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> Yes, but not much more This is only true if you don’t think women having full personhood is “not much”. Cheap, effective contraception came on the market aro
by acdha 3y ago
> Yes, but not much more
This is only true if you don’t think women having full personhood is “not much”. Cheap, effective contraception came on the market around the same time that women started gaining legal rights, which is also when women were no longer forced into marriage and started to have independent careers of their own, whereas before the main option was motherhood, especially prior to social welfare systems supporting the elderly. It’s not a coincidence that we’re seeing backlash “men’s rights” movements now that a non-trivial fraction of men are learning that they aren’t worth settling for now that social pressure isn’t doing most of the work for them.
> to the extent that we now end the lives of 73 million unborn per year
This is overstating it considerably: it’s about 900k in the United States and 13M globally.
- argiopetech 3y agoIt's also not a coincidence that women's happiness has been falling for decades. We won't be alive to see the final results of this experiment in societal change. I'm not sure I'm sad about this. Ref for 73 mil: https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-worldwide https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-world...
- Jochim 3y agoThe answer isn't to go back to women requiring a husband. The problem is that companies were allowed to capture all of the value of women's emancipation, to the detriment of everyone. Women joining the workforce should have meant two people working 20 hours per week instead of one person working 40. Instead, two person households are working 80 hours and one person households are struggling to get by.