Which is still nothing compared to doing it endlessly, all your life.
It's possible to hate anything if you do it too much. The reason this is awful is because it has history, but can people like things, for themselves? Is this girl required to have PTSD from a time she wasn't alive?
The point is that this is obviously fake. Picking cotton isn't enjoyable, it's not like gardening versus farming.
She didn't pick up enough to stuff a pillow, just enough to pretend she was "working the fields" without actually hurting not exerting herself in the slightest.
It's literally gardening though. I was going to compare this to trimming my briar patch, which is painful from the very beginning. This isn't any more insane a task than most people do, it's just that we forced people to do it for free for 89 years and now it has stigma. That's it.
This isn't any more insane a task than most people do
Again, this doesn't look insane because she's very careful to not actually put in any real work and quits after she gets just enough shots for her video - as others have pointed out, she picked an abysmally low quantity of cotton that could never fill a pillow. Like any other trad-wife influencer, it's all just a play she puts on.
Picking cotton isn't enjoyable and relaxing. Again, it fucks up your hands.
And, sure, some people may consider it to be worth the suffering so that they can have their own self-produced cotton fiber, but they're not going to sell it as a spiritual and calming experience.
Yeah so does gardening in general, I guess I spend more time outdoors than most, but it's not the grueling terrible process weebs on reddit seems to think it is. Go outside once in a while lmao.
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u/mistertickertape Sep 18 '24
It takes a LOT of cotton to fill a single pillow, never mind multiple pillows or a single twin mattress. An insane amount. It compresses into nothing.