(February 19, 2025 at 11:54 am)arewethereyet Wrote: A large part of the issue was the birth control pill. The idea that women could perhaps control if they got pregnant or not scared the crap out of the patriarchy. Women were not supposed to have that sort of control over their reproductive parts. The issue of who is the father was to be controlled by men, not women and heaven forbid a woman want to have sex with someone for a reason other than procreation.
The churches that preached "Be fruitful and multiply" saw this as blasphemous.
The pill freed women to a certain extent and, of course, that was is seen as a bad thing.
This threatened not just patriarchy, women having control over when and how many children they have threatened the avarice of the capital class as well. Can't maintain endless growth with a shrinking population.
