Looking at my Twitter, I came across a photo from another profile, with an "opinion" article from ABC, titled "The decline in the birth rate" by author Fernando Alés Villota.
I read the entire article and even looked for the author's column, because I thought it was sarcasm, dark humor, or that they had misplaced an article from the early 19th century, but it wasn't, it was real and a media outlet had published such madness.
I will now debate the most controversial points (which are all of them!); He associates the decline in the birth rate with the fact that women and men can decide whether or not to be parents, but he does not associate it with the fact that having a child at this time is an economic increase that cannot be afforded.
He says he doesn't know if he's the only one living in ignorance (I don't know, but I'm sure he's two centuries behind).
"Women who only worry about doing sports, getting tattoos, and taking care of dogs" (well, hey! I much prefer women to be free to do whatever they want with their bodies freely and not in a world taken from Margaret Atwood's dystopia, The Handmaid's Tale).
He also refers to a distant time when women were subjugated, forced to obey their husbands and only limited to household chores... (Sure, honey. And while you're at it, bring the whiskey and cigar to the sofa while you scratch your balls with both hands).
He wrote about a "Sect" and its "icy winds", which God knows where it comes from (of course! Put God in the equation and surely those winds will be satanic) "has dried their heads" (what bothers this gentleman is that they are no longer subject to the obedience of men, that singleness is no longer a stigma but a choice, since we can be single but not alone).
And the strongest part of his outdated article from the fifth drink, those from six in the morning, from a party where you don't even know what you're drinking, "only worried about acquiring rights and titles" (Come on, don't mess with me! Wanting to build a future thanks to studies is the opposite of having an empty head, he went too far there)
I hope I never live in those black and white times.
Fortunately, in this country, equality and freedom take precedence over any old-fashioned person who wants to take us back in freedom and rights.
I have never written about other articles, but this one in particular seemed very stale and disgusting to me.
And as they would say in The Handmaid's Tale, "Blessed be the fruit and may the Lord allow it to ripen."