How a mix of female empowerment and steamy soap operas helped bring down Brazil’s fertility rate

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I think it is the same mortal moral illness afflicting the rest of the developed world. People still worried about overpopulation are badly outdated. Momentum due to longer life expectancy will enable global population growth rates for another couple decades. Past that, this planet is in for a totally unprecedented experience of population implosion that no prior human civilization has ever really recovered from. Population crashes like the one coming have always come with chaos and barbarism.

The root cause is the same everywhere. An honest and true recognition of how mistreated women have been over the centuries was distorted and twisted from something potentially very good into something appalling. Instead of changing society to reflect the fact that bearing and rearing children is the most precious human activity of all, the feminists allied with the mysoginists and agreed that “being a baby factory” is demeaning, degrading and inherently a second rate vocation.

Take heart, you moms out there. I, for one, think you’re worth more than all the doctors, lawyers, firemen and engineers put together. It’s suicidal society that says you’re not.
 
Yes, they were all Catholic. Yes, the church hierarchy disapproved. No, none of them much cared; they were women of faith, but in some matters the male clergy is perhaps not wholly equipped to discern the true will of God. The lady was pouring tea into china cups at her dining table as we talked, and her voice was matter-of-fact. “Everyone was doing it,” she said.
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This is the greatest internal threat, added with all the outside threats like contraception and the secular world promoting or forcing the idea of child-bearing as being something costly and degrading.

It seems the whole Catholic Population has become solely culturally Catholic. They go through the motions because their parents took them to Church and because everyone else goes, however the moment any of the clergy try to guide them down a path they don’t like they tell brush them off-claiming their just old men who don’t understand the modern world!

They’ll take the benefits to themselves that comes with being a Catholic, but Lord save you if you ever try to actually preach Christian Morality to them!

And by the way National Geographic, they are NOT women of faith! :mad:
 
manualman said:
I think it is the same mortal moral illness afflicting the rest of the developed world. People still worried about overpopulation are badly outdated. Momentum due to longer life expectancy will enable global population growth rates for another couple decades. Past that, this planet is in for a totally unprecedented experience of population implosion that no prior human civilization has ever really recovered from. Population crashes like the one coming have always come with chaos and barbarism.

The root cause is the same everywhere. An honest and true recognition of how mistreated women have been over the centuries was distorted and twisted from something potentially very good into something appalling. Instead of changing society to reflect the fact that bearing and rearing children is the most precious human activity of all, the feminists allied with the mysoginists and agreed that “being a baby factory” is demeaning, degrading and inherently a second rate vocation.

Take heart, you moms out there. I, for one, think you’re worth more than all the doctors, lawyers, firemen and engineers put together. It’s suicidal society that says you’re not.
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Interesting POV.

And mostly true.

Good show. 👍👍
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
Apparently the ideal of feminism is the refusal to do what the female was created for.

Contrary to the will and intention of God. Of the Devil. Simple enough.
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So you’re saying women are just for making babies then:rolleyes:
 
manualman said:
I think it is the same mortal moral illness afflicting the rest of the developed world. People still worried about overpopulation are badly outdated. Momentum due to longer life expectancy will enable global population growth rates for another couple decades. Past that, this planet is in for a totally unprecedented experience of population implosion that no prior human civilization has ever really recovered from. Population crashes like the one coming have always come with chaos and barbarism.

The root cause is the same everywhere. An honest and true recognition of how mistreated women have been over the centuries was distorted and twisted from something potentially very good into something appalling. Instead of changing society to reflect the fact that bearing and rearing children is the most precious human activity of all, the feminists allied with the mysoginists and agreed** that “being a baby factory” is demeaning, degrading and inherently a second rate vocation.
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That has always been the worldly (e.g. dominant) point of view, generally speaking:shrug:
 
AngryAtheist8 said:
That is not an answer.
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Neither is that.

I never implied that females’ only duty is to “make babies”, but it is an indisputable fact that females are the only members of the species that can actually have babies, thus it is part of their divine mission.
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
Neither is that.

I never implied that females’ only duty is to “make babies”, but it is an indisputable fact that females are the only members of the species that can actually have babies, thus it is part of their divine mission.
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Really:rolleyes:

Here is what you actually wrote:

Originally Posted by Scott_Lafrance
Apparently the ideal of feminism is the refusal to do what the female was created for.
Contrary to the will and intention of God. Of the Devil. Simple enough.

Now its worth noting that you didn’t say that reproduction was one of the things the female was created for, or even the main thing. You simply said that it was* the *thing females were created for.
 
Monte_RCMS said:
I guess you had to actually read the article and then research the many references.
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I read the article, and I was not impressed.

Western conservatives blaming communists and Jews for things that they don’t like happens so often its a cliche:shrug:

I would say nice try but that would be a lie.
 
Monte_RCMS said:
I guess you had to actually read the article and then research the many references.

Or, try this:

newsbusters.org/node/3917

Or, here:

thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/09/29/61952/schlafly-feminism/

Or … feminism doesn’t liberate women:

radioboston.wbur.org/2011/03/18/suzanne-venker
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Regarding your second source, I consider Phyllis Schlafly the vilest sort of hypocrite.

Like Ann Coulter she is a woman who has gotten rich and famous making a career out of telling women they shouldn’t try to be rich and famous. Completely ignoring the fact that her career and achievements in the public square were only possible thanks to the victories of feminists in years past (such as the suffragettes).
 
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