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In reply to the discussion: Since anyone with a penis is a potential rapist there is only but one (or two) answers: [View all]Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)16. I doubt your '70's short story of women erasing men...
...was anywhere as good "Huston, Huston Do you Read" by James Tiptree, jr. (pseudonym of Alice Sheldon), where three astronauts from the 70's arrive in a future where there are only women, no men. I recommend anyone who wants to write a story about a world without men read it.
Interesting thing is, it's possible and the men won't have to be brought back:
Fertility specialists have found a way for women to have babies without men.
It involves a cocktail of chemicals acting as an 'artificial sperm' to trick a human egg into forming an embryo.
It involves a cocktail of chemicals acting as an 'artificial sperm' to trick a human egg into forming an embryo.
From here.
Interesting how men who write such stories always seem to have the women regret the decision and bring them back, where as women who write such stories never have the women regretting it and bringing the men back. I don't know if it's in "Huston" or "Herland" (a similar story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman written back in 1915), but in one of the two it's pointed out by a woman from the all woman society that, from what she's hearing, the only advantage men give women in a mixed society is to protect them from other men.
I don't necessarily agree, but it does make one think, especially if we look at societies where women can't go out without a male relative, etc.
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Since anyone with a penis is a potential rapist there is only but one (or two) answers: [View all]
Whovian
Dec 2012
OP
Women, religions, races... there is oppression far too often but inroads have been made.
Whovian
Dec 2012
#111
It comes from the book Global Woman. I don't have the specific page number handy.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#15
Considering that India and China together has a large part of the population of the world
KitSileya
Dec 2012
#46
I posted a link to a thread I made the other day in an edit to the previous response.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#29
History is more than merely one thing, regardless of what bumper-stickers may say.
LanternWaste
Dec 2012
#64
If you like history, you should be able to quickly research such things yourself. India is
Zorra
Dec 2012
#38
Well the links I provided did offer some history. I didn't expect to have to spell it out.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#73
Shocking! But you do, of course, realize that no example that you post will ever be good enough, no
Zorra
Dec 2012
#72
One of the most common themes in Western art is the "rape of the Sabine women."
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#136
Guess what? *I* can't tell when someone has the intention of trying to mug me...
a geek named Bob
Dec 2012
#39
"There's a lot of implication that men NEED to take special courses." Well, Bob, if the
retread
Dec 2012
#57
gollygee, I learned a long time ago to NOT count on other people for protection...
a geek named Bob
Dec 2012
#127
THank you for the compliment! I will keep in my list of happy thoughts.
a geek named Bob
Dec 2012
#109
I imagine the person who allows only one (or two) solutions to any given problem is either
LanternWaste
Dec 2012
#68