Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "The Handmaid's Tale - What's Come True and What Hasn't (Yet)" video.

The things which are happening in the world are worrying for childfree people like me and for all women. How Afghan talibs treat women nowadays since coming into power; the recent laws in Turkmenistan; Roe v Wade overturned in the USA; polish conservaturds banning almost all abortion; here in Russia they banned childfree and lgbt "propaganda" (actually even mentioning such things would be considered propaganda by those ppl)
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The biggest reason is decline in child mortality. Even in the most regressive countries like Saudi Arabia birth rates are declining, cause demographic transition is triggered by decline in child mortality. And decline in fertility follows, as does bigger acceptance of female equality and contraception. In most pre-industrial countries even natural contraceptive plants which existed were a taboo, cause population needed more birth in order not to collapse from insanely high child mortality. It stopped being a taboo only after a some time after mortality decline. Also, realistically most men don't want to have many kids either in modern societies.
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@veramae4098 "empty". The world would be "empty" with less humans, that is what those authors think? As if humans are the only living being on this Earth. 🤦 Human arrogance and selfishness will never stop to amaze me! One of the reasons why I am an anti-natalist. This species is the worst which happened to life on Earth
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Sure they called themselves communists, but in reality their ideology has nothing to do with communism/socialism.
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@onyx7273 communism is stateless society. By definition. Parties which call themselves "communist" and claim they are trying to reach such society, but actually are doing the opposite, are lying, like CPC or "communist" parties in late USSR and Eastern Europe.
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