Was this the start of a US Presidential campaign

[davflaws]

It isn't often that I find myself in sympathy with the Trump camp, but they are currently being excoriated because JD Vance was being interviewed by Brett Weisenstein (think Evergreen).

Weisenstein mentioned that the function of postmenopausal women was to be grandparents, and Vance said 'Yes'. All hell has (understandably) broken out, and this has (again understandably) been used as an example of the Trump camp's contempt for women.

It wasn't (though they have plenty).

Weisenstein is an evolutionary biologist, and in that context, his statement was correct. For almost all the course of human evolution, women have been the principle caregivers, and as they age, there comes a point where (in terms of their health and life expectancy) it is statistically better to put energy and resources into the nurture of grandchildren carrying a quarter of their genes rather than another child carrying half their genes. Natural selection produces menopause.

[ynot]

Shortages will do some americans good (particuarly those in red states) who waddle about everywhere.

Though given the US has free trade I doubt there will be a shortage of much at all.

If Kamala the communist wins hungry people will be the least of their worries.

[Panda-NZ-]

Trump loves Russia though

Communism doesn't lend itself well to educated women. See the chinese govt 3000 beareaucrats in the national people congress - nearly all men, same with vietnam and russia.

[Balance]

It isn't often that I find myself in sympathy with the Trump camp, but they are currently being excoriated because JD Vance was being interviewed by Brett Weisenstein (think Evergreen).

Weisenstein mentioned that the function of postmenopausal women was to be grandparents, and Vance said 'Yes'. All hell has (understandably) broken out, and this has (again understandably) been used as an example of the Trump camp's contempt for women.

It wasn't (though they have plenty).

Weisenstein is an evolutionary biologist, and in that context, his statement was correct. For almost all the course of human evolution, women have been the principle caregivers, and as they age, there comes a point where (in terms of their health and life expectancy) it is statistically better to put energy and resources into the nurture of grandchildren carrying a quarter of their genes rather than another child carrying half their genes. Natural selection produces menopause.

“The whole purpose of the postmenopausal female ….”

Not about the function of grandparents but the whole purpose - that is what Just Dumb Vance agreed with. By itself bad enough but in the context of him opining about childless cat ladies’, his comments show the mindset of a Stone Age moron.

[Panda-NZ-]

Weisenstein is an evolutionary biologist, and in that context, his statement was correct. For almost all the course of human evolution, women have been the principle caregivers, and as they age, there comes a point where (in terms of their health and life expectancy) it is statistically better to put energy and resources into the nurture of grandchildren carrying a quarter of their genes rather than another child carrying half their genes. Natural selection produces menopause.

Off topic here but childbirth itself was a brutal affair sometimes killing the mother along with the child. It still puts the mothers life at risk. Smallpox/plague/infection would then routinely sweep through and thin out the survivors. Other species are more resilient to both of these issues.

Without medical interventions we would be in the same position. Yet somehow we are still here (maybe because we bred like rabbits as late as the victorian era).