"Today, 16 million millennials have had children, up from barely six million a decade ago," writes Cox. Someone with functioning brain cells might read that and think, "Wow! You mean people growing up have children?!?!?! How surprising!"
But I guess this might be considered some sort of improvement in that conservatives are now advocating MORE sex. However, given their proclivities, I'm going to guess that they mean strictly missionary position and doing the old in-and-out for just as long as it takes to inseminate. And nobody better be having fun because the Christian Police will be watching to make sure the right body part goes in the right body part in the right way for the right reasons.
And a new blood-and-soil reason for overturning Roe v. Wade. Or not so new:
*In 1936 the Reich Central Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortion was established to step up efforts to prevent acts that obstructed reproduction. In a 1937 speech linking homosexuality to a falling birthrate, German police chief Heinrich Himmler stated: “A people of good race which has too few children has a one-way ticket to the grave.”* (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-biological-state-nazi-racial-hygiene-1933-1939)
Really 10 years ago, the millenials ran from 13 years old to 28 years old. While the 13 year olds were probably thinking about having sex, assuming they were like me, procreating was not what they wanted to be doing with that sex.
Yeah, that "up from barely six million a decade ago" struck me, too. Not surprisingly, the Pew Research article they link to doesn't say this, because it's stupid. Pew describes millennial women as those born between 1981-1996, i.e., in 2016, millennial women were between the ages of 20 and 35. So not only would the number having children be "barely six million a decade ago" when they would be between the ages of 10 and 25, but it would be about 5.9 million less a decade before that (1996, ages 0 to 15), etc.
Pew used their stats to compare the age of first birth of millennial women to generation x women (it's rising). Which, if nothing else, is a sensible use of them. But it doesn't inspire confidence in soi-disant experts like Cox and Kotkin when they don't seem to grasp what the numbers they cite even mean.
Cox is one of those conservatives who believes that private transportation should reign supreme over public, since public transit gives THEM a way of CONTROLLING where and when you go. (Which it does, just not the way they think.)
Well, I went over and read that interview with Victor Davis Grandpa Simpson Hanson and now my brain hurts. Or as my favorite line of dialogue from the movie of "Get Shorty" goes: What a bunch of fucking bullshit.
Cox’s arguments are consistent: it’s easier to have sex in a private car than on public transportation.
I once owned a Dodge Omni. Despite numerous experiments with a very willing girlfriend, we found it physically impossible to have sex in that vehicle.
"Today, 16 million millennials have had children, up from barely six million a decade ago," writes Cox. Someone with functioning brain cells might read that and think, "Wow! You mean people growing up have children?!?!?! How surprising!"
But I guess this might be considered some sort of improvement in that conservatives are now advocating MORE sex. However, given their proclivities, I'm going to guess that they mean strictly missionary position and doing the old in-and-out for just as long as it takes to inseminate. And nobody better be having fun because the Christian Police will be watching to make sure the right body part goes in the right body part in the right way for the right reasons.
And a new blood-and-soil reason for overturning Roe v. Wade. Or not so new:
*In 1936 the Reich Central Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortion was established to step up efforts to prevent acts that obstructed reproduction. In a 1937 speech linking homosexuality to a falling birthrate, German police chief Heinrich Himmler stated: “A people of good race which has too few children has a one-way ticket to the grave.”* (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-biological-state-nazi-racial-hygiene-1933-1939)
Endless conservative blathering: "As soon as the Nazis took over they outlawed guns!!!! Freedumb!!!!!"
Never mentioned by conservatives as it damages their narrative: The Nazis also outlawed birth control and abortion: https://alphahistory.com/nazigermany/women-in-nazi-germany/
Really 10 years ago, the millenials ran from 13 years old to 28 years old. While the 13 year olds were probably thinking about having sex, assuming they were like me, procreating was not what they wanted to be doing with that sex.
Do tell us more.
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Yeah, that "up from barely six million a decade ago" struck me, too. Not surprisingly, the Pew Research article they link to doesn't say this, because it's stupid. Pew describes millennial women as those born between 1981-1996, i.e., in 2016, millennial women were between the ages of 20 and 35. So not only would the number having children be "barely six million a decade ago" when they would be between the ages of 10 and 25, but it would be about 5.9 million less a decade before that (1996, ages 0 to 15), etc.
Pew used their stats to compare the age of first birth of millennial women to generation x women (it's rising). Which, if nothing else, is a sensible use of them. But it doesn't inspire confidence in soi-disant experts like Cox and Kotkin when they don't seem to grasp what the numbers they cite even mean.
I believe Blood and Crabgrass was the original title for The Smithereens "Blood and Roses", but the late Pat DiNizio had second thoughts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqML7WbOun8
So Kotkin can't get laid?
Cox is one of those conservatives who believes that private transportation should reign supreme over public, since public transit gives THEM a way of CONTROLLING where and when you go. (Which it does, just not the way they think.)
Victor Davis Hanson. " I killed Homer(with by Big Fucking Dick)" was enough of him to last a lifetime.
Thank goodness for you Roy. Nothing intelligent to say after this - rain is drumming down on a flat roof.
Well, I went over and read that interview with Victor Davis Grandpa Simpson Hanson and now my brain hurts. Or as my favorite line of dialogue from the movie of "Get Shorty" goes: What a bunch of fucking bullshit.
Sorry, I forgot to give credit to TBogg for the Victor D.G.S.H. thing. I have a list....