[Nicole20046]

It’s not dead, exactly, but dying, because the mainstream feminist movement focuses on the wrong problem. The real problem facing women today isn’t that they don’t have enough ‘rights,’ it’s that they don’t have enough ‘worth,’ and no amount of government-issued rights is going to fix that. In ancient times, women had intrinsic worth as the bearers of children – without an incredibly high birth rate, the high death rate threatened to wipe out the population. In the last 1,000 years or so – and explosively in the last couple of generations – the death rate fell and so did the minimum required birth rate. Now, women are not as necessary, as women, for the survival of society and the species. Most industrialized nations need just more than two children per couple to sustain the population. Women’s unique biological gifts are, unfortunately, needed on a much smaller scale than in the past, and we have no choice but to seek our worth in other areas. The old patriarchal system may seem wrong to us, but it was right and required for survival centuries ago. Our modern challenge is to adapt society to technological reality. Feminism is at the point where it has done all it reasonably can on the policy level, and to keep yelling at Congress is unproductive. The only legitimate options are to either compete with men – on their terms without special benefits, and prove our worth – or else find what women CAN contribute to society that defines us as separate.

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Name : Nicole20046, Gender : F, Race : mixed race, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 22, City : New York, State : NY, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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