Honestly, I don’t know if it’s even that. I can’t think of a society where standard of living, healthcare, life expectancy, etc. have increased without birth rates decreasing. Not all women are ever going to want children, and the ones who do aren’t necessarily going to want 2 or 5 or 10 or however many you would need…

I reckon the consequences of climate change would be even more terrible for the economy, no?

Also, with so many menial and not so menial jobs getting automated, I really don’t understand why governments keep wanting people to just create more children for the sake of creating more.

Wow did Mussolini waste his time fucking around with trains or what

Actually, the government really shouldn’t fix anything. A low birthrate is the best way to bring down poverty long term.

It’s surprising, actually. Having fewer or no kids is actually the solution to many of the world’s problems, not the problem. If every couple on the planet had 0-2 children at a maximum, you’d see poverty rates decline very rapidly. Northern Italy, in fact, has one of the lowest birthrates on the planet coupled with…

If only there were hordes of people trying to come into the country to live, work, and help its population’s growth curve... Wait, not THOSE people? Oh, only the white ones? Nevermind, can’t wait for your country to crumble.

Italian couples aren’t having children because they’re not having sex or because they don’t want to – it’s because the government provides very little support for families with children and because the main source of childcare in Italy is family.

Does it even work like that? Population growth/decline, I mean. There’ll be big issues around aged care later down the track if there is less births but the population doesn’t die, does it? There’s just less people, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

No, that still sounds like porn.

They realize that hourglasses are designed to be flipped over again, right? This is not the scary “your time is running out” image they were looking for.

Gabriel told her she will be impregnated. That whole passage (Luke 1:26-38) is basically an angel saying “you’re gonna get pregnant from magic because god said so” and Mary responding “well OK then”. There’s really no other way she could have responded. Also, keep in mind that this is a third party’s decades-later…

How exactly does not doing a physical activity require endurance anyway? Are people just tossing cock at her and she has to constantly dodge it or something?

At the risk of getting into a theological argument, two things should be noted.

It just occurred to me Bryan really doesn’t even need feminism - she could have achieved being an unmarried virgin centuries ago.

So she volunteered? Or Gabriel said it’s happened and she was just like “’kay”? The timeline here is crucial. Did Gabe tell her she will be impregnated, or that she had been?

God violated Mary right? I mean, that’s what I took away from the story. Explains a lot about Christianity, now that I think about it. Jesus was the son of a rapist (unless Mary prayed to be impregnated by the invisible cloud monster; in which case, never mind).

It’s not 1697 anymore! Sex does equal a mandatory baby and now you have to get married lest shame befall the family.

Yeah I mean I feel like this lady thought she’d get more intrigue by a click baity title. There’s nothing inherently feminist about abstinence, in fact I’d say if your motivation is based on a commandment from a patriarchal religion then there’s an argument to be made that it is not feminist at all. I really don’t…

I wore a one piece recently that made me look both slutty and frumpy at the same time. I was impressed by that but will never wear the swimsuit again.