in thread "Sub 1.6 TFR = 50% less people in 3 generations. What now?": This meme is getting stale. It's a self-serving rationalization for low sexual agency. The state of men and women both is admittedly dismal, as is the state of marriage culture, and this is a lot of what's gone wrong with fertility, but from the individual... 3d ago (collapse hidden) 55 This meme is getting (view hidden) 55 There's something crooked about this whole fertility discourse. It's all from the perspective of the pensioner-state doing post-national human capital farming, and can't acknowledge what's actually going on. "Oh no we need more taxpayer slaves how can we c... 3d ago (collapse hidden) 66 There's something cr (view hidden) 66 As for how this theory explains the newness and globalness of the fertility crash, I think it's the obvious cultural homogenization happening via the internet. Everyone is converging on a single "westernized" global aspirational culture which is formed dow... 2d ago (collapse hidden) 33 As for how this theo (view hidden) 33 I'm not quite ignoring it. I agree we live in metaphorical "captivity" to gynocracy, and that this is much of the cause of the problem. I'm saying though that this is a skill issue, and if we don't relentlessly interpret it as a skill issue, it becomes a r... 1d ago (collapse hidden) 88 I'm not quite ignori (view hidden) 88