In which we discuss antimothers & insecure fathers
One of Michael’s favorite feminist works is Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution.
He loves her honesty, consistency, and straightforwardness. She just says what everyone knows:
Feminism, at its core, is a rejection of motherhood.
It’s anti-motherhood.
Firestone claimed that “the heart of woman’s oppression is her childbearing and childrearing roles” (p. 72).
She went on to propose a sexless future where babies are grown in artificial wombs.
She was treated as the craziest of the crazy 2nd wavers. But guess what…
She wasn’t a crazy feminist per se. She was just an honest one. Moreover, she had the gift of “vision.”
She knew what it would take to realize a truly feminist future. Hence, you get papers like Anna Smajdor’s “The Moral Imperative for Ectogenesis” (2007).
What is ectogenesis?
Ectogenesis is artificial-womb technology. In an a Real Clear Science article, Bioethicist Sasha Issac writes that “the technology could have important social benefits for women.”
What…
