That Shinzo Abe birth rate meme did so much damage to the Western mind
And it also cemented the perception of Shinzo Abe as the ‘haha please have sex guy’ instead of the hard right wing manchuria apologist he was.
Odd because his constant pressure about birth rates ties directly to his nationalism. He was very much similar to conservative pro-natalists that care about producing a world where a certain kind of child is being born specifically into heterosexual families.
Like it was never a cutesy “please have sex” thing, it was ALWAYS “I view my people as inherently superior and thus am threatened by the idea that we have low birth rates and will be "bred out” by people I view as inferior"
Actually let me clarify that even if it was just a “please have sex” thing that it’s extremely fucking weird to try to control the sex lives of your citizenry








