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Re:Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women by planetsprite on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:34PM (#33266149)
People's role in society shouldn't be determined by their biology, but the manner in which their biology manifests in their life outcomes is determined by their biology.
Re:Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women by Supermancho on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:05PM (#33266511)
> People's role in society shouldn't be determined by their biology,

Why not (even if only partially)? Biology at the individual level has physical consequences, which necessarily affects the available roles and roles chosen. It makes no sense to expect that this relationship is different in aggregate.

Re:Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women by maxbond on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:12PM (#33266600)
Because your biology doesn't determine your destiny within society and the interests of liberty is not in tying you to it. For instance; a woman is entitled to choose not to have children, for any reason or for no reason at all. While it is a biological fact that only women can have children (or indeed can breastfeed, etc.), it does not follow, as a fact about how we conduct our society, that women are uniquely capable of raising children, or that it is their role within our society to birth & raise children. When we structure our society in an essentialising way, we cause create injustices for both men and women (to say nothing of trans and nonbinary people, who are erased by these essentialized framings, which for instance can lead to them being discriminated against in the adoption process), though women bare the vast majority of them.
Re:Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women by MisterSandman on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:41AM (#33273723)
You're seriously saying that in a forum dedicated to software engineering and technology?
Re:Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women by Supermancho on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:55PM (#33282840)
I'm not sure what you're implying or maybe what you are thinking I implied. Maybe you think I have veered off topic for the forum, despite the topical article under discussion?
Re:Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women by maxbond on Saturday October 22, 2022 @04:47PM (#33302081)
I think the suggestion is, humans aren't biologically disposed to fly either, but that's hasn't stopped them (that being the relationship to technology); so why should it dictate our role in society, where we collectively have even more freedom to structure things as we see fit?
Re:Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women by refurb on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:44PM (#33269607)
That's just an odd statement since there are intrinsic differences in biology between the sexes. You can't ignore them. Heavy manual labor is typically a job for men because males have more body strength.

And until you can find a way for biological males to have a baby, biology is going to determine the role of childbearing.