# Are men in general actually worred about this? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 13, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276 "2007-11-13T19:28:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/1 "2007-11-13T19:28:59Z")
In an online conversation with a male acquaintance, he said that advancements in cloning made him nervous because “They’re showing women that men aren’t necessary.” Is this something that men really worry about? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/2 "2007-11-13T19:31:34Z")
It’s not something I worry about. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/3 "2007-11-13T19:32:09Z")
Only men who belong to the tinfoil hat brigade would worry about something this stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/4 "2007-11-13T19:33:00Z")
Not me, not as long as there are spiders that need squished. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/5 "2007-11-13T19:37:29Z")
No worries from me. No worries I have ever heard a fellow male express. It is quite the leap (of ignorance and paranoia) to come to that conclusion. What was he watching, Spock’s Brain? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/6 "2007-11-13T19:42:56Z")
[QUOTE=fishbicycle] Only men who belong to the tinfoil hat brigade would worry about something this stupid. [/QUOTE] That was my gut reaction, but hey, I’ve been surprised before. (I can’t believe I typoed in the title. Damn.) ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/7 "2007-11-13T19:43:14Z")
I’ll worry, first, about whether the zombie, alien penguin armies will attack Rochester, before I worry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/8 "2007-11-13T19:48:36Z")
I don’t know many women that, given the choice, would choose to clone over traditional methods. Sex with a man is still the easiest, cheapest, and by far the most pleasant way to get pregnant. Plus most women still want to raise children with the help of a man. I don’t think men have to worry. Plus, as someone else mentioned, there are still the spiders. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/9 "2007-11-13T19:50:38Z")
Heh. Who’s gonna do all the heavy lifting around my house? 😛 As long as she who must be obeyed needs things picked up… I’ll be safe. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/10 "2007-11-13T19:52:06Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/11 "2007-11-13T19:53:29Z")
I never thought that women will like men until something different comes along. We already have that to some degree. They are called lesbians and most women have refused to convert. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/12 "2007-11-13T19:54:22Z")
Cloning worries me, but not for that reason. Geez. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/13 "2007-11-13T19:54:37Z")
Anybody who has been a regular reader of these boards for a while already knows I’m unnecessary… The wife just keeps me around to keep her feet warm at night. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/14 "2007-11-13T20:05:37Z")
I don’t worry about that. I’m already here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/15 "2007-11-13T20:12:12Z")
Isn’t something I’m worried about. Even at my most frustrated I would never ever do without women. I suspect that many women feel the same about men. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/16 "2007-11-13T20:13:16Z")
I’ve actually witnessed the sort of opposite. A businessman I know who’s got a mean misogynistic streak decided he wanted kids without a woman in his life. Fair enough. But he never would have been allowed to adopt, considering his lifestyle and hard-to-conceal temper. So he bought eggs and paid a surrogate (whom he had little to no contact with). Technically, women were involved, but he found a way for them to have as little involvement as possible… until the kid was actually born and assigned four different female nannies, that is. Obviously the fact that, after conception, a woman can bring a child into the world (or decide not to) has freaked out some men over the ages, resulting in some pretty nasty treatment. But if a man thinks women only consider men ‘necessary’ for babies, get him to a sperm bank. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/17 "2007-11-13T20:23:53Z")
[QUOTE=fishbicycle] Only men who belong to the tinfoil hat brigade would worry about something this stupid. [/QUOTE] Says the person with the most feminist username on the SDMB! I believe this is a double-bluff, and therefore I’m terrified. Except I’m not using the tinfoil on my head… ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/18 "2007-11-13T20:39:27Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] I’ll worry, first, about whether the zombie, alien penguin armies will attack Rochester, before I worry about that. [/QUOTE] I worry about a Canadian invasion too, but I’m glad to know you are up there on the line in Rochester as a first line of defense. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/19 "2007-11-13T20:45:51Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] Says the person with the most feminist username on the SDMB! I believe this is a double-bluff, and therefore I’m terrified. Except I’m not using the tinfoil on my head… [/QUOTE] I’d like to say that I understand what this means. After all, they’re words. They’re even in English. But if I said I had even a glimmer of insight into what they mean when strung together like that, I’d be lying. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276/20 "2007-11-13T20:48:59Z")
I dunno, are women worried about the advancements in sex bots? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-in-general-actually-worred-about-this/426276.md?page=2)