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Interesting ideas but I have some big doubts about the last statement. > In the long run social conservatives will win though, because they have way more child

Interesting ideas but I have some big doubts about the last statement. > In the long run social conservatives will win though, because they have way more children than feminists (male and female). Feminist attitudes will simply die out. You know the film Idiocracy? It's a hilariously satirical scifi story based on the premise of "intelligent people reproduce way less than stupid people, therefore intelligence will die out". Which is a very funny idea, but it's just not how selection works. Your example is doubtful for slightly different reasons. Historically, the selection pressure on pieces of information (Feminist attitudes) has always been strongly tied to the reproductive ability of the medium it is embedded in (people). However, that is changing, information is getting loose, first as artifacts, writing, but today it even has forms of agency (computing). The world population will stagnate, which also factors into it. Spreading your genes used to be, but really is no longer a guarantee to also spread your ideas. Or maybe look at it the other way, if things work the way you describe, where did Feminism come from in the first place? How could it ever gain mainstream traction in an environment filled with reproducing conservatives? It's a bit absurd. Also, if the process you describe only affects "the long run", what's stopping Feminism from popping up over and over again in the short term?

mafribe 10y ago
I know Idiocracy, and I like Mike Judge, but I don't really believe that (much of) intelligence is heritable, at least in the way the film suggests. I base my prediction that feminist will die out not so much on abstract theories of information transfer and evolution, but on what I observe in the world. where did Feminism come from This is an interesting question, and I could comment at length on this subject, but maybe HN is not the right venue for this subject matter, especially as what I'd say goes against the ruling SJW orthodoxy.

mafribe 10y ago

I know Idiocracy, and I like Mike Judge, but I don't really believe that (much of) intelligence is heritable, at least in the way the film suggests. I base my prediction that feminist will die out not so much on abstract theories of information transfer and evolution, but on what I observe in the world. where did Feminism come from This is an interesting question, and I could comment at length on this subject, but maybe HN is not the right venue for this subject matter, especially as what I'd say goes against the ruling SJW orthodoxy.