a $170,000 a year job as a door to door solar panel salesman and his own independent place to move back to his mother’sl and live rent-free in return for becoming the housewife. “I’m a stay-at-home son,” Luke, from Las Vegas, proudly told The Post. “I do the grocery shopping, cook steak for dinner, clean the pool and fix things around the house.” He went on, “This has been my dream job since I was a little kid,” claiming that the role was his go-to response to those “When I Grow Up, I Want To Be…” homework assignments in elementary school. “My mom is at work right now, she covers everything, and I stay home.”
Well, I have come across women whose sole ambition in life was to be the mother of lots of children, so in this of equality why shouldn’t a man have the ambition to be a stay at home housewife?
As well as being “hub-sons” it seems such young man can also be deemed ‘trad-sons”.
That story came from the USA. Do we have ‘hub-sons” here too? I wonder.
On the subject of children, here’s something for the things-children-say collection. Six year old Grandson Number Two asked his mother yesterday why she had so many children (five in total). Well, because she liked children, she told him and asked him if he thought he would like to have children one day. “Oh, yes”, he replied, “id Incan find a wife!” We had a big family dinner later in the day and judging by way he charmed the socks off his oldest sister’s housemate, talking about insects, monsters, Minecraft and such, he should have no trouble “finding a wife”!
Hub-sons and trad-wives remind us of how fortunate some of us are to live in places where some of us (but still not all as financial constraints come into play) can choose how we want to live. Others are not so fortunate. Here’s a link to an article about a young lawyer in Pakistan trying to fight the “period tax”, the legislation that includes sanitary products in the items that are taxed. Many women there cannot afford sanitary products and are still using and re-using wads of cloth during their periods, a throwback to a former age in our country. Consequently girls are regularly missing school when they have their periods, adding educational disadvantage to other inequalities.,
Then there’s the question of child brides and domestic abuse in Iran. Here’s a link to an article. Thisnis going on in 2025!
Getting back to a less serious tone, here’s the story of someone who married the Eiffel Tower:
“On first meeting, Erika La Tour Eiffel appears extraordinarily ordinary. An ex-US Army soldier, the 36-year-old lives in San Francisco. She is also a former world champion in archery – propelled to success, she believes, by her love for Lance, a bow. She now claims to be married to the Eiffel Tower, following a ceremony with friends last year in Paris, at which she promised eternal love to the iron monument and changed her name legally to reflect the bond. "There is a huge problem with being in love with a public object," she says sadly. "The issue of intimacy – or rather lack of it – is forever present."”
She’s not alone in this; a Swedish woman, Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, married the Berlin Wall and changed her name accordingly. Since the Wall fell eventually, does that make her a widow? And there was a British woman who fell in love with her hifi system, which she said was called Jake. This phenomenon, by the way is known as ‘objectum sexual” and has been around for decades!
It takes all sorts! Let’s be tolerant! There are people declaring their love for AI “personalities”.
Life goes. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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