Study of 61 nations finds higher sexism predicts lower GDP, lower "global peace index" (more militarization, lower safety and security), greater antidemocratic practices & shorter lifespans. Sexism truly harms us all, men, women, children.
https://theconversation.com/sexism-linked-to-social-ills-for-men-and-women-finds-largest-cross-cultural-study-of-its-kind-247183
The nations with the highest sexism also have the most rapidly declining birth rates.
Russia. Korea. Japan. USA. Afghanistan.
All societies poisoned by toxic attitudes of male supremacy blameshift to women's rights for their demographic decline.
Consequences.
Why have children in a nation where the next generation has no hope of improving conditions?
Why form a marriage when it means a lifetime of exploitation & mistreatment?
Why have a family when MAGA oppose all ...
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...all support for those children?
No help with housing, medical care, food, or education.
Early childbirth is the leading predictor of a poverty stricken retirement for women.
Fascist movements always end in war. Why raise kids to feed a forthcoming war machine?
https://jacobin.com/2022/08/capitalism-low-birth-rate-labor-abortion-contraceptives-childcare
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/technology/replacement-theory.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/30/russia-putin-antifeminism-women-children-society/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/business/sexism-women-birthplace-workplace.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/opinion/american-birthrate-patriarchy.html
https://www.iar-gwu.org/blog/iar-web/south-koreas-4b
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/opinion/south-korea-fertility-rate-feminism.html
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The same GOP oil oligarchs funding climate denialism & racism want children & grandchildren for the planet they are frying & the democracy they immiserated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/anti-natalism.html
Why have children where lawmakers ensure women bleed to death in hospital parking lots?
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
Or a "health" insurance system that declines 40% of health claims or drives OBGyn caregivers out?
why should people breed work beasts (Jack London) for billionaires?
Their interests are counter to the interest of populations. It’s extraordinarily idiotic.
They don’t have workers, but they don’t expect to need them because AI. They don’t have customers, but they don’t want customers because they don’t pay people enough to have disposable income.
The devastation they’ve wrecked on education, respect for science or expertise, undermines science.
They’ve made it illegal to engage in a fundamental process of refinement in technological advancement, which is to reverse engineer, and tinker with existing designed.