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Who is it?

Jennifer Love Hewitt? WTF. I need a paper bag rebreather.

What is to be done?
Here is a short list of ideas suggested by this analysis of the Baby Boom. Many of them are compatible with liberal principles, and could be pursued democratically.

Roll back the welfare and pension state and lower income taxes. The transfer of hundreds of billions of dollars a year (in the US) from men to women artificially harms men’s relative economic status, which in turn harms marriage prospects.

Roll back the regulatory state. Women tend to be overrepresented both in government jobs like teaching and in jobs created by government regulation like HR, which artificially inflates their wages relative to their market value.

End Affirmative Action for women and ban (or de facto ban, as similar lobbying organizations for men are) the thousands of organizations, scholarships, and programs that exist to promote women’s career success (particularly in the best compensated and highest status jobs) at the expense of men.

Defund education. Women outperforming men in education seems to be a universal feature of the modern world. This high performance is not matched by corresponding real-world success, meaning that girls are relatively better at school than they are at learning or applying that knowledge. There may be ways of eliminating or reversing this pro-female bias in the school system, but I’m not aware of any successful attempts. But that doesn’t mean nothing can be done. The signaling model of education (see Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education) implies that education is mostly (~80%) a zero sum game, meaning that reducing it across the board would be a social benefit. Defunding higher education entirely would reduce education across the board, making it less attractive and important for both men and women.

Pronatalist monetary incentives should be targeted at married husbands, rather than mothers. If it must be done in a sex-neutral way, then do it in the form of income tax breaks, as married men make the most money and pay the most income taxes. Almost all actually existing incentive programs reverse this, thus reducing women’s incentives to marry.

Roll back the Sexual Revolution. This is easier said than done, and can’t be done through legislation alone9. It would look like once again stigmatizing extramarital sex, ending no-fault divorce, encouraging young marriage as the default life path, and generally making the married nuclear family the normative unit of society again.

Sassy: Opinionated Boor

Sophisticated: High Maintenance

Solvent: Middle Aged Person expecting others to be impressed they can cover their own basic bills.

I presume these ladies have grown kids, or nearly grown kids.

I don't know what this is.

I'm going with "Post-menopausal Polish Feminist West Side Story"

Patrick says

She is legally correct if conception occurred during marriage.

Not true, except in France. In this country, you don't have to sign the birth certificate. That is the first and last time you can deny responsibility. Any support you give the woman after that is "proof" that you consider the child yours. Ask for a DNA test before signing, and see how shit goes down.

How did I come up with the Female Delusion Calculator idea?

During my "dating career" as a man living in North America I couldn't help noticing that women often have unrealistic expectations. They see themselves being passed around by those high quality men they feel entitled for, failing to realize those few men are in high demand. Time passes, options shrink, their standards don't change and they wonder why they are still single.

The stats can prove there're not enough high quality men for every girl out there.

The Female Delusion Calculator is a tool that can help women discern what is realistic from what is highly unlikely.

Enjoy!

The Sci-Fi Future Is Female!

Good news, ladies! Our brave new technocratic world will be empathic, affirming, and safe!

DANIEL D
FEB 13, 2024

A Future-Is-Female Girlboss! Men? MEN?! She don’t need no stinking MEN!!!

“Maybe women should design our sci-fi future?” wondersElle Griffin in her latest post.1 She’s not too keen on the futuristic visions the men have been peddling: people zipping around the galaxy in their sporty spaceships, accompanied by their talking robot assistants as they explore distant planets for signs of life. Such a future seems cold and bleak and scary. What if — now hear me out guys — what if all these toxic men would just move aside and let the sassy, future-is-female girl bosses2 take charge?

Well, I have good news for Ms. Griffin, and for anyone else depressed at the prospect of a patriarchal future: the girl bosses have already won! The feminine sci-fi future is already here! Just look around! Just look at Disney and all the great things Kathleen Kennedy and all her “Force Is Female” girl bosses have been able to do with the Star Wars franchise! That’s the kind of magic you get when you mix sci-fi with girl power!

If you want to know what the feminized future will look like, just imagine another century of progress along the same trajectory we’ve been careening down for the past decade! There will be a global HR Department, which will oversee your reeducation whenever you say anything that hurts anyone’s feelings (unless the person you offend has a lower ranking than you in the victimhood status hierarchy).

“Safety first!” will be the categorical imperative. Want to build something? Have you taken every precaution, reasonable and unreasonable, to ensure that no child will ever stub her toe or get a boo boo using whatever you built? No? Sorry, no building permit for you!

Empathy will be the highest virtue. Want to enforce borders and boundaries? Think you should be able to have exclusionary things like standards? Sorry! We can’t have anyone feel excluded (unless they are at the bottom of the victimhood status hierarchy — i.e., a toxic cis-male hetero-normative white oppressor), so you will have to open up your borders and remove all your boundaries! We’ll replace all the police with social workers, so if anyone less privileged than you tries to take your stuff and you try to call the cops, they’ll send a social worker out to your home to talk to you about what hidden pathologies you have that cause you to want to oppress people by enforcing boundaries!

Affirmation will be the glue that holds society together — of course, such affirmation will be doled out according to your victimhood hierarchy ranking, so if you’re a retarded black trans-female lesbian (like Ibram X Kendi), you will be affirmed, no matter what you say or do!

And imagine how much more we’ll be able to affirm everyone in the future! We’ll be able to perform bottom surgeries on babies in the womb! Heck! We won’t even need wombs anymore! The empowered females of the future will be too busy girl bossing to take time out for maternity leave! We’ll have factory-produced babies who will come with manufacturers’ warranties! Just return your kid if he ever turns out to be defective, and get a brand new one!

And we won’t be limited to gender reassignment surgeries! We’ll be able to do species reassignment surgeries! Your two-year-old just realized that he’s actually a pink female unicorn? Well, her wish will be the healthcare system’s command! She’ll even have a real horn that will grow out of the middle of her forehead!

So I agree with Ms. Griffin: the future men envision in their dreary sci-fi novels is too depressing.3 If there’s one thing we haven’t gotten enough of these past few years, it’s girl power. Thank God (she/her/hers) that the future is female!