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← Treating motherhood as a trade would be repugnant and socially harmful

17 connected korrents · 12 moments from 24 Mar 1789 to 20 Aug 2026.

Everything filed under demographics demographics Everything filed under empathy empathy Everything filed under gender equality gender equality Everything filed under family family Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Treating motherhood as a trade would be repugnant and socially harmful Treating motherhood as a trade would berepugnant and socially harmful CG Charlotte Perkins Gilman — holds since c. 1898 — tap for who they are Same subject: The slave trade hardens the people who deal in it; slave dealers are not born worse than other men — tap to centre the map on it The slave trade hardens the peoplewho deal in it; slave dealers arenot born worse than other men Last stated 238 years ago 24 Mar 1789 OE Olaudah Equiano — holds since 1789-03-24 — tap for who they are Same subject: If babies would be better off partly in others' care, mothers have a duty to provide it — tap to centre the map on it If babies would be better off partlyin others' care, mothers have a dutyto provide it CG Charlotte Perkins Gilman — holds since c. 1898 — tap for who they are Same subject: Framing childcare as unpaid labour, and a mother who stays home as a failure of feminist ambition, is a complete dead end. — tap to centre the map on it Framing childcare as unpaid labour,and a mother who stays home as afailure of feminist ambition, is acomplete dead end. Last stated a year ago 12 Jul 2025 DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-07-12 — tap for who they are Same subject: Counting every being that can suffer, and applying consistent moral weights, yields conclusions its own defenders find uncomfortable and cannot fully endorse. — tap to centre the map on it Counting every being that cansuffer, and applying consistentmoral weights, yields conclusionsits own defenders find uncomfortableand cannot fully endorse. Last stated 5 years ago 2 Feb 2022 HK Holden Karnofsky — holds since 2022-02-02 — tap for who they are Same subject: Prejudices should be cherished because individual reason is small — tap to centre the map on it Prejudices should be cherishedbecause individual reason is small EB Edmund Burke — holds since c. 1790 — tap for who they are Same subject: Many people refuse to act on falling birth rates because raising them is associated with people they consider enemies. — tap to centre the map on it Many people refuse to act on fallingbirth rates because raising them isassociated with people they considerenemies. Last stated 3 years ago 17 Jan 2024 RH Robin Hanson — holds since 2024-01-17 — tap for who they are Same subject: A tutelary democratic power may keep people in perpetual childhood instead of preparing them for adulthood — tap to centre the map on it A tutelary democratic power may keeppeople in perpetual childhoodinstead of preparing them foradulthood AT Alexis de Tocqueville — holds since c. 1840 — tap for who they are Same subject: Having children is not a niche or selfish lifestyle choice, and people without children shouldn't bear the costs of a structure that fails everyone. — tap to centre the map on it Having children is not a niche orselfish lifestyle choice, and peoplewithout children shouldn't bear thecosts of a structure that failseveryone. Last stated 7 months ago 6 Apr 2026 MA Mari Andrew — holds since 2026-04-06 — tap for who they are Same subject: Abolitionists who felt the slave's wrongs were blind to the equal legal wrongs of their own mothers, wives and sisters — tap to centre the map on it Abolitionists who felt the slave'swrongs were blind to the equal legalwrongs of their own mothers, wivesand sisters ES Elizabeth Cady Stanton — holds since c. 1898 — tap for who they are Same subject: Assuming stupidity rather than malice changes the response: empathy and clarity instead of defensiveness. — tap to centre the map on it Assuming stupidity rather thanmalice changes the response: empathyand clarity instead ofdefensiveness. Last stated 2 years ago 16 Nov 2024 SP Shane Parrish — holds since 2024-11-16 — tap for who they are Same subject: Being an excellent programmer is a burden rather than an advantage when learning to work with coding agents. — tap to centre the map on it Being an excellent programmer is aburden rather than an advantage whenlearning to work with coding agents. Last stated 9 months ago 12 Feb 2026 LF Lex Fridman — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are Same subject: A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero — tap to centre the map on it A finite world can support only afinite population, so populationgrowth must eventually reach zero Last stated 58 years ago 13 Dec 1968 GH Garrett Hardin — holds since 1968-12-13 — tap for who they are Same subject: A mass death does not by itself produce a boom afterwards: expecting a pandemic to renew an economy on its own misreads what followed the Black Death. — tap to centre the map on it A mass death does not by itselfproduce a boom afterwards: expectinga pandemic to renew an economy onits own misreads what followed theBlack Death. Last stated 6 years ago 4 Jun 2020 AP Ada Palmer — holds since 2020-06-04 — tap for who they are Same subject: A model fitted only to trends in its own outcome cannot forecast anything, because it contains no variable anyone could change. — tap to centre the map on it A model fitted only to trends in itsown outcome cannot forecastanything, because it contains novariable anyone could change. Last stated 2 months ago 20 Aug 2026 LS Lyman Stone — holds since 2026-08-20 — tap for who they are Same subject: 'Racism' and 'sexism' properly name systematic disadvantage, not merely prejudice against anyone. — tap to centre the map on it 'Racism' and 'sexism' properly namesystematic disadvantage, not merelyprejudice against anyone. Last stated 13 years ago 25 May 2013 AS Alom Shaha — holds since 2013-05-25 — tap for who they are Same subject: A white feminist does better to ask how they have benefited from being white than to resent the label — tap to centre the map on it A white feminist does better to askhow they have benefited from beingwhite than to resent the label Last stated 9 years ago 31 Dec 2017 EW Emma Watson — holds since 2017-12-31 — tap for who they are Same subject: Being a feminist is more than a single choice; it is an ongoing interrogation of self — tap to centre the map on it Being a feminist is more than asingle choice; it is an ongoinginterrogation of self Last stated 9 years ago 31 Dec 2017 EW Emma Watson — holds since 2017-12-31 — tap for who they are
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At the centre Treating motherhood as a trade would be repugnant and socially harmful Last stated c. 1898 Holds Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read this korrent →