Women are on the front lines in the manosphere’s “war for civilization”
Ladies, ladies, ladies, this is an emergency. You’re not doing your part. Our very existence as a species is threatened, and it’s all your fault.
Elon Musk calls it “a war for civilization.” He says, “Humanity is dying.”
JD Vance wants “more babies in America” and wants to give parents more votes than people who don’t — or can’t — have children.
The Trump administration is considering creating a “National Medal of Motherhood” for moms who have six or more kids. (This is hardly original, by the way. It’s a direct ripoff of the “Cross of Honour of the German Mother,” created by Hitler and awarded to mothers of four or more children — as long as they weren’t Jewish.) Trump also says he wants to be the “fertilization president” and is entertaining a proposal to teach women about menstruation.
Let’s all pause here and take a moment to just picture that.
Colorado is definitely seen as part of the problem.
The birth rate here is 52.5 per 1,000 population, eighth-lowest in the nation. Teen birth rates, long a reliable source of children here, have declined especially dramatically from 76.7 births per 1,000 teen girls in 2009 to 11.1 today. As a result, school districts are shuttering elementary schools; hospitals are closing maternity wards.
The situation is dire and, in the view of the strutting Trump-Vance-Musk cult, there’s only one solution: get more women pregnant.
Ever since those damnable scientists with their degrees from elite institutions discovered safe and effective contraception, and since Democrats in this country and DEI radicals in countries all over the world outlawed discrimination against women in education, the workplace, financial services and protection from abusive partners, birth rates have been in decline.
The fertility rate, a rough number representing how many babies an average woman will have, must be 2.1 or higher just to maintain a stable population. The U.S. fertility rate is 1.6. South Korea’s — the lowest in the world — is 0.7.
This is not a joke.
It turns out if women have agency, they look at motherhood as a choice, not an inevitability. They plan pregnancies. They avoid unwanted ones. They even follow their dreams.
The manosphere hates that. And its leaders are hellbent on reversing these dangerous trends.
At a recent conference of NatalCon 2025, a menagerie of about 200 racists, misogynists and eugenicists gathered in Texas to rally support for increasing birth rates — but not for just any women.
They want more babies who are white, have high IQs, aren’t gay or trans, and won’t ever need child care, maternity leaves, paternity leaves, low-income housing or, heaven forbid, equality.
Musk, the unquestioned sperminator and poster boy for the pronatalist movement, has a preference for males among his 14 offspring, most of whom reportedly were conceived through IVF with a variety of women, some acting as surrogates, others who just happened to work for him. The IVF method conveniently allows him to select for gender.
When one of his kids transitioned and changed her name from Xavier to Vivian, he disowned her.
History offers an array of possible roadmaps for the Trump administration in its quest to address the shortage of women interested in getting pregnant.
One of the most notorious examples was Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania and, in light of Trump’s 100-day reign of terror and the creepy bros he hangs with, the Communist dictator might already be his idea of a perfect role model.
Ceaușescu came to power in the 1960s and decided early on that the country’s birthrate was dangerously low and government intervention was needed to boost the population for the purpose of economic development and to increase the ranks of workers for the labor market.
He started tentatively.
Taxes were increased for childless women regardless of whether they had cats, and when that seemed a little too woke, he got serious.
Contraception and abortion were outlawed in almost all cases. Women were required to be monitored by state gynecologists and secret police oversaw hospital procedures to make sure there were no sterilizations or surreptitious abortions provided.
Sure, it was the ’60s, so the methods were primitive. If only they’d had iPhones in those days, they could have developed a digital database of women’s periods, ovulation dates and sexual activity. But I digress.
A brief baby boom ensued, followed by what might be called reality, or in Ceaușescu’s view, unmitigated disaster.
Women from wealthy families bribed doctors to access contraception and abortion services. Poor women found illegal abortion providers who left many of them sick, sterile or dead. Many of the children were malnourished or disabled, and large numbers were abandoned to state orphanages by parents who had neither the means nor the ability to care for them.
Ultimately, Ceaușescu was executed.
But hold your applause. Even that hasn’t kept other countries from trying to interfere in women’s lives.
In Italy, families get financial subsidies, paid paternity leaves and subsidized child care to have kids. In South Korea and China, abortion bans are being used to force women to take unwanted pregnancies to term. Iran has imposed bans on abortion, sterilization and contraception in an effort to manufacture a baby boom.
Birth rates in all cases remain stubbornly low.
So, ladies, it’s all up to you. It comes down to patriotism. How much do you love this country?
Uncle Sam — as well as Elon, JD and The Donald — want you to get pregnant early and often. Never mind what’s good for you as a woman. It’s your duty. Don’t be so stubborn.
As one prominent Republican running for office in 2022 so transparently suggested, don’t fight the inevitable, girls. “Lie back and enjoy it.”
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