{"id":80991,"date":"2023-03-27T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=80991"},"modified":"2023-03-26T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T19:13:14","slug":"the-war-against-fertility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/03\/27\/the-war-against-fertility\/","title":{"rendered":"The war against fertility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Bray<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The effacement of women’s bodies is changing from a cultural signal to a battlefield maneuver. The acceleration of the presence of men as dominant participants<\/a> in women’s sports, the growing intensity of casually monstrous blue zone attacks on families and parenting<\/a>, the emergence of drag queens \u2014 men playacting as women, burlesque cartoons about sexual identity \u2014 as The Most Important Symbol Ever<\/a> (and something children should definitely see) …<\/p>\n

… and now this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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That’s footage from a Let Women Speak event in Auckland, New Zealand, where women arguing that “women” are “adult human females” were physically attacked by a mob of “transwomen” \u2014 by men \u2014 and their allies. It’s very progressive when men dressed as women silence women and hurt them. More here<\/a>, also linked above.<\/p>\n

In the opening paragraph of this post, you may have thought that one of the things I mentioned was different than the other things \u2014 that the blue state assault on families and parenting isn’t specifically gendered<\/em>, and is equally an assault on the role of mothers and fathers. And it is. But<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that the very very<\/em> strange thing breaking out all over the world \u2014 or all over the Anglosphere, because I don’t see Nigeria and Peru and Singapore going all-in on transgendered everything \u2014 is loaded with subtext about a febrile loathing for fertility. In policy, we’re incentivizing childlessness, and disincentivizing childbearing. Birthrates are declining sharply, and were declining even before the mRNA injections, while blue state governments work on laws that tell would-be parents their children can vanish from their custody on political pretexts. Who has the future children while the state says that hey, nice family you have there, be a shame if something were to happen to it?<\/p>\n

I suspect the reason so much hate and rage is being directed at women is that their bodies can produce babies, which means that the hate and rage is being directed at the future<\/em>. Peachy Keenan, who’s all over this stuff in multiple forums, wrote recently about Hicklibs on Parade<\/a>, describing “how deeply the postmodern, anti-human gender ideology has penetrated into what we used to call ‘middle America'”:<\/p>\n