# It's a man's world **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 27, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848 "2014-01-27T15:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/1 "2014-01-27T15:28:46Z")
For some unknown reason all human females die out over a short period of time(say, two years), and we can’t bring them back. Do we perfect cloning before dying out? How will society change? Will certain religious groups stop condemning homosexuals, or just dig in their heals? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/2 "2014-01-27T15:35:51Z")
I think we’d become much sadder as a species. I imagine most of the religious groups would preach that it’s the end times and that all are called to celibacy so homo- or heterosexuality would be irrelevant. The misogynists would have to come to the realization that it’s not women keeping them down, it’s their ugly personalities. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/3 "2014-01-27T15:39:33Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I imagine most of the religious groups would preach that it’s the end times and that all are called to celibacy so homo- or heterosexuality would be irrelevant. This might cause a drop in funds when the offering plate is passed. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/4 "2014-01-27T15:42:37Z")
We wouldn’t have to worry about anything. The males would kill each other off or suicide in short order (like a couple of weeks.) There would be no society to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/5 "2014-01-27T15:55:42Z")
I can’t imagine living in a world with no women in it. It would be horrible, and I’d be depressed as hell. After raising my son to adulthood, I’d probably find a nice high place to jump off of. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/6 "2014-01-27T15:57:57Z")
Cloning would probably still require human ovum to start with. So there would have to be an effort to preserve those. I think it would be good to try cryogenically saving as many (whole) women as possible. If you have the eggs then you may as well make something new instead of a clone. Although probably select for males because of the prevailing conditions of this scenario. If the problem of continuing the human species is solved, at least to that extent, then I guess it’s time to think about getting a robot wife. I guess no looking down on otaku perverts anymore. ☹ I hope I can get one that transforms into a motor scooter that I can ride for short commutes. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/7 "2014-01-27T15:59:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > This might cause a drop in funds when the offering plate is passed. I really think that without any women, the theology of homosexuality is going to be way down on the list of priorities. At least in America, women are and have been historically, pretty key to things getting done in the church. They run the fundraisers, they organize the church decorations, they do community outreach, they get everyone up and out the door for mass. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/8 "2014-01-27T16:01:15Z")
This was the premise of Phylip Wylie’s novel _The Disappearance_. George Pal was preparing to make a movie version of it, but died before he could. Some storyboards were published in _Cinefantastique_. Frank Herbert (_Dune_) also treated a World Without Women in his novel _The White Plague_. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/9 "2014-01-27T16:01:35Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > After raising my son to adulthood, I’d probably find a nice high place to jump off of. Wow. Worst birthday ever. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/10 "2014-01-27T16:04:12Z")
I wonder how various religions would cope with and/or explain what happened? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/11 "2014-01-27T18:11:28Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > This was the premise of Phylip Wylie’s novel _The Disappearance_. George Pal was preparing to make a movie version of it, but died before he could. Some storyboards were published in _Cinefantastique_. > Frank Herbert (_Dune_) also treated a World Without Women in his novel _The White Plague_. I never read it. How did men handle the situation in the book? ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/12 "2014-01-27T18:16:48Z")
My very first thought was, “OK, what is the least painful way to commit suicide,” because honestly y’all, the idea of living without my SO and my many and sundry sisters would be too much for me to handle. Perhaps a bit melodramatic, but I may not be in the fringe on this matter. I know men bond with each other, and I have many gay friends who would sail through this with less angst and grief, but most of the men in my cadre would be at a loss without women. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/13 "2014-01-27T18:19:48Z")
I don’t think anyone, gay or straight, would be sailing through something like this. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/14 "2014-01-27T18:25:38Z")
Why in the world would you think the urgent priority here is whether we’re sufficiently condemnatory of religious groups? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/15 "2014-01-27T18:32:18Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Why in the world would you think the urgent priority here is whether we’re sufficiently condemnatory of religious groups? What are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/16 "2014-01-27T18:58:43Z")
I think that in the ensuing time between when we find out women are dying en masse and when the last one is expected to die off, life will be very harsh for women. There will probably be a large number of men condemning, punishing, and kidnapping them. Men will do horrible things, no woman, old or young, firm or infirm, will be spared. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/17 "2014-01-27T19:03:36Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I think that in the ensuing time between when we find out women are dying en masse and when the last one is expected to die off, life will be very harsh for women. There will probably be a large number of men condemning, punishing, and kidnapping them. Men will do horrible things, no woman, old or young, firm or infirm, will be spared. I was thinking that was a possibility, also. I can see there being a massive effort to get as many women pregnant as possible, and a horrifying percentage of them will not be willing volunteers. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/18 "2014-01-27T19:07:26Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Why in the world would you think the urgent priority here is whether we’re sufficiently condemnatory of religious groups? Oh snap! Seriously, **Czarcasm** , do you really think we’re that stupid that we can’t see this is another “o noes religion is teh suxor!” threads in disguise? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/19 "2014-01-27T19:15:05Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Oh snap! > Seriously, **Czarcasm** , do you really think we’re that stupid that we can’t see this is another “o noes religion is teh suxor!” threads in disguise? :dubious: Because, except for a post where I wondered how different religions would handle the situation, the _rest_ of us have been talking about other things? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848/20 "2014-01-27T19:16:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What are you talking about? Half the human race is dying off, with the other half following it into extinction in a few years, and you’re desperate to argue whether certain religious groups will finally manage to be gay-friendly. Source: your OP. :rolleyes: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-mans-world/679848.md?page=2)