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…