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Indeed, men are absolutely indispensable right now, invisible as it is to most feminists, who seem blind to the infrastructure that makes their own work lives possible. It is overwhelmingly men who do the dirty, dangerous work of building roads, pouring concrete, laying bricks, tarring roofs, hanging electric wires, excavating natural gas and sewage lines, cutting and clearing trees, and bulldozing the landscape for housing developments. It is men who heft and weld the giant steel beams that frame our office buildings, and it is men who do the hair-raising work of insetting and sealing the finely tempered plate-glass windows of skyscrapers 50 stories tall.
Indeed, men are absolutely indispensable right now, invisible as it is to most feminists, who seem blind to the infrastructure that makes their own work lives possible. It is overwhelmingly men who do the dirty, dangerous work of building roads, pouring concrete, laying bricks, tarring roofs, hanging electric wires, excavating natural gas and sewage lines, cutting and clearing trees, and bulldozing the landscape for housing developments. It is men who heft and weld the giant steel beams that frame our office buildings, and it is men who do the hair-raising work of insetting and sealing the finely tempered plate-glass windows of skyscrapers 50 stories tall.
That nearly happened in Paraguay in 1870. One account of the war states that:
"The normal estimate is that of a Paraguayan population of somewhere between 450,000 and 900,000, only 220,000 survived the war, of whom only 28,000 were adult males."
Nearly all those adult males were too old to father a child. As a result, practically all the present population of Paraguay descends from the happy crewmen on ships that traded up the river from Argentina after the war.
(* How does it happen, I wonder, that with a prewar population estimate subject to a 50% margin of error, there is such a precise number five years later?)
There was a series of graphic novels about this that was actually really, really good, called "Y: The Last Man." The main protagonist is the last man alive in the world after some event kills everything with a "Y" chromosome. Many women perish in disasters that are results of the mens' death; entire species of animals die out over the course of months and years... it's actually quite fascinating. You should check it out:
The sort of scary thing is that in a purely reproductive sense men might eventually become obsolete. With biological-technological developments like artificial insemination and genetic engineering women might not need us to reproduce.
Without our sperm cells, aren't we just big, dumb galoots to women?
The sort of scary thing is that in a purely reproductive sense men might eventually become obsolete. With biological-technological developments like artificial insemination and genetic engineering women might not need us to reproduce.
Without our sperm cells, aren't we just big, dumb galoots to women?
Where will the semen come from? If its artificially produced then how can it pass new life on?
We are a lot closer than you think to being able to procreate in a laboratory environment, with no males present. All offspring could, by design, be girls, whose genetic code would be passed on through artificial recombination.
Just choose an ideal population for the planet, and produce enough offspring to maintain the optimum concentration.
As a male, I personally don't really find that to be such a bad idea. If sexually diverse parents are not needed for reproduction, why continue to produce them?
Of course, male scientists could do the same thing and write females out of the script, but I have a feeling they probably would be no more inclined to do that than to abolish beer.
The good news is that some day, probably sooner than later, some catastrophe would result in science forgetting how to do it, and there will be no going back to the old way. Then, humans will become extinct, and the earth can gradually start working its way back to a healthy ecology.
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