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5 Aug 2026 Conversations with Tyler Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy
“I think that started to change in the last decade or two among an educated urban elite, where fathers wanted to be present at the birth, they wanted to be very active, involved parents, but that’s a tiny sliver of the educated white-collar class.”
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…He’s not going to do household chores either, right? Oh, God, no. He’s not going to change diapers, and he’s really not going to be around to help raise the kid. I think that started to change in the last decade or two among an educated urban elite, where fathers wanted to be present at the birth, they wanted to be very active, involved parents, but that’s a tiny sliver of the educated white-collar class. The woman has to be very, very strong, and she has to wait in line to get foodstuffs and be pushy and make barter deals. This breeds this class of Russian or Soviet women who are just like superwomen. Is that a good simple model of it?…
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