It destroys more than just the TFR:
Every society faces a fundamental choice. Either deny men what they observably and actually prefer or deny women what they think they prefer in theory. Across the West, the last 60 years have been an experiment in the latter. Women have been given the red carpet treatment in the corporations, in the universities, and even in the men’s locker rooms. Divorces and custodies have been granted on demand. Pregnancies have been prevented. Babies have been aborted. Obesity and ugliness have been celebrated. The churches have been de-doctrinated and literally neutered. Refugees have been welcomed. The insane have been liberated from their asylums.
And yet, not only are women unhappier than they were before being granted their collective societal bucket list, men are increasingly opting out of every form of participation in society.
I think he meant to say that the last 60 years have been an experiment in the former, but either way, yes. I'm not a fan of his but he's right, and you can't deny that we have done it that way, and that women are none the happier as a result.
ReplyDeleteHowever, you know ours is an insane generation, so until an equal and opposite reaction forces a change, they'll keep on doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
VD sometimes has some interesting insight. Though I don't always agree with him;)
ReplyDeleteThe post was about the fact that when women start joining a profession en masse (and it starts with schooling) men then drop out. Case in point. 25 years ago there was not one female paramedic in my city. OK, may be there was one, but I never came across her. Now it's full well half of them. What is worse, women get preferential treatment and there are places reserved for them in medical school. They then proceed to work part-time. A male doctor used to work full time to support his family but now he marries a female doctor (a high earner) and works part-time, too. The result? A shortage of doctors.
And it's one of the favourite feminist talking points, if women stop working, who will then be doctors? Well, men will, as it used to be not so long ago.