Spain's Aging Crisis: The Controversial Blame on Feminism

Spain is aging without generational renewal: feminism under suspicion

Why is Spain failing to replace its population? The question has been on the table for years, admitting segarro answers—mortgages, wages, nurseries—and others that sell much more. A thesis that circulates insistently claims that the decline in birth rates is not a side effect of the labor market, but a deliberate goal: feminism would act as a transmission belt for a plan to sterilize Spanish women. The cocktail mixes evident verifications with claims that do not withstand serious examination, and precisely for that reason it is so sticky.

The thesis: feminism as a sterilization tool

The starting diagnosis asserts that what has replaced Christian civilization is a set of irrational ideas leading to extermination, placing feminism as a split of more radical Marxism. The comparison used is explicit: documentaries on the Soviet Union or Mao's China of the sixties would show, according to this reading, the same postulates—destruction of the family, dependence on the State, disappearance of traditions and folklore. The goal, it is argued, is to turn people into a flock that delegates decisions and stops thinking.

There is no unanimity even within this current. Another line holds that feminism is not a split of Marxism but of liberalism, and that its origin lies in the 19th century and in Protestant countries. The discrepancy is no small matter: if the enemy is Marxism, the criticism is organized against the State; if it is liberalism, the reproach points to the market.

How many children did the generation of our grandmothers have?

The demographic argument relies on family memory. It recalls a grandmother with ten children, in a house where cats slept in the hayloft, hunted mice, and had no names. From this, the conclusion is drawn that those women were the last normal ones and that much of today's thirty-somethings will have no descendants.

The same line holds that, after age 23, the brain stops growing and the person enters autopilot dominated by neophobia, so that those who have not consolidated partnership and motherhood before that age will not do so. It is presented as physiology, but it is not accompanied by any reference. It is the type of data that sounds like science and functions as a watchword.

Japanization: the only concept with technical backing

Here the narrative steps onto firm ground. Japanization describes a scenario of very low growth, nonexistent inflation or deflation, high public debt, an aging population, minimal fertility, and zero or negative interest rates. The analysis cited to define it is dated June 28, 2019, before the pandemic, and this detail is highlighted as proof that the problem came from before. It is the only part of the argument that does not require an act of faith: the indicators are there.

From telephone operators to artificial intelligence

From there, the technological layer is added. A single invention eliminated millions of telephone operators worldwide, and nothing prevents robotics and artificial intelligence from doing the same with supermarket cashiers and much of known jobs. The conclusion drawn is that the current labor model was doomed to change anyway, with or without a pandemic.

The Japanese case is described even more crudely: of 130 million inhabitants, 120 million would be slaves and ten million would be engaged in the pretense. The figure does not come from any statistical agency, but circulates as if it were data.

The cultural machinery that manufactures the mirror

The narrative does not stop at the economy. It asserts that daily training arrives through what is called culture: movies, series, songs, and humor programs that build an image of society that does not correspond to reality, but which the public tries to imitate. This mechanism is compared to circus animal routines—the same function at the same time, with positive reinforcement—and to the most rigid labor norms, such as clocking in by the minute. Some may smile, although suspicion about entertainment as pedagogy is not new.

Demographic substitution and the unproven plan

The final section connects birth rates with immigration. It is claimed that, in the absence of children, the chosen solution is to import reproductive population through a pull effect attributed even a guaranteed salary, and the Kalergi Plan is mentioned as a supposed substitution design. It is necessary to be clear: there is no documentation supporting this plan, and no Spanish immigration policy responds to a sterilization program.

Something similar happens in the health field. It is asserted that the bicho barely hit countries with a Muslim majority and cites Nigeria, with 200 million inhabitants, as proof. This is a reading not supported by verified excess mortality, only by the count at the moment.

The closing of the reasoning is impeccable in its internal logic: if birth rates plummet, traditions disappear, and renewal comes from outside, then someone designed it. The alternative explanation—that a generation with long mortgages, contained salaries, and expensive nurseries has fewer children—is much less cinematic. And that is why there is no documentary.

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