# A world with out men?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 31, 1999, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448 "1999-12-31T05:48:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/1 "1999-12-31T05:48:00Z")
What would you have then?
A bunch of fat, happy women, with no crime. š
Itās sad because it most likely is true.
What else?
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### Author:  [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/2 "1999-12-31T06:03:00Z")
There would probably be a shortage of batteries. š
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Some drink at the fountain of knowledgeā¦others just gargle.
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### Author:  [@PitBullDawg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PitBullDawg)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/3 "1999-12-31T07:01:00Z")
Actually studies have shown that the most violent people have low levels of testosterone and high levels of ESTROGEN. Also, it went on to point out the fact that men are more likely to be hit by women and that women initiate violence in the home more often then men. Put that in your pipe and smoke on it.
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The ever insensitive, politically incorrect PitBullDawg. Political correctness is a disease. Cure it with the truth.
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/4 "1999-12-31T07:09:00Z")
Citation, please?
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āWednesday the 15th - Chris made one of her rare good points today.ā
_Guanolad_
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### Author:  [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/5 "1999-12-31T07:13:00Z")
The remote control would be MINE, MINE! Bwha ha ha! But then again, I rather DO like the orgasmsā¦
Remote control or orgasms? Hmmm, let me thinkā¦ how about remote control orgasms? Every time he touches the remote Iād have an orgasm? Oh, wait, I might DIE from thatā¦ Iād be willing to take the risk!
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Best!
Byz
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### Author:  [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/6 "1999-12-31T07:38:00Z")
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> A bunch of fat, happy women, with no crime.
Naw - I workout and eat right because it makes me feel good both mentally and physically. I donāt do it to impress men.
I canāt speak for other women, but as a heterosexual female, I tend to get a little - no - a LOT bitchy and unhappy if I donāt get laid by a man on a regular basis.
## As far as the no crime comment - Have you been around many women who suffer from PMS? They are homicidal!!!
\>^,^\<
KITTEN
Fluff yer hair Beula, Iās feelin frisky - M.S.
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### Author:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/7 "1999-12-31T14:28:00Z")
Iāve gotta see a cite too, PitBull. I promise not to call you any bad names until I read the studies you mention. š
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### Author:  [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/8 "1999-12-31T14:42:00Z")
shortage of batteries? naw, thereād be lots available because of no more battery-operated monster trucks.
rampant unemployment what with factories that make duct tape going out of business left & right.
iād be able to find ābuffy the vampire slayerā where itās supposed to be because it wouldnāt be pre-empted by some damn hockey game.
gotta go w/ the orgasm thing. definite downside.
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### Author:  [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/9 "1999-12-31T14:53:00Z")
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> I workout and eat right because it makes me feel good both mentally and physically. I donāt do it to impress men.
āDiane
Ahem, bullshit. I think if there where no men in this world, that beautiful body of yours (um, Iām just guessing here), wouldnāt please you as much as, say, chocolate cake?
Besides, what kinda fun would you women have without charming guys like me?
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Thereās always another beer.
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### Author:  [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/10 "1999-12-31T15:09:00Z")
A [cite](http://www.jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker120299.asp) for PitBullDawg.
Sorry that I donāt have a better biblography, but the studies mentioned in the article above are all I know of on the subject (admittedly, I have not done much research on this). From personal experince I have seen women strike men but I have never seen a man strike a women.
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Letting my inner child run loose and break things.
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### Author:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/11 "1999-12-31T15:22:00Z")
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> From personal experince I have seen women strike men but I have never seen a man strike a women.
Take it from someone whoās been in a physically abusive relationship. Men hit women. They really do. They do it for no reason, they do it for stupid reasons. Not all men do it, but if even one of them does it, thatās too many.
Iāve seen women hit men, too. Again, sometimes no reason, sometimes stupid reasons. Again, one is too many.
We need to start educating our kids, the boys as well as the girls, that abusive behavior, be it mental or physical, is very wrong, and should not be engaged in or tolerated.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/12 "1999-12-31T15:33:00Z")
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> But then again, I rather DO like the orgasmsā¦
š Some of us have orgasms regularly in our sleep!
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**StoryTyler**
āNot everybody does it, but everybody should.ā
[I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage)
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### Author:  [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/13 "1999-12-31T15:40:00Z")
hmm. wondered if i was the only one who did that. interesting, if confusing. time saver, tho.
what sort of higher plane are we operating at do you suppose, seeing as how the thing never seems to turn off?
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/14 "1999-12-31T15:49:00Z")
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> what sort of higher plane are we operating at do you suppose, seeing as
> how the thing never seems to turn off?
Heh! You know, I never looked into this too closely since knowing too much might make them stop! There was a discussion about this some time ago on the old AOL boards and someone came up with a statistic that (IIRC) this lovely event happens to roughly 3% of adult women. (Thank you Goddesses!) Mine usually arrive between 3 and 5 a.m. (three to four times a month) and donāt seem to be connected to erotic dreams - at least Iām never able to recall any dreams. Of course, this kind of wake-up call tends to put all other thoughts right out of my headā¦
ā¦but Iām not complaining!
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**StoryTyler**
āNot everybody does it, but everybody should.ā
[I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage)
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### Author:  [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/15 "1999-12-31T16:27:00Z")
Where I work there are out men all over the place. We all get along just fine š
Catrandom
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/16 "1999-12-31T16:31:00Z")
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> Some of us have orgasms regularly in our sleep!
Thereās something you can take for that.
Sominex.
Thank you, thank you, youāre too kind. Iāll be opening for Jackie Mason next week at the Tropicana. Good night and God bless.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/17 "1999-12-31T16:47:00Z")
Alfie, its a book about this. All virgin women & one day they find a man in the artic in the ice & they bring him to life. They have to then learn to have sex, etc.
Hey Mark, I bet you would like to be that guy :-)?
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### Author:  [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/18 "1999-12-31T17:02:00Z")
that is the reeally strange thing about it, the dream thing. iāve heard, of course, of menās āwet dreamsā; but i remember my dreams & they are only very rarely sexy ones.
sometimes iāll be awakened a couple of times a night maybe 3 times a week, then nothing for several months. & it doesnāt seem to be definitely tied to whether or not iām otherwise involved in a sexual relationship. luck of the draw as far as the wiring is concerned, i guess. iāll take it.
hey, whatchu looking at? donāt let us bother the rest of you guys. you can go on chatting.
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The purpose of life is to matter, to count, to have it make a difference you lived at all.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/19 "1999-12-31T17:32:00Z")
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> Alfie, its a book about this. All virgin women & one day they
> find a man in the artic in the ice & they bring him to life. They
> have to then learn to have sex, etc.
Or, for a different take on it, Joanna Russ wrote one **[The Female Man]** about men arriving on a human-settled world in which a virus had killed off all the men a few generations back (the women reproducing via test tube oofusion). The women seemed rather underwhelmed and confused about why the men thought that their arrival would be a big deal.
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### Author:  [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-world-with-out-men/12448/20 "1999-12-31T17:48:00Z")
OMG No men!!! Tell me it isnāt so!!! Who on earth would I have to tease, harass and generally make life miserable for? Let alone take to the Monster Truck rallies.
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I really try to be good but it just isnāt in my nature!
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