Rather than “breathtakingly offensive,” Gaetz’s observation that, ““For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement” proved to be spot on analysis of the 2024 election, and this piece an insight into the bubble that liberals have placed themselves.
As a 52-year-old married mom of two daughters, educator, Gen-Xer, even Hispanic! what is it that is ‘breathtakingly offensive’ about Gatz’s Karen/Jamal/Julio comment? It’s TRUE. Y’all are so thin-skinned it’s breathtaking.
South Korea like Japan bemoans a lack of children. This is not an ideology issue. This is a men not helping issue.
Would you take a job with no pay, retirement and destroys any career advancement outside the home.
This job also includes taking care of ungrateful and abusive in-laws. Not to mention making you financially dependent on your spouse, which further distorts an already tilted power dynamic.
401 K for moms? Don’t hold your breath. If you live in Tokyo or Seoul you simply can’t afford to have kids.
Learn a little bit about the rest of the world and quit trying to make everything political.
So the way to have more children in the country is for everyone to embrace abortion on demand. Makes perfect sense.
But seriously, I recently had a conversation with a fellow priest who chaplained a Rachel's Vineyard retreat for women who've had abortions and are in the process of healing from this, and he mentioned to me that the vast majority of the stories told there were of women stuck in rotten relationships. It is common sense that a mother who doesn't feel secure with her own husband will be more tempted to eliminate something -- or rather, someone -- that would increase her vulnerability. So I agree that this needs to be dealt with societally.
But let's think this through a little. How much of the problem is economics, how much politics, and how much culture? It's a lot about economics, which is why the neoliberal globalist order is not only destroying countries by destroying family life and good work, but is also destroying itself thereby. This is to say nothing of the obscene costs of healthcare in this country, including care for mothers. Politics? Very little, really, I suspect, except to subordinate the economic issues to common sense once more.
The biggest problem is cultural, as everywhere. American culture is absolutely poisonous to men, whether it be forcing them into school models that are more for fit for women's learning patterns or exposing them non-stop to pornography. And this culture is being exported all over the world. First Wave feminism, if I am correct, understood that well-cultivated, virtuous men were essential for women's well-being. This aim has completely been lost. Why? Because feminism chose contraception and abortion instead, with the goal now being "equality," and men were happy to sign on: no consequences! And anyways, there was that problem of "over population" that needed to be dealt with... certainly not the issue of the future!
So if you REALLY want to know why women don't want men around them anymore, look over at the Waves of feminism that have created a culture that can only shape men into monsters, and women into little better than female versions of the same. On the upside, "equality" is being achieved, isn't it? An equality of monstrosity? What else explains the transgender movement?
Anybody who wants to escape all this madness is welcome to become a Catholic Christian. The Church has been afflicted by a lot of the same craziness, and we are not guiltless in contributing to it, but at least we have the doctrine that can lead the way out, by God's grace. Because this really is a problem that only obedience to God will solve, dear liberals. Secular neutrality just can't do it: by displacing God, a void is created into which evil things can enter. It's your choice: choose Life.
It’s not a wonder the boys are taking their ball and going home. Thanks for writing an article about birth rates with obvious male, conservative bias - citing a poll about “marital rape” and Republicans?! Ugh!
I always find it odd that abortion opponents are often framed as being opposed to women's rights, or at the very least women's "healthcare" alternatives, and often as mean, misogynistic men, when every person I've ever known who was an anti-abortion "extremist" (defined as someone who would vote first and foremost on the issue of abortion and willing to protest against it), were women, including my sainted mother.
So conservative folks will seek each other out and have kids while the folks on the other side die off. It will be messy for a while but it does sound like this is a problem that will solve itself.
There are no apps or government programs that will solve the childlessness problem. Good families need to be visible and active.
I know there are a lot of people who still don’t want to hear this, but we need to go back to church. We need to actively build Christianity again.
There are a ton of young people coming back to the Catholic Church. This last Easter in our parish 6 young men in their 20s were received. In the congregation there were a TON of young couples. It was very heartening to see. In a couple of years the church will be full of crying babies and I can’t wait.
Few Americans (including so-called “journalists”) actually understand the Dobbs decision. It wasn’t an “antiabortion” decision at all; all it did was recognize that the Constitution does not give the federal government the power to decide issues concerning reproduction, including abortion.
What “pro-choice” advocates don’t realize is that the decision overturning Roe v Wade (which had found In the Constitution an unwritten but implied right to abortion) actually safeguards reproductive rights for American women. Because if a liberal 1973 Supreme Court could find an implied right to an abortion in the Constitution where abortion wasn’t mentioned, then a conservative 2033 Supreme Court (for example) could find an implied right to life for a fetus in the Constitution where it wasn’t mentioned. But with Dobbs finding the Constitution gives the federal government no power to make or dictate reproductive law one way or the other, women are effectively guaranteed that there will always be some states in America that will allow abortions.
My personal view is that absolutely every single human being is brought into our world of whoa with three things. The man’s sperm. The woman’s egg. And God Almighty, the Holy Spirit, giving the baby the electric spark of life immediately and the injection of a soul made in the exact image of God Almighty. Right at that moment.
If the baby is born alive, then the fun begins. They usually disagree with mom and dad precisely immediately. No one teaches a baby to sin. They are born with that. We love them completely in spite of themselves. After all, the true goal for all parents is to have grandchildren. We need these cute lizards to grow up into loving human beings in the future a few years later than now. And make us grandchildren.
Rather than “breathtakingly offensive,” Gaetz’s observation that, ““For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement” proved to be spot on analysis of the 2024 election, and this piece an insight into the bubble that liberals have placed themselves.
As a 52-year-old married mom of two daughters, educator, Gen-Xer, even Hispanic! what is it that is ‘breathtakingly offensive’ about Gatz’s Karen/Jamal/Julio comment? It’s TRUE. Y’all are so thin-skinned it’s breathtaking.
South Korea like Japan bemoans a lack of children. This is not an ideology issue. This is a men not helping issue.
Would you take a job with no pay, retirement and destroys any career advancement outside the home.
This job also includes taking care of ungrateful and abusive in-laws. Not to mention making you financially dependent on your spouse, which further distorts an already tilted power dynamic.
401 K for moms? Don’t hold your breath. If you live in Tokyo or Seoul you simply can’t afford to have kids.
Learn a little bit about the rest of the world and quit trying to make everything political.
"They" have left no stone unturned in trying to drive wedges between every conceivable (bad pun) group possible.
So the way to have more children in the country is for everyone to embrace abortion on demand. Makes perfect sense.
But seriously, I recently had a conversation with a fellow priest who chaplained a Rachel's Vineyard retreat for women who've had abortions and are in the process of healing from this, and he mentioned to me that the vast majority of the stories told there were of women stuck in rotten relationships. It is common sense that a mother who doesn't feel secure with her own husband will be more tempted to eliminate something -- or rather, someone -- that would increase her vulnerability. So I agree that this needs to be dealt with societally.
But let's think this through a little. How much of the problem is economics, how much politics, and how much culture? It's a lot about economics, which is why the neoliberal globalist order is not only destroying countries by destroying family life and good work, but is also destroying itself thereby. This is to say nothing of the obscene costs of healthcare in this country, including care for mothers. Politics? Very little, really, I suspect, except to subordinate the economic issues to common sense once more.
The biggest problem is cultural, as everywhere. American culture is absolutely poisonous to men, whether it be forcing them into school models that are more for fit for women's learning patterns or exposing them non-stop to pornography. And this culture is being exported all over the world. First Wave feminism, if I am correct, understood that well-cultivated, virtuous men were essential for women's well-being. This aim has completely been lost. Why? Because feminism chose contraception and abortion instead, with the goal now being "equality," and men were happy to sign on: no consequences! And anyways, there was that problem of "over population" that needed to be dealt with... certainly not the issue of the future!
So if you REALLY want to know why women don't want men around them anymore, look over at the Waves of feminism that have created a culture that can only shape men into monsters, and women into little better than female versions of the same. On the upside, "equality" is being achieved, isn't it? An equality of monstrosity? What else explains the transgender movement?
Anybody who wants to escape all this madness is welcome to become a Catholic Christian. The Church has been afflicted by a lot of the same craziness, and we are not guiltless in contributing to it, but at least we have the doctrine that can lead the way out, by God's grace. Because this really is a problem that only obedience to God will solve, dear liberals. Secular neutrality just can't do it: by displacing God, a void is created into which evil things can enter. It's your choice: choose Life.
It’s not a wonder the boys are taking their ball and going home. Thanks for writing an article about birth rates with obvious male, conservative bias - citing a poll about “marital rape” and Republicans?! Ugh!
I always find it odd that abortion opponents are often framed as being opposed to women's rights, or at the very least women's "healthcare" alternatives, and often as mean, misogynistic men, when every person I've ever known who was an anti-abortion "extremist" (defined as someone who would vote first and foremost on the issue of abortion and willing to protest against it), were women, including my sainted mother.
So conservative folks will seek each other out and have kids while the folks on the other side die off. It will be messy for a while but it does sound like this is a problem that will solve itself.
There are no apps or government programs that will solve the childlessness problem. Good families need to be visible and active.
I know there are a lot of people who still don’t want to hear this, but we need to go back to church. We need to actively build Christianity again.
There are a ton of young people coming back to the Catholic Church. This last Easter in our parish 6 young men in their 20s were received. In the congregation there were a TON of young couples. It was very heartening to see. In a couple of years the church will be full of crying babies and I can’t wait.
7 months later and this year in our parish we have 86 new people preparing to be received into the church. Most of them young men. God is good.
This is reality of the miserable philosophy of feminism taken to its logical conclusion.
This makes me think of a lyric from Joe Jackson: “If there’s war between the sexes then there’ll be no people left.”
Does anyone recall a faith movement of the 19th century, the shakers?
Holy crap this article is so disingenuous. How did this make it through the editors??
Few Americans (including so-called “journalists”) actually understand the Dobbs decision. It wasn’t an “antiabortion” decision at all; all it did was recognize that the Constitution does not give the federal government the power to decide issues concerning reproduction, including abortion.
What “pro-choice” advocates don’t realize is that the decision overturning Roe v Wade (which had found In the Constitution an unwritten but implied right to abortion) actually safeguards reproductive rights for American women. Because if a liberal 1973 Supreme Court could find an implied right to an abortion in the Constitution where abortion wasn’t mentioned, then a conservative 2033 Supreme Court (for example) could find an implied right to life for a fetus in the Constitution where it wasn’t mentioned. But with Dobbs finding the Constitution gives the federal government no power to make or dictate reproductive law one way or the other, women are effectively guaranteed that there will always be some states in America that will allow abortions.
Bingo, you get it
My personal view is that absolutely every single human being is brought into our world of whoa with three things. The man’s sperm. The woman’s egg. And God Almighty, the Holy Spirit, giving the baby the electric spark of life immediately and the injection of a soul made in the exact image of God Almighty. Right at that moment.
If the baby is born alive, then the fun begins. They usually disagree with mom and dad precisely immediately. No one teaches a baby to sin. They are born with that. We love them completely in spite of themselves. After all, the true goal for all parents is to have grandchildren. We need these cute lizards to grow up into loving human beings in the future a few years later than now. And make us grandchildren.
Abortion is anti-reproductive and clearly not a right. Words matter. Let’s not be Orwellian.
Korean females have at long last solved the abortion issue.