Chronicling the ongoing intersectional struggle to liberate women — inclusively defined as the legacy kind and the transgenders — from The Patriarchy™, one microaggression at a time.
Dystopian anti-natal propaganda under the guise of feminist self-empowerment
Childless celebrity Chelsea Handler was the de facto founding non-mother of a peculiar genre of social media cope in which feminists attempt to reassure their audience (but really themselves) that life without children is totally awesome and fulfilling.
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Of course, in the same way that #bodypositivity is meant to be inward-facing, to comfort psychologically afflicted fats who don’t want to invest the effort and energy into solving their obesity rather than affect any real social change, “look how happy I am without any kids” is very transparently just self-help DIY psychology when the SSRIs alone don’t do the trick. Happy people don’t need to spend time recording and editing videos to convince the public (in reality, themselves) that they’re actually super happy.
Anyway, this lady’s video in that vein has been making the social media rounds, in which she enumerates all the great hobbies she would allegedly be precluded from if she had children, such as sleeping in late, having disposable income, never missing brunch, and buying various trinkets.
When you watch stuff like this as a parent, you realise how truly empty and meaningless all of those things are. pic.twitter.com/MFOIf0754F
— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard) November 19, 2025
“Consider all the plastic Chinese consumer goods you can buy if you nuke your eggs and reject your fundamental biological imperatives!”
(Sponsored by IKEA™.)
Above all other emotions it evokes, this transparent bid at self-affirmation is profoundly depressing. Even though I’m fairly confident, based on what we can glean of her ideology, she would hate me for my immutable characteristics and definitely the things I’ve written, the feeling is not reciprocal. I wish she could find happiness, but she’s seeking where none is to be found.
Such is the misery that neoliberalism, modern feminism, and consumerism have wrought on society — all in the name of phantasmal self-empowerment.
Melinda Gates spending big to get women out of the home and back to work
This certainly isn’t an original theory on my part, but I’m increasingly certain that the “don’t have kids and be a girlboss” brand of feminism is astroturfed in order to achieve an array of ruling class objectives, including driving down reproduction rates.
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Exhibit A, Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of arguably the world’s most notorious depopulationist, Bill Gates, himself the son of a Planned Parenthood top lieutenant and a Climate Change™ evangelist who once insinuated, unsubtly, that the human population would have to be driven down to zero in order to achieve zero carbon emissions.
Via Fortune (emphasis added):Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates recently announced that her investing and advocacy organization Pivotal is partnering with nonprofit the Aspen Institute to launch a $60 million grant competition. Why? To discover bold, future-of-work ideas that remove barriers women face in the workplace…
Fortune: Why did you launch this challenge? What are you hoping to come out of it?
French Gates: This year, the number of women in the workforce has fallen by 500,000, while the number of men rose by nearly 400,000. That statistic tells us something is very broken. We’ve built systems that aren’t working, and women are bearing the brunt of it. I believe that if we’re bold enough to rethink how work works—if we make it more flexible, more fair, more inclusive—then we’re not just helping women. We’re unlocking opportunity for everyone…
It’s very concerning to see so many women leaving the workforce—but if you’ve been listening all along to what women say about their careers, it’s not surprising. When we survey women to see what’s holding them back at work, they tell us about the impossible tradeoffs they’re forced to make to balance careers with caregiving responsibilities*, especially given how expensive child care has become.
They tell us that even though #MeToo opened up important conversations, they still experience harassment at work. They tell us about facing outdated assumptions that they’re not cut out for leadership. And it’s simply a fact that if they try to launch businesses, they have a much harder time getting capital than men do.
What would I like to change? I want to see more women leading—making decisions, directing resources, and shaping policies at the highest levels of society. That requires us to make sure they’re not facing unique barriers along the way to positions of power.
*There you have it; women might decide that having children is more fulfilling than some soulless lifetime of climbing a corporate ladder, and we can’t have that.
Is tying anti-natalism to depopulation conspiratorial?
Maybe, but the conspiracy theorists have a pretty good track record over the last decade or so.
