| ▲ | fhdkweig 3 hours ago | |||||||
I don't think they are trying to control men. I'm not seeing any evidence of that. When I see a law that attacks women, it is very clearly targeted towards women, but I don't see anything that clearly targets men. | ||||||||
| ▲ | philipov 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Controlling women means controlling men. The most basic way to do that is by controlling who is allowed to get married. Attacks against the reproductive rights of women are caused by a desire to avoid "side channels" by which a couple could avoid passing through the systems established to control marriage. Society became much more complex than a tribal village where the elders decide everything, and so have the levels of indirection in how control of reproduction is wielded. The situation is also quite a bit more complicated now that populations are able to grow so far above the local carrying capacity of the land. Yet we can still trace a line back to when it was necessary for a community to collectively maintain the sustainability of their population by deciding how many children could be supported at any one time. | ||||||||
| ▲ | lelanthran 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
> When I see a law that attacks women, it is very clearly targeted towards women, but I don't see anything that clearly targets men. Drafts? They typically only targeted men, with a large possibility of maiming or death as the result. | ||||||||
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