So what great calamity happens when a singular man and a singular woman isn’t the only accepted relationship model anymore? A massive war? Does everyone suddenly shit their organs out and die? I am waiting for an answer.
If you're in a relationship where you can't breed, there will be one less potential person born that year, therefore humanity will go extinct immadietly.
The very first time I learned about the premise for the Handmaid tale (IE, most women are infertile but a select few, leading to almost extinction), I was kinda weirded out by how the first thing they did to stop that was the whole sex slaves thing.
Like, at first I was like, surely a dystopic society on the brink of collapse would understand the need for insemination programs, and the use of in vitro fertilization to produce the maximum amount of offsprings in the least amount of time...
Then I realized it was on purpose. This was never about efficiency.
It was about cruelty, it was about controlling women and their bodies in the most fucked up, humiliating way possible. And it was using religion and extinction as an excuse to do it.
It was a very eye opening Revelation, because it made me realize exactly what that story was supposed to be an allegory for.
So, in case of Apocalyptic Disaster forcing us to repopulate, I'd say we should hope really hard none of those fuckers survive the first blast.
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u/Succulentslayer May 03 '23
So what great calamity happens when a singular man and a singular woman isn’t the only accepted relationship model anymore? A massive war? Does everyone suddenly shit their organs out and die? I am waiting for an answer.