OK, all of this panic about lower birth rates… Is it really that big of a deal? I mean, the planets overpopulated as it is. Can someone clarify this for me? Is it really the crisis people seem to think it is?
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024
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I think it’s treated as a crisis because the economic charts always need to go up. Infinite growth requires people.
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generally a racist/xenophobe thing, there are more than enough people, they're just not the "right kind"
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TOKYO: The leader of a Japanese conservative party has apologised for saying the solution to the nation’s population crisis would be to ban women from getting married after the age of 25 and have their uteruses removed at 30.
Feels like kinda burying the lede here.
oh I would LOVE to have my uterus removed! I tryied but.the doctor keep saying that "you may still want to have kids". IM 40! and I never wanted them until now, really doubt I'll change my mind radically
edit: why don't I have autonomy.over.my own body?
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For all those confused, it's to make younger women into brood mares, and framing this as a "call", when it was one tweet from some deranged jerkoff, is disingenuous clickbait
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That headline is crazy, but then I read the article. Thank goodness it's not a mainstream idea and even other politicians are vocally telling this guy to pump the brakes. I don't think it ever even made it to a formal policy proposal. I suppose that one politician wants to speedrun the decline of Japan or something.
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WHAT?!?
The fact that this was an idea he was able to articulate is either an indictment of his intelligence, an indictment of his respect for women.
Don't they... have... a... population shortage?
I'm so confused
Naoki Hyakuta, a writer and founder of the Conservative Party of Japan, also said that women should not be permitted to attend university from the age of 18, apparently so they could focus their efforts on producing more babies.
The conservative party's solution to declining birthrates is to make it illegal for women to do anything besides have children. What are you confused about?
WOW that's fucked up.
Naah, I was referring more to the headline, as I believe there would be a positive correlation between married women and kids. Banning women to marry = less kids.
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But why? Don't they have a problem with low birthrates?
Insanity and the need to control everything, that's why.