1065
Being a woman (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
175 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

how are we going to figure out how to have every woman average 2.1 babies?

Taking away abortion rights and forcing women out of education and careers to stay home.

Well, that's how they're trying to do it in the US right now.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Yup. That's exactly the play.

    I was hoping for a more liberal-minded solution, but it probably requires radically smaller communal living, more intergenerational. Even if everything's paid for, having two kids is a real sacrifice, but triply so if you're living alone and your grandparents are dead and your parents live an hour away.

    Also check out Britt Hartley's video on Christian men. Religion is traditionally the place for women to have babies and be communal and shit but Christianity is so besotted with female oppression that the light is turning on in the minds of Christian women: Christian men are NOT safe partners.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCMbGBnDh8

    And you're absolutely right. The terrifying thing is that toopush women into having babies again--at least by force--you have to strip away 100 years of rights and close every avenue and loophole out to an independent life and an independent mind. Just banning abortion is not enough. You have to close schools, forbid employment, ban loans, etc.

    Women, especially you majority-Trump-voting white women: take note.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    It gets really frustrating seeing the conversations around falling birthrates. Everyone only wants to talk about the economy and social safety nets while ignoring the real driving cause - women's rights.

    This is a manufactured crisis in order to control women.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I think the crisis is as real as any crisis we're currently ignoring. The left can use it to argue for their policies, and the right can use it to argue for theirs. Neither side is willing to let it go as long as it has political utility.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent