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Comment author: Azathoth123 18 November 2014 09:00:00AM *  6 points [-]

Does feminism exist because of birth control?

Given that birth control existed in Ancient Egypt, I find this unlikely.

You'd probably be on firmer ground asking whether feminism exists because of washing machines. In any case given the effect of feminism on fertility (especially fertility of those with high IQ) it's likely to go away one way or another.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 18 November 2014 03:05:38PM 4 points [-]

Actually, the situation of women in Ancient Egypt was quite progressive by Bronze Age standards.

Also, are you saying feminists are headed toward breeding themselves out of existence? Human history is well past the age where ideas were only transmitted within the same family. Feminism isn't genetic; it's memetic.

Comment author: Azathoth123 19 November 2014 01:24:06AM *  1 point [-]

Actually, the situation of women in Ancient Egypt was quite progressive by Bronze Age standards.

And was birth control forgotten after Egypt declined?

Also, are you saying feminists are headed toward breeding themselves out of existence? Human history is well past the age where ideas were only transmitted within the same family. Feminism isn't genetic; it's memetic.

So what your saying is that feminism is a memetic quasi-sterelization virus. Populations eventually evolve resistance to those kinds of viruses.

Comment author: bogus 19 November 2014 01:42:15AM *  5 points [-]

Women were socially important in Egypt as far as the Ptolemaic dynasty, at least. It didn't fully adopt Byzantine culture until the 5th and 6th centuries CE, and this change was largely fostered by the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. So no, there was no "decline" due to their social system, only a largely unrelated cultural/memetic replacement. (It did fall to the Persians and then to the Arabs shortly thereafter, but by that time the ancient Pharaonic customs had been forgotten.)

Comment author: polymathwannabe 19 November 2014 12:56:25PM -1 points [-]

Again, what on Earth does feminism have to do with sterilization? What definition of feminism are you using?

Comment author: jaime2000 19 November 2014 05:54:45PM 6 points [-]

The reactosphere theorizes that feminism is behind the drop in fertility, which has now collapsed to sub-replacement rates.

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