The NFL Doesn't Seem to Want a Future – Demographic Winter Report #6

 

 

Issue #6   May 23, 2042 – Reporting on how rapidly falling fertility affects nations and humanity

 

1.   Sperm counts may be declining globally, review finds, adding to debate over male fertility: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/health/sperm-counts-decline-debate/index.html

 

Over the past 50 years, human sperm counts appear to have fallen by more than 50% around the globe, according to an updated review of medical literature.

 

 

2.   Homemaker influencer defends Harrison Butker after speech backlash: Traditional women aren’t ‘oppressed’ https://www.foxnews.com/media/homemaker-influencer-defends-harrison-butker-speech-backlash-traditional-women-arent-oppressed

 

A popular Arizona online influencer believes stay-at-home mothers are often derided in today’s social-media-fixated, me-first culture. So when NFL kicker Harrison Butker’s viral commencement address praising homemaking as one of the most important vocations for women caused an uproar, she wasn’t surprised.

 

“I think a lot of people have just been trained, and I was kind of like this too, even growing up, hearing about how important it is for women to have degrees and to have jobs and go compete with men,” 28-year-old Ivy Van Dusen and “trad wife” told Fox News Digital. “So I think people subconsciously when they hear the word homemaker, or when they hear someone, especially a man, talk about women being mothers, flags go up, and they automatically are upset by it.”

 

Full Text: Harrison Butker of Kansas City Chiefs Graduation Speech https://www.ncregister.com/news/harrison-butker-speech-at-benedictine

 

Excerpt from his remarks; ‘Some of you (ladies graduating) may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.

 

3.   How should countries deal with falling birth rates?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c72p2vgd21no

 

 

Dubious wisdom from the BBC. Countries should deal with well-below replacement fertility with more immigration and making people work longer. Encouraging women to have larger families is mentioned and immediately dismissed.

 

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