On Pronatalism: Evolving Gender Roles & Family Planning for the Neo-Nuclear Family.
We need to talk about pronatalism.
So far, the entire online discourse surrounding pronatalism is dominated primarily by men, and it’s no mystery why. No, it’s not that women don’t want to engage in discourse about pronatalism and family planning. From time to time, I do see a woman say something during the conversations surrounding pronatalism. However, this is extremely rare. It’s extremely rare primarily because the men who are attracted to pronatalism comprise one of the most misogynistic, condescending, hateful, resentful, and hostile groups of people I’ve ever encountered on the internet, and that’s saying a lot! I’ve scoured the ugly and repulsive depths of 4chan; the disturbingly dark corners of dark web forums; the pitiful and tragic qualms on the now-banned redpill subreddit; and, a whole variety of the hate-filled anonymous forums that are scattered across the clearnet.
The pronatalist movement, as it currently exists today, primarily consists of screeching men who not only frequently publicly live-tweet their temper tantrums about declining relative birthrates in the West for the entire world to witness, but go even further to viciously attack, degrade, and maliciously manipulate women with career ambitions. Normally, and up until now, I’ve simply ignored, muted, and blocked these annoying crybabies and jackasses.
Elon Musk’s Contributions to Amplifying Pronatalism Discourse on his Platform, X
However, now that the owner of the X (formerly known as Twitter) platform, Elon Musk has decided to take on pronatalism as one of the causes to add to his hobby of LARPing as a social justice warrior influencer, pronatalism content and discourse is now being promoted and propagated through the entire platform thanks to his engagement with it. Yes, you heard me right, Elon. You are indeed a social justice warrior. I understand your concerns about “the woke mind virus” and fighting the societally-destructive communist ideology that has infected the political leftwing is a noble and worthwhile cause. For this, I applaud you.
However, you’ve gone so far in fighting leftwing politics and ideology that you’ve entirely wrapped around to the other extreme of the political spectrum; thus, actualizing the concept known in political theory as Horseshoe Theory; and, validating it through your very own lived experience, behaviors, and, I can only presume, your beliefs. That is, in your efforts to avoid falling victim to “the woke mind virus” (as you refer to it), or what polite society refers to as far-left extremism, which varies from social anarchism, democratic socialism, other more nuanced forms of socialism and communism, to all-out authoritarian communism, you ended up at the polar opposite end of the political spectrum, in the realms of far-right extremism.
So, while you (Elon) have publicly made claims implying that you’re closer to a political centrist on numerous occasions, the evidence that’s demonstrated by your behavior and the causes you choose to promote on your platform beg to differ. If cognitive dissonance is getting in the way of allowing you to see the way you now present yourself online, there’s a plethora of examples within your activity on X that demonstrates your political alignment resting firmly within far-right extremism. To be completely clear: in your fight against far-left extremism and “woke” ideology, you’ve wrapped entirely around to now habitually perpetuate and promote the ideology and propaganda of far-right extremism. Commonly, and presumably unknowingly (at least, I hope unknowingly), you even have gone as far as to promote and engage in FSB (The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) propaganda and disinformation campaigns, which now proliferates throughout your platform more so than ever over the course of the last few months; and frankly, my main concern for you is that I’m not sure there’s a single person in your life anymore who isn’t petrified of you with enough courage to tell you the truth and point out the propaganda you’ve fallen victim to now. In other words, you’ve lost your balance in your flight from one extreme only to end up with your beliefs captive to those at the other extreme; and, now the sycophants whom surround you have blinded you from seeing this, Elon.
As I see it, the pronatalist movement, as it exists in its present form today, unironically has approximately the same chance of succeeding as communism, and, putting the practical dysfunctions and failures of communism aside, the pronatalist movement will fail to even launch primarily for the exact same reason communism perpetually fails to launch in the United States. That reason is because, just like the supporters of the communist movement in the United States that we’ve come to know and despise, the vast majority of the supporters of the pronatalist movement in the United States are just as hostile, repulsive, barbaric, and idiotic as the communists that you’ve devoted so much time and resources to fighting their braindead and destructive ideological politics. The reason both communism and pronatalism will inevitably fail to launch is that the supporters of both of these ideology-based political movements perpetually alienate individuals, who may otherwise be allies in the fight, from participating in and contributing to these movements due to the unprompted abuse and hostility from the majority of the movement’s current group of supporters. Don’t get me wrong. I’m for pronatalism. I want to see a trillion human beings proliferate across the galaxy and realize humanity as an interplanetary species.
A Personal Experience Demonstrating the Problem Within Pronatalism’s Cultural Problem
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