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You managed to get yourself in trouble.
Well, I tried to get my country of Norway to start taking the fertility crisis seriously. And as we've seen in many nations, people are unwilling to do that. And yeah, that motivated some attacks along that way.
How did all of this start?
Well, it started with an article that me and Lev Kinnear, a professor in evolutionary psychology, wrote earlier this year where we conceptualized and theorized the concept of involuntary single women in things. And then I did some interviews about that and people weren't happy.
They felt that talking about involuntary single women was misogynistic and they didn't want to connect that to declining fertility.
What's the line between talking about involuntarily single women and misogyny?
Well, one of the main drivers of low fertility is that people are having too hard of a time to find partners. So women either do not find a partner with whom they can have children or they find one too late so that the reproductive window is shortened. So this means that women aren't having the children they would like to have.
In Norway, women would like to have 2.4 children and they're having 1.4. So a dysfunctional dating market is an important contributor to this fertility crisis.
Okay. And how's that misogynistic?
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