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Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:00 AM

The end (of men) is coming!

Relax, people, human sperm created in a lab doesn't mean guys are becoming obsolete

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009 06:19 PM

Speaking as a man...bring on the single-sex future!

What's so bad about a world full of women? The one with 50% men seems well on on its way to flaming out. I'm totally down with this.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 06:43 PM

wow.

brightstar must be just choking with fury.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 06:55 PM

worry about being replaced?

the real worry is that we have been reduced to being thought of as necessary only for our sperm.

truly, truly SAD

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 06:56 PM

cute julie

I can't see bringing a kid into this world at this point... not with how fucked up things already are and what portends.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 07:03 PM

MRAs in the media?

How insecure do you have to be as a man to think that if women didn't need you to reproduce we'd...what, round you up into death camps?

Personally, given my lack of desire to reproduce, sperm is essentially of no use to me. And yet I still retain the desire to have sex with and form bonds with men.

Funny how that works.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 07:07 PM

Nice Headline

Now please....explain what the point of the post is.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 07:08 PM

@greenvelour

Please....you first.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 07:09 PM

a world without men

there will always be women who can pinch hit.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 07:27 PM

You still need us for one thing

In a world without men, who would kill spiders?

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 07:32 PM

until sperm pays alimony and child support...

...i guess we'll still be needed

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 07:38 PM

Thanks for clearing that up.

I was really worried there for a minute.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 07:46 PM

What would be wrong with that

In fact soon enough we won't need women either. A society of mules would be the first good step toward doing away with gender, sexuality and libido and all the waste that entails.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 08:03 PM

@ agore

In a world without men, who would kill spiders?

No one. The spiders would breathe easier (and keep eliminating those pesky mosquitos) when women caught them in Dixie Cups and put them outside - or in the nearest potted plant.

(sorry - couldn't resist... ^_~)

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 08:03 PM

I think it would work

an all female society, with Sybians lined up and being used morning to night. If women got bored, they could use rabbits on each other. makes perfect sense. then they could go pick berries in the woods together.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 08:15 PM

Let's be honest. Women hate our guts. Always have, always will.

If we didn't buy them stuff or pay their bills, they'd off us in a second. As I've said before, we're just pack animals for them.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 09:31 PM

men could be replaced now.

and it might be a better world.

unfortunately, the driving force of history is not philosophy but lust, arrogance and vanity. all products of testosterone.

in short, the thugs will continue to make the decisions.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 09:46 PM

If you allow gay female couples to produce children using the combined genetic material of both of them then the population will EVENTUALLY become overwhelmingly female. Period.

Unless the percentage of gay women changes, the percentage of gay women who want their own biological children changes, or unless something is done to produce "extra" men to compensate. All of these things could happen but the point is that simply allowing reproductive freedom will NECESSARILY lead to this change unless something is actively done to prevent it or people change what they want.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 09:50 PM

the question is how low would the percentage of men have to get before women would value them. I'm afraid it might be zero

When women get scare men want them more but I think if men were irrelevant to the functioning of the society women would lose interest altogether. It is not at all clear that a male body is intrinsically compellingly interesting to women simply because it is a male body (and mind). Unlike the case with male interest in females. I do hear though that in womens prisons the most sought after dykes are those who are the most indistinguishable form men so maybe the situation is not as hopeless as it appears.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 09:52 PM

It'll never work

Who will women sue for child support?

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 09:55 PM

A society of mules would be the first good step toward doing away with gender, sexuality and libido and all the waste that entails.

Yes in theory men could probably figure out a way to create people without women, the difference is that very few men want to be parents without women, but lots, well some, women want to do it without men. It is also much simpler technically for women (although there still are bugs to be worked out, this won't happen tomorrow and even when it starts it will take quite a while to have a huge practical effect, the more immediate question will be what will be the effects of everyone knowing this is happening).

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 09:57 PM

Who will women sue for child support

Each other of course, in fact they already are.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 10:31 PM

In the U.S., we are already living in a world without men.

As I wrote here:

http://fauxwhore.blogspot.com/2007/12/from-man-to-neo-male-wussapalooka.html

Thursday, July 9, 2009 03:45 AM

@magdelyn

This is what single motherhood and the feminization of the education system has wrought. The reality is there is still a large number of men being raised by men....unfortunately for liberals, the men will all grow up to be republicans, and you won't see these men in cities....at least not until they are in their 20's. I for one, will continue to promote fatherhood and maleness to my tribe, even if I'm the last democrat doing it.

Thursday, July 9, 2009 03:56 AM

Hahaha

Magdelyn, I like your blog post a lot. You forgot the other side of the coin that preceded the wussification of men: the masculinization of women.

Thursday, July 9, 2009 05:20 AM

Just Give Us Your Eggs, Go Away and Bitch at your Girlfriends

Men will just build tricked out incubators or better yet, stick the embryos in cows, or large dogs.

Yes, Tracy, Men can be every bit as low class and stupid as Women can be. We just need a little prod now and then.

Spread the hatred between the sexes because you can't call it racist.

Thursday, July 9, 2009 05:55 AM

Considering that we men are so damned destructive, I'm down with this too, Greenvelour.

Women probably would miss us at first, but they'd get over it.

Now the question is whether women would continue our finely man tradition of plundering and torturing and destroying everything around us.

Eh, but enough daydreaming. A world without men who hate women is a far better place to begin.

Thursday, July 9, 2009 07:00 AM

Well if it leads to a world without people, I'm all for it.

I want all people to die out. All of them.

Thursday, July 9, 2009 07:12 AM

But you could achieve the utopia right now... (@al loomis)

Why expect to the science to banish "those testosterone-poisoned thugs" from your life? So for the BS man-hating crowd I give you some useful advice.

You can live right now without man! It is not a dream! It is a reality! The dream is true! You have the power in your hands.

First, stop being involved romantically with men. Become a dyke. You will be better serve with a real human being than by a testosterone thug. Cloning would solve the reproduction thing. If not, you can get pregnant from a stranger (only thing where men are necessary until cloning is perfected)

Of course, stop demanding alimony and child support from the men. Some of you have confessed that are divorced and receiving money from your ex while hating men so much. Next time your ex brings you a check, strip it in front of him and tell: "I don't need your money, you bastard. I am not a wh*re".

Then, stop using all things invented by men: the electrical power, TV (bye, bye Oprah), the Internet, water supply in homes, constructions techniques, public light, books, economical systems, writing, accounting, chemistry, concrete and, in general, 99% of inventions in the history of humanity (even the childbirth technology was invented by men). Nobody needs nothing of these inventions. "the driving force of history is not philosophy but lust, arrogance and vanity. all products of testosterone." So reject all these testosterone-driven products and be free.

Then create a commune in the mountains with huts and live happily ever after with your dyke friends, without water and light.

And please stop complaining "where have all men gone". Please, shut the f*ck up.

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article3283690.ece

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Have-All-Good-Gone/dp/0736920633

http://simplyanne.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/where-have-all-the-good-men-gone/

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