It's artful but poisonous: if you aren't a feminist you're a
misogynist. It's "heads I win, tails you lose", isn't it? Pointing out
structural flaws in feminism -- which even many feminists are starting
to do -- doesn't mean you hate women, it means there are, at least
potentially, structural flaws to feminism. As in: this is insupportable
in the long term. I wrote about the flaws twenty years ago and ten
years ago and we seem to have gotten to where I said we were going. The
U.S. is at the end of five consecutive years of large drops in the
replacement birth rate. Pointing that out and pointing out that it's
the result of deciding ALL woman have to be out in the workforce -- with
a small minority NOT out in the workforce and having babies and
hand-rearing them -- that doesn't mean I hate women. It means there's
been five consecutive years of large drops in the replacement birth
rate. We're starting to disappear, starting with our economy. To me,
RATIONALLY, we, as a society need to discuss what percentage of women
can be out in the workforce before we begin committing societal suicide
-- "disappearing up our own inevitability" as George says in WHO'S
AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF. 50% of the world's population is responsible
for 100% of the world's births, so there's a specific percentage we
can't exceed, it seems to me, however we decide WHO works and has one
baby at 35 and WHO stays home and has five babies between age 20 and 35.
For me, the survival and success of our society supersedes whatever
might be done to me -- and has been done to me -- for wanting to have an
intelligent discussion about central problems. If I have to sacrifice
my own life to keep alive that possibility well, as it says in the
Koran, "some serve God in but a single point." I suspect this might be
my single point.
-Dave Sim
-Dave Sim
