Translated material
Down with childfree!
The state not only gets into bed, but also gets into the human womb
In the village of Okha on Sakhalin, schoolchildren were gathered in the assembly hall, and the lecturer gave them a lecture about the dangers of abortion. To prevent the words from hanging in the air and the thought to become more firmly entrenched in the teenagers’ heads, they were shown the whole process as it is on the big screen. The video was distributed across channels and accounts, but invariably blurred. With a warning that this is tough footage. But the children in the Sakhalin school were not blinded to anything and were shown the process without embellishment. Then, however, they started checking: who authorized it and what kind of lecturer he was, but the lecture had already taken place, and the schoolchildren saw everything.
After this, I had one question: what was shown to the children and what we also watched in a washed-out form - is this propaganda of fertility or childfree? Looking at all this, will future dads, and especially mothers, actually want to give birth to someone? Or will the horror of what they see make them try to somehow avoid childbearing and not help the country much in solving the demographic problem?
In general, abortion is always a disaster. Because of a good life and in a normal situation, a woman will not do it. And if for some reason you are not ready to have a child right now, there are contraceptives. But the Duma has already begun discussing a ban on condom advertising - precisely as part of the fight against childfree people. Of course, it would be much more beneficial for society to spread syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases. It will be much better if men and women go to doctors, who will have to treat a lot of other problems associated with unprotected sex - not only gonorrhea is spread in this way, there are also much more banal medical stories.
In a country where hundreds of thousands of people are HIV carriers, it's time to ban talking about condoms!
Well, teenage pregnancies are, of course, exactly what we are waiting for. However... Senator Kutepov is definitely waiting! He proposed to give female applicants upon admission to a university, along with the well-known bonuses for various Olympiads, 10 points for the birth of a child within a year before admission. That is, to encourage schoolgirls to have children! What class should we start in? At 11 or even earlier, at 10? It is clear that all this is crazy nonsense, but life has already taught us a simple truth: there is no such nonsense in our country that after some time could not become law.
The management, fixated on the topic of childbirth, took childfree seriously. And there is no doubt that this “movement” will be banned and its adherents will be fined. It doesn’t matter that the movement as a structure does not exist. This did not stop the international LGBT* movement from being banned and the fact that it turns out to have been functioning since 1984.
But with childfree the situation may be even more serious. If the LGBT ban punishes action, then the childfree ban actually punishes inaction. Of course, you can pull any kind of owl on the procedural globe in our court, but when punishing same-sex love, you must either practice it somehow, or express solidarity with such people - in general, if you don’t say anything at all about LGBT people and don’t “engage in this,” then they won’t touch you. And if you don’t have children, isn’t this a reason to ask whether you are, perhaps, a supporter of childfree?
You are married, but you don’t have children - explain why! Trying but not succeeding? How can you prove your efforts? Is your health preventing you from having a baby? Bring a certificate! And all of your “we are not ready yet”, “there are no material and living conditions”, “first you need to get an education / build a career” - this is also not a reason to live childless.
Under Soviet rule there was a tax on childlessness. Absolutely humiliating. But under that government, people were imprisoned for sodomy, and for anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation, and the role of the only party as “our helmsman” was enshrined in the Constitution - there was a lot of interesting things there. Can we do it again? Moreover, there is no shortage of new taxes, but the state obviously has a shortage of money.
And, of course, punishment for childfree propaganda provides unlimited scope for improvisation. Because the very concept of propaganda is vague, and the wording is deliberately vague, so that anyone could be made to fit the article. In the end,
Any activist, if you really can’t find anything on him, can at least be fined for being childfree.
But the main thing, of course, is not this. The state literally invades the personal territory of citizens. It crawls into their bed and right into their womb! It decides which sex is right and which is wrong. It gives instructions on who to give birth and how many. It prohibits you from disposing of your body as you wish.
But our people are built simply. When it comes to some abstract concepts, about freedoms or “universal human values,” he treats all this disdainfully, as things that are not very clear and necessary, which do not really concern him. But as soon as something concerns him directly, literally his “selfish interest,” then our man begins to think completely differently.
Therefore, much more than any restrictions on freedoms, he is concerned about the prices of food and the growth of communal services. And the issue of sex and having children is the most understandable and directly relevant. And it is very difficult to force a person to give birth if he does not want to do it. And if he understands that there are plenty of calls to reproduce, but there is very little real support for families with children. What is people's perspective? Reproduction in poverty? Giving birth already at school? And then Medinsky proposed cutting down school education so as not to spend so much time on studying, but to quickly decide on a profession. The guys go to the machine, the girls go to the maternity hospital. And so on in a circle. There's definitely no time for childfree here.