{"podcast":{"title":"Honey Badger Radio","slug":"honey-badger-radio-505921","podcast_index_feed_id":505921,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4148711/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/honey-badger-radio","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e9ebb7638698a08c6d4ae01dcd8e9c98.jpg","author":"Honey Badger Brigade","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Female and Minority Men's Rights activists are in your politics, touching your stuff.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T12:20:04.235064+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/honey-badger-radio-505921"},"episode":{"title":"Our civilization will end because men aren't stepping up enough! Those poor women!","slug":"our-civilization-will-end-because-men-aren-t-stepping-up-enough-those-poor-women","published_at":"2026-06-27T10:14:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/honey-badger-radio-505921/our-civilization-will-end-because-men-aren-t-stepping-up-enough-those-poor-women","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/honey-badger-radio-505921","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/our-civilization-will-end-because-men-aren-t-stepping-up-enough-those-poor-women--72715984","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72715984/our_civilization_will_end_because_men_aren_t_stepping_up_enough_those_poor_women.mp3","summary":"The cross-national correlation between gender equality and lower fertility is exceptionally strong (r ≈ 0.81). After the 1960s, a unique mating regime spread across parts of the world—with female emancipation, individual mate choice, and effective birth control—followed by a continuing rise in singlehood and declining fertility. Almost all women still want to reproduce, but many struggle to find a good-enough partner. This article argues from an evolutionary perspective that many men’s utility to “free women” has been so diminished that solving the fertility crisis by increasing pair-bonding rates seems unfeasible. A viable means for aiding the survival of low-fertility nations could be to provide women with the economic and social resources necessary for them to conclude that having children alone makes for a better life than remaining childless. Such policies would likely exacerbate male marginalization, but new technologies are on the horizon that could offer men reproductive equality.","meta_description":"The cross-national correlation between gender equality and lower fertility is exceptionally strong (r ≈ 0.81). After the 1960s, a unique mating regime spr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":8453,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/honey-badger-radio-505921/episodes/our-civilization-will-end-because-men-aren-t-stepping-up-enough-those-poor-women/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/honey-badger-radio-505921/our-civilization-will-end-because-men-aren-t-stepping-up-enough-those-poor-women.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}