Are there any men out there who feel threatened by the fact that women no longer need you to be able to reproduce? That in a few years if all children were female the race would not die out? Is male an endangered species?
Not really. It may be true that the double X chromosome of women may allow them to easily reproduce without the Men, but it would be dependant in technology. Unless there was some sorta Gendercide this technology will never become cheap enough for the general publics use, and thus men will always be kept around.
~wipes brow~ whew :p, i’m glad I still have a right to exist.
Geeze, is that all that women want us for? To reproduce? 
Peace,
mangeorge
I only know two things;
I know what I need to know
And
I know what I want to know
Mangeorge, 2000
No, silly, we also want you to do the dishes and change the oil filter.
Otium, Catulle, tibi molestum est:
otio exsultas nimiumque gestis:
otium et reges prius et beatas
perdidit urbes.
Yeah. My lawn needs mowing too. 
Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to.
Oh good. I feel much more secure now, thanks ladies.
Well, okay, there IS the fact that you fellas can be awfully fun to play with… 
For me, a tall, dark, handsome woman named Mathilda just wouldn’t cut it. So some of you gents are just going to have to stick around.
Threatend? By a machine? Believe me, a dildo and a cloning machine will probably never replace us men. I hope… ::fretfull::
I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.
Didn’t Cordwainer Smith cover this issue years ago?
The word is fatherless not bastard.
I think men are already being omitted by the number of women willing to have children without being married to the father.
Cybil Shepherd has done some non-technical engineering by selecting short term sperm donors and walking off with the kiddies. Didn’t Madonna do the same?
Are you driving with your eyes open or are you using The Force? - A. Foley
As long as there are strange bugs to kill and jars to open, we male humans will always have our ecological niche.
Cheval Bleu
Bug Killer Extraordinaire
…send lawyers, guns, and money…
Warren ZevonThe idea that “anything you can do, we women can do just as well/better” is an extreme-feminist myth. I highly recommend reading Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps. It’s a slighty fun look at the real, researched facts about how male and female brains operate differently.
For example, a man is naturally better at judging linear relationships and angles than a woman. However, a woman is far superior at broad range vision.
Women can mentally multitask in a way that would confound most men, who by default can only handle one task at a time.
So in the end, for the human race to be successful, at least for a few million years while our brain wirings alter, men need to exist. If it was just women, there would be a serious shortage of engineers and then you have bridges collapsing and buildings falling on people. Among other things.
BJ
Um…er…no, no thanks…I’d rather become obsolete, thanks…
Ick…bugs…
Eschew Obfuscation
Knee-jerk rant here:
Every time you here of a study that says “Group A is better than Group B at C” remember that inevitably the difference is slight and, more importantly, the variation within both groups will be many times greater than the variation between the two groups. This means that these comparisons are effectivly useless on the level of individuals. Furthermore, whether differences between sexes or races or whatever are caused be genetics or socializtion is a very hot topic. No one really knows. However, it does seem true that as social preconceptions fall, womens’ scores in traditionally male areas are rising steadily. And I am willing to bet a man could learn to multitask if he were taught to as a boy.
Hey, I multitask continually.
oops – gotta go . . .
The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
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MandaJO, I am not arguing with you, just looking for more info.
Please tell me how to learn multitasking. I’m serious. It’s probably one of the most valuable skills I might learn at this point. And if I’m too old and it’s too late for me, then how might I teach it to my sons?
Keeves, you could always practice at my house on any school day morning.
You’d have to make breakfast, supervise the showering/dressing/grooming/eating of three kids (No, you are not wearing that to school), feed the puppy, then make sure you take her out as soon as she is finished so she doesn’t “go” on the floor, make sure all three kids have lunches/money/homework/permission slips, get yourself showered and dressed, get together everything you need to take with you, and oh yes, child #1 just announced that he needs 32 frozen orange juice lids for an important project that is due today. The bus will be here in 30 minutes. Go.
Lucretia, that’s a riot (and I know it’s true!)
Keeves, or you could try and be a secretary/receptionist at a busy office. Phone ringing, one call already on hold, answering another, someone at your desk talking to you while you’re on the phone and expecting you to listen, and a 7 documents to produce in the next 1/2 hour.
BlakJak is exactly right. Women and men are NOT equal. Yes, we deserve and should be given equal rights and protections under the law, but that’s where “equality” ends between the sexes. We’re SO different it’s amazing any of us find enough common ground to even have relationships. I mean, how many times have you heard one sex complain that they “just don’t understand” the other sex? There’s a reason for this - our brains developed completely different skills and weaknesses.
Men are generally better at devising strategies and intuiting landscapes and direction, and pursuing mathematics and engineering types of endeavors, while women are generally better at manual dexterity, just about ANYthing involving communication or nurturing, and can multi-task like mad. (Now don’t get all bent, these are broad strokes I’m using, but true nonetheless.)
I think more and more folks are beginning to understand this concept and aren’t so threatened by it. However, I still run into feminists (gah!) who practically go into a blind rage when I mention this. Fortunately, I think this rabid feminism stuff is on the wane . . . lordy, I pray it is. They give the rest of us a terrible name, and only confuse the poor men!
Bunnygirl, you forgot: “And by this afternoon, I’d like you to find me a meeting room and book it for the whole day this coming Friday, and coordinate a good time that the other 37 attendees can all attend a four-six hour meeting, order/coordinate food and drink, travel plans, and daycare, and be sure my grey suit is pressed for the meeting. And oh yeah, did you order my lunch, yet?”
AAAHHHH!!! :: :pounding head against desk:::
StoryTyler
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.”