# \#feminism

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## [A Modest (if Politically Incorrect) Proposal](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-modest-if-politically-incorrect-proposal/4908)

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**Author:** [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\
**Replies:** 37\
**Last updated:** [7 January 2026 01:31 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-modest-if-politically-incorrect-proposal/4908 "2026-01-07T01:31:26Z")

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The Usual Suspects love to talk about “sustainability” – but they ignore the most basic aspect of actual societal sustainability: unless each woman has 2.1 children, any society will blow away. What brought this to min…

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## [How a civilization dies](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/how-a-civilization-dies/6135)

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**Author:** [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\
**Replies:** 29\
**Last updated:** [6 November 2025 15:34 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/how-a-civilization-dies/6135 "2025-11-06T15:34:04Z")

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Fascinating article … by a woman, no less … arguing that wokeness is a symptom of feminization, and feminization will probably destroy our society (although she does not put it that bluntly, being a woman). She points o…

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## [Feminism Rots a Woman’s Mind](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/feminism-rots-a-woman-s-mind/6125)

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**Author:** [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [12 October 2025 14:23 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/feminism-rots-a-woman-s-mind/6125 "2025-10-12T14:23:31Z")

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I have long been intrigued by the history of mathematics. Why did it take so long to invent the concept of zero? Just what was Hilbert trying to do, anyway? Thus, when I came across a book entitled “The Secret Lives o…

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## [Feminism -- 1800s Style](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/feminism-1800s-style/5676)

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**Author:** [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [15 November 2024 06:46 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/feminism-1800s-style/5676 "2024-11-15T06:46:53Z")

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I have been reading a fascinating book published in England in 1949 – “A Short History of Science & Scientific Thought”, by F. Sherwood Taylor. The author illustrates some of his observations with extracts from publicat…

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## [The Conscription Conundrum for Feminism](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-conscription-conundrum-for-feminism/4470)

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**Author:** [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [21 March 2024 04:43 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-conscription-conundrum-for-feminism/4470 "2024-03-21T04:43:11Z")

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Now that the bellicose Mr. Macron is talking about sending the French army to the killing fields of the Ukraine, can discussion of conscription be far behind? Especially because most sadly-shrunken European armies these…

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## [Parthenogenic Reproduction in Mammals by Genetic Modification](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/parthenogenic-reproduction-in-mammals-by-genetic-modification/3161)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [13 May 2023 00:09 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/parthenogenic-reproduction-in-mammals-by-genetic-modification/3161 "2023-05-13T00:09:00Z")

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This female mouse, shown at an age of 4.5 months with her offspring, has no father. The mouse grew from a single unfertilised egg extracted from a female mouse (can one say “mother” in this age and circumstance?), the…