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Scare Tactics & Lies: Part II
How women are lured into having babies
In the second to last episode of HBO’s Love & Death, Candy Montgomery — on trial for killing a church friend but allowed to spend evenings at home — is having a quiet moment on the porch with her husband after a conversation about how she should behave in court the next day if she hopes to gain the jury’s sympathy.
She’s staring out into the silent darkness when she says, “There was a time when I thought that this was it, you know? Everything. Just to be able to stand underneath the stars. A home. A family.” Quietly, she goes on. “And people go looking for something. I don’t know what it is, they just … want. And they go looking. The end of some rainbow, maybe.” (SIE6)
She has all the stuff we’re told will make our lives complete: spouse, house, children. Still, she went looking for something. She still wanted.
Imagine the disappointment of so many women, and men, who learn only after it’s too late that marriage-and-kids isn’t the pot of fulfillment gold it’s made out to be. Entire lives dictated and irreparably damaged by propaganda.
Welcome back to Scare Tactics & Lies! Part II explores pronatalism’s appeal to three levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, beginning with the highest: self actualization. (Read Part I)
