From what I've seen — and please correct me if this is changing — the left has a very real problem with acknowledging female fertility issues. They've framed the "biological clock" issue much like Better Living Through Chemistry with no real interest in the state of the field
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The reality: egg freezing and IVF are still very expensive crapshoots, women tend to hit a fertility cliff and the age at which that occurs is variable, and "pregnancy as a service" ignores a whole hormonal cascade honed over our entire evolutionary history to prevent abandonment
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FWIW, during its heyday the religious right played into the narrative of a widely-accessible medicalized fertility boon by creating panic re: a surplus of never-to-be-born embryos. In reality, most IVF cycles fail, and rising costs are a greater barrier than disinterest
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The right *also* played into this system in a roundabout way by pointing to adoption as an easy alternative to abortion w/o acknowledging that the trauma of the former might be greater than the trauma of the latter. This inadvertently preempted justifiable concerns re: surrogacy
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Modern feminism has many problems. Their lack of empathy, even hostility toward men (see The Red Pill documentary) makes me want to stay far away from these types. We can save a few souls that aren't too deep into it.
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I haven’t read it, but Sophie Lewis’ Full Surrogacy Now seems an interesting development in radical feminist theory
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Admittedly, this level of radicalism is often disconnected from everyday life, unless & until the ideas filter into mainstream discourse
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Lisa Frank as in, childish?
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i’m totally out of the loop here, any good reads on this surrogate issue?
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What about biting the antinatalist bullet?
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Having children or not is a personal choice. But when many people don't have children as a result of a large societal movement, we have a problem.
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take: as long as feminism doesn't tackle exploitation issues re: e.g. surrogacy, it's a Lisa Frank movement. Female equivalent of Peter Pan syndrome. I'm not holding my breath, bc immature women who neglect themselves to stick to the party line will need surrogates.