The only reason we have to is because you Progressive Pervos thing of nothing but sexualizing children 24x7.

Tell that to someone who's get pushed to transition, and then finds themselves ruined for when they finally are adult enough to make an informed decision.

https://www.therecoveryvillage...

Various studies have been conducted around the world to determine the prevalence of gender dysphoria. A Dutch study indicated that 4.6% of 8064 study participants who were born male and 3.2% who were born female-identified themselves as ambivalent to their specific birth gender and were equally able to identify as male or female according to their internal perception of self. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, gender dysphoria prevalence accounts for 0.005–0.014% of the population for biological males and 0.002–0.003% for biological females. In both Japan and Poland, the prevalence of gender dysphoria is higher in biological females.

Actual clinical evidence.

So nice gaslight!

No, of course they aren't.
Which is the point.
You sterilize a bunch of little kids by convincing them they're a different sex.
And if they change their mind later on? Whoops! Our mistake. But they've already been sterilized.
Rendering them a dead end

You are correct that feminism plays a big part, but that's because women don't want to deal with abusive men, not the other way around. And not just physical abuse. Women don't appear to want to do 30% more household chores than men even when both are working full time. Women don't appreciate their 67% increase in income from 25-55 when married compared to married men's 159% increase. Marriage has been a raw deal for women since forever, although I guess the lack of women's rights throughout history did technically make marriage the better option.

I believe it's also because economic hardship has hit young men harder than young women, making less young men into ideal mates, but that's another discussion.

This is simply not true. You would be correct in saying the drop in birth rate from 1958 to 1978 had nothing to do with economic hardship. It was a result of the abnormally high birth rate after WW2 coupled with more women entering the workforce and other effects that economic prosperity has on lowering birth rates. But that drop had stabilized and even reversed a bit for 30 years until 2008, when fertility started to drop again.

The drop in US fertility since 2008 is not because of women entering the workforce, because women workforce participation rate has remained steady since the late 90s. Median age of first marriage for females has also only increased 1 year since the late 90's (it increased 5 years from the 60s to the 90s), so that isn't a big part of the change in fertility either.

The change since 2008 is economic. The number of new homes under 1400 square feet built annually has dropped from 400,000 in the 70s to about 50,000 in the 2010s. Student loans per graduating student has increased 33% since 2008. Increased debt and increased housing costs are the biggest issues dragging down birth rates today in the US. The other factors you mentioned had already run their course by the 80s.

That's not clear. One of the big problems with EVs is the ability to charge them. Lots of people don't have any way to do this at home, and the away-from-home chargers are often iffy either in access or availability. (Reports say they are often broken.)

FWIW, I won't be interested in a new car until full-automatic driving is included. So my observation of the market is a bit sketchy. But if I were to buy an EV I'd have no reliable place to charge it.

I wouldn't wager much that your last paragraph is correct. Apple is a large corporation, and different pieces of it don't necessarily talk to each other. This may have been a decision that the marketing department made without checking with legal.

Apple being in the music business breaks the court agreement that they made with the Beatles. Of course, that's probably expired by now, but they didn't wait for that to break the agreement.

I'm not at all sure it's beyond the limits of the technology, but I rather expect that properly training it would be more expensive than the call center.

Are automated agents worse than someone who only reads from a script?

Here in the west, we have disincentivized male/female relationships to the point where many males have largely given up. Some whack statistics out there.

Marriage If you marry, she can divorce you for any reason, and take your children, most of your stuff, and you get to pay child support, and often alimony, as well as half of your retirement. around 80 percent of divorces are initiated by women.

What person would go skydiving if there was a 50 percent chance their parachute would fail, or make an investment where there was a 50 percent chance of the investment failing, and not only failing, but continuing to fail for as long as they live?

The relationship gap

And for single men, it doesn't get better. There are some really odd stats there 63 percent of men under 30 classify themselves as single, and only 34 percent of women in the same age bracket do.

Wut? Weird as that sounds, there is the so called situationship thing. A study of dating apps show that 80 percent of women find only 20 percent of men to be attractive in any way.

So if only a small group of men are getting chosen for "dating", presumably the pretty boys, by multiple women, while the bog standard guys are ignored, we can see how we arrive at that strikingly different relationship gap between men and women.

The bad boy thing

What most women learned in High school has been extended until their mid 30's. Bad boys. The tingles. Choosing to engage in sex with them and thinking they can establish a relationship.

Background - I was in a band, drag raced cars and motorcycles, motocrossed, and played ice hockey. From personal experience, I can tell you that the bad boy thing was real. Cuz I wuz one. I was the guy the local busybody moms network told their daughters to stay away from. And I never thanked them for the references!

But the young ladies are supposed to grow out of that. Today, those tingles have become an addiction. Since most guys are not bad boys, they miss out.

The risks

One of the biggest forces that have created the so called manosphere is social media, where males have been able to share their stories of personal destruction. We are told to #believewomen, and #metoo, and in the frenzied days after "white" women took it over, many men lost their careers and families.

And yes, an example of what might happen is best exemplified by this little story from Australia 60 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The story is how a woman decided to accuse her fiancé of rape, destroyed his life, got him sent to Oz's version of SuperMax, destroyed his parent's lives financially and his mother divorced his father.

She then started accusing his father of things that made little sense, a new case was opened, and the new investigator figure out in a short time that the accusations were false, and if not for the idea that women cannot make false accusations, the man would not have been incarcerated, his parents would have still been married and financially solvent. So much for #believewomen

Back to today

Males have perhaps a built in tendency to do a risk/reward assessment. So in today's world, one where if married, she will divorce him, where approaching a woman can get him in trouble, and in any event, unless he's in the rarified class that she finds attractive, he stands no chance, it turns out that a decision to go his own way is not illogical.

Also the whole "trans" crap.

Start working on kids to convince them to mutilate their genitals and pump up on cross sex hormones, leaving them sterile.