You've spent an incredible amount of time on this article. Thanks for sharing it.
As someone with an interest about the liberal side of anti-humanism, racism and society destruction, i'd like to see those informations more widespread. I appreciate how detail oriented you are, cheers.
What's the source for that women's suffrage graph? Decline in piracy causing global warming logic notwithstanding, the representation of birth rates falling in the 20s intrigues me, because to hear modern feminists tell the story, it's only thanks to the birth control pill that women were freed from mandatory childbearing. I've never found this explanation satisfying, as hormonal birth control even today, let alone in its cruder form sixty years ago, is only marginally more effective than other forms of pregnancy prevention. This is especially true if you're tracking how these techniques are used in practice, where people in general aren't very good about taking their meds.
Could it be because of the great depression? In my view, the most important distinction between the pill and other forms of birth control is that it deprive women of their capacity to take care of the hormonal phase of natural selection, thus creating more and more offsprings that are non-fonctioning reproductive lifeforms, unhealthy and non-desirable for the members of the opposite sex. Of course, so many hours can be spent trying to comprehend all the possible scenarios leading to birth rate falling in many countries.
That would be my guess, but this graph doesn't go into the 40s, and annoyingly, most of the ones that are easy to find start in the 50s. You're right that the pill is more important for giving women agency in their reproductive life than actually prompting a specific outcome, but the decoupling of theory from outcomes is, in my opinion, the main philosophical problem of our era. If interpreted in terms of what the pill actually allows women to do, it's that it gives them less risky access to sexual partners who are big enough asshats they can't be bothered to engage in contraceptive practices themselves. This isn't really beneficial, especially since over that sixty-year arc of history women are now seen as so solely responsible for their own contraception it's turned into another completely different feminist complaint.
You've spent an incredible amount of time on this article. Thanks for sharing it.
As someone with an interest about the liberal side of anti-humanism, racism and society destruction, i'd like to see those informations more widespread. I appreciate how detail oriented you are, cheers.
What's the source for that women's suffrage graph? Decline in piracy causing global warming logic notwithstanding, the representation of birth rates falling in the 20s intrigues me, because to hear modern feminists tell the story, it's only thanks to the birth control pill that women were freed from mandatory childbearing. I've never found this explanation satisfying, as hormonal birth control even today, let alone in its cruder form sixty years ago, is only marginally more effective than other forms of pregnancy prevention. This is especially true if you're tracking how these techniques are used in practice, where people in general aren't very good about taking their meds.
Abortion, however, is generally 100% effective in preventing a given birth from taking place.
Which, to give credit where it is due, has kept the black population of America to only 13%.
Could it be because of the great depression? In my view, the most important distinction between the pill and other forms of birth control is that it deprive women of their capacity to take care of the hormonal phase of natural selection, thus creating more and more offsprings that are non-fonctioning reproductive lifeforms, unhealthy and non-desirable for the members of the opposite sex. Of course, so many hours can be spent trying to comprehend all the possible scenarios leading to birth rate falling in many countries.
Good day to you and your family.
That would be my guess, but this graph doesn't go into the 40s, and annoyingly, most of the ones that are easy to find start in the 50s. You're right that the pill is more important for giving women agency in their reproductive life than actually prompting a specific outcome, but the decoupling of theory from outcomes is, in my opinion, the main philosophical problem of our era. If interpreted in terms of what the pill actually allows women to do, it's that it gives them less risky access to sexual partners who are big enough asshats they can't be bothered to engage in contraceptive practices themselves. This isn't really beneficial, especially since over that sixty-year arc of history women are now seen as so solely responsible for their own contraception it's turned into another completely different feminist complaint.
Good day to you and your family too friend.
Good stuff.