Idiocracy. Dumb down the society. "We are too SMART to breed!"
Give that couple a Darwin Award for removing themselves from the gene pool.
Posted on 11/19/2010 7:04:51 AM PST by markomalley
On Wednesday's Joy Behar Show on HLN, the host asked about parents who are "overpopulating" the world, and guest Helen Fisher, a Rutgers University professor, compared having a large family to littering, "as if we've got too many people on this planet to begin with." Fisher also bizarrely stated that "for billions of years, we [humans] ended up having one or two children per woman."
Host Joy Behar devoted the last two segments of her 9 pm Eastern hour program to how women are trending away from having children. Besides Fisher, she brought on author Rachel Shukert and Laura Scott, who manages the "Childless By Choice Project" blog. Near the middle of the second segment, the host blurred the line between typical large families, most of whom have children by natural means, and celebrities such as the "Octo-Mom" and Kate Gosselin and her family. This is where Fisher made her extreme leftist remark:
BEHAR: What about these people who are overpopulating- the Gosselins, the octo-moms- these people who have been vitro with hundreds of things in there- you know what I mean? What's up with that?
[Video embedded at the link]
SHUKERT: You know, I think it's so interesting how the way that- like their kids have sort of- like, taken the role of kids in the olden days, when they all had to work as farmhands-
BEHAR: Yeah. Now, they're on reality shows-
SHUKERT: Now, they're on reality shows, instead of in the field.
BEHAR: Yeah, exactly. I mean, what do you make of that?
FISHER: Well, I think it's as if- I mean, now, people regard that as littering, and- you know, as if we've got too many people on this planet to begin with.
SHUKERT: That's true.
FISHER: So, it's interesting that-
SHUKERT: I was thinking how much greener it is to not have kids. That he feels he can have steaks and things because he doesn't have kids. It's like I can drive a Hummer. I don't have a kid.
FISHER: Well, you know, for billions of years, we ended up having one or two children per woman, and we're moving back to that now, one or two children per woman.
One wonders what the professor meant by her "billions of years" remark, as the human species obviously hasn't been around that long.
Earlier, at the beginning of the second segment, Behar asked the Rutgers professor, "Why do you suppose, Helen, people say that there's something odd about not having kid?"
Fisher first touted the obvious genetic disadvantage not having children carries, but then gushed over the innovation of making that very decision: "There is something odd about it- I mean, from a Darwin evolutionary perspective, you're choosing to not pass on your DNA on into tomorrow, and in terms of- you know, genetic survival, you have lost....On the other hand, times have changed so dramatically, and we're finally at a time in human evolution when women can make that choice, and I think that's what's a thrill."
[H/t: Creative Minority Report blog]
I think Joy Behar and her guests are trash, so that makes us even.
Joy, then do the world a favor and off yourself.
Would Joy Behar’s mouth make a sound in the forest if no one gave a sh*t? Just wondering.
We give her to much time. Worthless and useless.
Did she call out low income minorities for burdening the welfare system and overpopulating?
Or did she just spew anti-breeder hate speech at the stable families with a nice house and a lot of kids?
From what I understand she does not have any children therefore she has no basis to speak from. SHe would be a more kinder gentler sole if she was blessed with children.
When it comes to matting Behar is very safe!
Idiocracy. Dumb down the society. "We are too SMART to breed!"
Give that couple a Darwin Award for removing themselves from the gene pool.
Progressives hate people. It’s part of their mental disorder.
Is there an address where we can send thank you notes to Joy Behar and her ilk for not perpetuating their genes?
They are truly doing the world a kindness.
6 kids and 4 grandkids— Just doing the littering that the average American just won’t do....
Western women may be trending away from having babies, but that certainly is not the case in third world countries.
“for billions of years, we [humans] ended up having one or two children per woman.”
I think she means most children died of disease, famine, violence or childbirth. She’s longing for the good old days, I guess. Billions of years? Got me there.
So much hatred and so little time;(
ABCDisney gives her too much time.
Boycott that corporation. It poisons the culture and offers no benefit anymore.
If I recall correctly, about 250 million years ago homo erectus dies out. Then comes homo sapiens but I'm recalling that the oldest fossil evidence of hs is something like 2MM yrs ago
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