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Aside From The Moral Panic Over Men, Should We Be Worried About Modern Women?
The culture war around gender — from what gender is to how genders should behave — has raged forever, but it feels like it got a lot worse and more tedious in the last six or seven years. Everyone has a take (which is a much bigger problem in the modern ecosystem about everything anyway) and now guys like Musk are framing life up as “humanists vs. extinctionists” and stuff like that. It’s a very complicated tapestry that involves:
- Legacy gender roles and assumptions
- Declining fertility rates in industrialized countries
- The existing world vs. the encroaching world
- How little we support new moms (especially in the USA)
- The narrative that men are in decline and women are on the rise
As for (5) above, I agree women have probably had a better last two decades than men, collectively. But I also don’t think the conversation needs to be a dichotomy. Ideally, if you believe in the nuclear family concept, what you’d want is a strong woman and a strong man, who complement each other in various ways, to come together and have their preferred number of offspring. You’d also like to see…
