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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026

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All of this is so silly to me. The answer is women's education reduces women's fertility, and there's no real way around this problem. Women, when given the choice, do not choose children, and so by allowing them to support themselves and choose whether to have kids, they choose not to.

This is loading the question. I was thinking about it a lot and to me one of the major factor is that the whole society is built around women. Women are huge net negatives when it comes to direct welfare costs, they draw more than they pay in taxes. Moreover, women employment is largely in state or semi-state professions like teachers or bureocrats or bullshit jobs. Thirdly, women are using the whole state apparatus in their favor, I would not be the first one to note that in a sense women married state. Just name a government policy and it disproportionally benefits women: progressive taxation, public healthcare, welfare, public employment or even other things like military draft etc.

So in my eyes it is not a simple natural "choice", the whole environment is built so that women do not have any duties and do not shoulder any burden of society - they do not even reproduce. The choice of "hey, here is free stuff and no responsibility" is an artificially created one. They get stuff for themselves and then renege on any responsibility or duty. Just slash government spending to let's say 5% GDP and watch how women fall in line and start to actually plan and work for their security. Suddenly having family and social ties suddenly becomes more important.

I don't disagree with the problems you've listed, and I do think they are serious problems. However, I also am not sure that they would fix the problem. China has one of the worst birth rates in the world, but as far as I know, it has almost none of the same social welfare policies that we do; most Chinese citizens are on their own in regards to providing for their own welfare or paying for their own healthcare.

Of course, they're pretty different styles of country, liberal democratic republics versus authoritarian state capitalist "republics". Maybe the variables are different.

So you're saying the problem isn't women's education, it's women voting, and that the two have never been thoroughly separated enough to notice?

Because the women are voting for those policies which benefit themselves. Women voted to marry the state.

the whole environment is built so that women do not have any duties and do not shoulder any burden of society - they do not even reproduce.

It makes sense to build the entire environment around women, when they are having babies, no different than birds nesting. That's the wrench in the gears. Women have all this advantage because they are the ones who have to have children and that's a lot of work. But they take the advantage and don't fulfill their end of the bargain. They have abandoned their duty, so much that they don't even believe it is a duty any longer.

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