This is not some new feminist discovery, this is just patriarchy Do you understand that in your scenario the population only actually does rebound in one generation if that 10% of surviving men each impregnates 9x as many women, whether they like it or not https://twitter.com/redclaireopatra/status/1287225388792512512 …
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Replying to @itstuff4 @EllieFragment
It is the direct logical implication of her celebration of the idea that the population would "bounce back" in her "almost all men die" fantasy
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Replying to @itstuff4 @EllieFragment
No, I personally do not, which is why I do not believe the population would bounce back -- there would be a massive population crash in either scenario because in practice people would not voluntarily offer up their bodies to repopulate the species, nor should they
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Rhetoric about how uteri are a precious resource for the good of the species as a whole ("The next generation must be created") is an explicit stepping stone toward justifying reproductive coercion
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The Janice Raymond line seems to be to accept this as inevitable and treat it as a negotiation ("You can have access to the precious, precious wombs of womankind in return for the following concessions") This sounds like a defense of bodily autonomy but it really isn't
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I just said that I don't automatically believe that they would, but the belief that women's value comes from reproduction implicitly concedes the idea that they would
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