Posted on 08/30/2024 2:23:39 PM PDT by Morgana
Speakers predict dystopian future, call for dismantling capitalism
PHOENIX — Two professors discussed dismantling capitalism and electing a female president to restore reproductive rights, and warned of a dystopian future with “cannibalism” and “forced breeding camps,” at an event held Wednesday at Arizona State University.
“Jenny Irish’s HATCH: A Speculative Future for Reproductive Rights” was held both in person and via Zoom.
It featured Irish, a poet and English professor at ASU, as well as Professor Angela Lober, director of the Academy of Lactation Programs at ASU’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation.
Professor Lober opened the one-hour moderated discussion by stating she “got into this space because the United States hates women and everything the female body does.”
She said she is concerned about the state of maternal healthcare in the country, citing the existence of “maternity care deserts” and the lack of comprehensive care for mothers and children.
Economic interests often override health concerns, as evidenced by the lack of financial incentives in breastfeeding and maternal-child health, Lober said.
Irish, when asked about her concerns for the future of abortion laws, said she fears the possibility of “forced breeding camps” and “cannibalism” driven by a lack of resources.
“So much of our reality points toward those futures,” Irish said.
Lober added: “The balance between hope and despair is an everyday experience for me.”
“A couple years ago I never thought Roe v. Wade would be overturned. How could we possibly do that?” Lober said.
Asked what they would do to restore reproductive rights, Lober said “dismantle capitalism” and “elect a female president.”
Irish said any time Americans have an “external entity” asserting control over women’s bodies, they should all be “terrified.” She said the country should consider how “forcing women into motherhood” affects the broader community.
Irish also talked about transgenderism and said there is an “all-out assault on the trans community and people’s ability to self-identify.”
“It is disgusting, immoral, and wrong,” she said.
The scholars also took questions from the 15 or so students in the audience as well as over Zoom. When asked about the decline in birth rates globally, Lober said it doesn’t “bother” her, as “we are overpopulated.”
She also said she encourages her children not to have children of their own.
Karina Fitzgerald, the event coordinator, said the goal of the event was “to encourage students that are following creative pursuits or other types of worldbuilding to simply explore other elements that they haven’t thought of before in their writing, or other ways to challenge themselves in creative processes.”
“It’s an element of worldbuilding that people might not think of a lot when they are creating fictional stories,” Fitzgerald told The College Fix in an interview. “It’s a good exercise for students to get in the practice of.”
The event was co-hosted by ASU Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, which hosts events that aim to design “a future keyed to human flourishing,” according to its website.
The event description states the “prose poems in Jenny Irish’s newest collection, Hatch, trace the consciousness of an artificial womb that must confront the role she has played in the continuation of the dying of the human species.”
“This apocalyptic vision engages with the most pressing concerns of this contemporary sociopolitical moment: reproductive rights, climate crises, and mass extinction; gender and racial bias in healthcare and technology; disinformation, conspiracy theories, and pseudoscience; and the possibilities and dangers of artificial intelligence.”
apparently our colleges have replaced our insane asylums
or maybe the lunatic asylum turned this “professor” down as untreatable
“and warned of a dystopian future with “cannibalism” and “forced breeding camps,”
Dang it! Who let them know the plan too early! They weren’t supposed to know the handmaid’s tale was our entire plan.
Uncle Bosie was eaten by cannibals.
Interesting. They left out women getting creamed in sports by men with makeup and wigs.
I don’t hate women. I also don’t hate feminists.
But I do hate feminism - at least the version pushed the last couple of decades.
Exactly. It sounds like The Handmaiden’s Tale. And regarding “cannabalism”, its the Leftists that want us to eat bugs and plan to destroy agriculture as we know it. We already know the Marxists believe in economic cannabalism, but maybe they will go full retard and push actual cannabalism as well.
Women have been lactating since time immemorial. Now there is an Academy of Lactation?!
Professor Angela Lober, director of the Academy of Lactation Programs at ASU’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation. OK, Angela, what about Pete Buttigieg?
I would like to check back with Lober after capitalism is dismantled, but she will have starved to death. But probably not before she still blames all the devastation on the after effects... of capitalism.
No kidding, these women are really milking it for all it's worth.
that bites...
WTF?!
A future?! These women are preaching nihilism!
Biden's July Reproductive Freedom Rally at PA State Capitol; Three People Show Up
By Cristina Laila, July 11, 2024, gatewaypundit.com A whopping three people showed up at a Biden for President at the Pennsylvania State Capitol with legislators on Thursday.“Biden for President–Reproductive Freedom: Members of the PA State Legislature will join Amanda Zurawski and Kaitlyn Joshua — two women denied life-saving abortions due Donald Trump’s abortion ban–for a reproductive freedom rally,” the announcement said. Three people showed up. There were more news reporters than attendees at the Biden rally at Soldier’s Grove. Four reporters showed up to the Biden for President rally.
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IT wasn't *overturned*.
It was sent back to the states where it belongs.
None of this is going to end well.
You cannot reason with these people. You cannot discuss matters.
They expect to “win” all the arguments, every time, because they are emotional and “righteous”. So shut up.
Set in the year 2024. After World War Four.
They can reproduce all they want, they just have to accept responsibility for their actions.
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