James Innes-Smith

How having babies fell out of fashion

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With all of our institutions now firmly under the iron fist of progressivism it was only a matter of time before social justice mission creep slipped under the doormat and into the home. You can only promulgate the idea that we live under a tyrannical patriarchy for so long before young people take notice and begin to lose trust in the whole idea of intimate relationships with the opposite sex. Fourth wave feminism has shifted its focus from the work place to male/female relationships and a growing underclass of men is turning its back on women by joining poisonous underground groups such as INCELS and Men Going their Own Way (MGTOW).

Why would any young person choose to settle down and have kids against such a toxic backdrop? Well, increasingly they aren’t. In Bari Weiss’ recent article entitled First comes Love. Then Comes Sterilisation the writer reveals that ‘Americans are making fewer babies than we’ve made since we started keeping track in the 1930s.

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