"It’s hard not to see the dystopian mismanagement of fertility as a symptom of a larger disregard for women’s stories. Since fertility and reproduction are firmly situated in the realm of female narratives, the neglect for the practical concerns of say, managing a period during the apocalypse, may not be in the forefront of a creator’s mind. In a way, this reveals larger cultural attitudes about women’s fertility. Reproductive care is seen as an individual responsibility, rather than something that society at large has a vested interest in managing on a social or economic level. It’s not hard to draw a straight line from our current climate of punishing women for their reproductive choices to a future in which fertility is deemed unmentionable and people are left to create their own patchwork solutions. It’s exactly the same thing that happened before abortion became more accessible."
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