I might quibble about details, but the overall message is Truth.
I might quibble about details, but the overall message is Truth. Stop judging women by their reproduction or lack thereof. You can't win.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/03/childless-women-are-not-necessarily-workaholics.html?google_editors_picks=true
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/03/childless-women-are-not-necessarily-workaholics.html?google_editors_picks=true
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/03/childless-women-are-not-necessarily-workaholics.html?google_editors_picks=true
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/03/childless-women-are-not-necessarily-workaholics.html?google_editors_picks=true
On a related note, in the run-up to the vote in Norway on whether general conscription should be expanded to women, a number of otherwise feminist organizations presented notes to the effect that women were serving the country by reproducing and therefore should not undergo mandatory training in preparation for mobilization.
ReplyDelete(The law was made gender-neutral in the end anyway.)
The connection to this article would be the notion that "if you don't have anything better to do, it is your duty to make babies."
I would definitely not have signed on to that perspective. If you're gonna conscript, conscript everybody. First of all, women can fight and have, in some sense, even more reason to know how to defend themselves. Many are the countries and historical cases where this has been shown.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, you claim this, you get dystopias where women are rounded up and impregnated to produce more soldiers as needed. For the country. Sadly, not just in fiction, because there are also historical examples of various versions of this.