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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.
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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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Here is a thread I've not seen anyone write: the professional women in SF who shop for sperm donors (mostly lesbians, but some straight single women) ain't rolling up 2 the clinic like, "show me the Big Book o' Underachievers!," whatever they say publicly about hereditary traits.
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When you're in the home birth yoga class with your partner & women are comparing notes on their baby's donor, it's like "my boy is from a four-time olympic gold medalist & ivy league doctor, & I'm trying to get the same guy for my girl." At least, that's my experience.
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Regression to the mean is a very real phenomenon wrt to the extreme positive traits these donors have (or, in some cases, exaggerate having) and this sometimes puts a lot of unreasonable pressure on the poor kids. Lots of examples in this book:https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Factory-Curious-History-Nobel/dp/0812970527/ …
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