Now that you’ve been corrected as to reason for this thread, perhaps we can concentrate on what it is really about-all the various consequences of a world that is suddenly deprived of women.
Give me a transformer wife and some lotion and I’m set.
Scientists will work 24/7 to kajigger a way to make female chimps look as humanly as possible as soon as possible. Then the boning bgins. In a few years this is your girlfriend.
Also the guys don’t want to make their monkey-ladies feel bad so they recarve the Lincoln Memorial into chimpanzee Abraham Lincoln.
Why am I envisioning an x-rated remake of Short Circuit?
“My name is Jonni 5 bucks for the first ten minutes, and a buck for each additional minute!”
Not sure where birthdays came into it, but whatever.
American Christianity, at least, would become pretty much impotent. Sure, most of the preachers are men, but it’s the women who keep the churches running and fill the pews. Lots of nominally conservative Christian men are going to just tell the pastors to fuck off.
This is one of the more messed-up hypotheticals we’ve had, but yes, cloning technology shifts into ultra-high gear. Sex is one thing; dying out as a species is quite another.
We’d juggle this as an issue, followed simultaneously by an attempt to figure out if the cause would spread to men, as the human race would be at stake.
I’d imagine such a doomsday scenario would get pretty disgusting and wouldn’t want to think of what it would look like.
I mean, how would you feel if the day you turned 18, your dad offed himself while you’re still dealing with the fallout of only recently losing your mother? Adult or no, I’d be a wreck.
Well, it wasn’t really just one post:
I think you’d be wrong. Women don’t want to see the world end either and I think once this becomes an honest-to-god epidemic, everyone would be trying to get pregnant.
Yeah, I can see how the first and third of those could be taken as an “urgent priority” to show “whether we’re sufficiently condemnatory of religious groups”, and that " this is another “o noes religion is teh suxor!” threads in disguise", and that my mentioning cloning and changes in society as the first two items to consider in the OP(along with the other things we’ve discussed in this thread) is just an elaborate con job to get y’all hooked in before I post a multi-paragraph rant about the evil Christians lying in wait.
Next time, why don’t you look for an actual nail before swinging that hammer, okey dokey?
That would be an interesting poll, wouldn’t it?
There’s some that wouldn’t want to be pregnant under any circumstances - can’t say I blame them.
In any case, while governments in general will do a lot of crazy things, I think generally we’ll see a lot of spending on ‘non-essential’ services like the military get axed. Bio labs will probably get authority to requisition anything they want, in a manner even more stringent than arms factories in WW2. Every bio major would have a free ride through college, every Bio PhD would have their own lab. Some of the other sciences would benefit from being related.
Some of the academic fields will get thrased though. Gender studies is probably going to go away. Any major that’s 80% female is probably getting shut down. I think we’ll have a problem with K-12 education as A - that field is going away as kids grow up and B - ISTM that many teachers are female now. The arts are probably going to lose all their funding as that gets redirected.
Politically, liberals will have a harder time being elected as women tend to vote more liberally than men (at least in the US). I can foresee a lot of welfare and food stamp programs going down the tubes. I could see governments deciding to let the old people starve as the funds for things like social security and medicare are redirected into research funding. Be interesting to see how the EPA is handled.
Could we figure out cloning in the next 30-40 years we have while there are still men young enough to raise children? I think so, especially if we become fanatically devoted to it. A bigger question will be how well will those children be raised, if all the educational, daycare, and other industries built around children have languished for a decade or two.
Maybe they can jigger some stem cells into making eggs. I posted this in the companion thread, but: organoids. Stage two would be working on ways to make men pregnant. The fertilized egg makes the placenta, umbilical cord, etc. I’ve seen speculation that it might be possible to attach a pregnancy to a man’s liver. There may be less incompatability to that than to using a chimp.
Any cloning would be a stop-gap. The species needs to mix the genes. Also, you lose telomeres when cloning.
Humanity dies out. We are quite a ways away from artificial wombs or growing a human fetus in an animal, even if we already had human cloning. And even if we invented such techniques they’d be terribly expensive and probably unreliable for a long time - that’s how technological development tends to work after all. And just like in the “what if all men died” thread, the gender imbalance in jobs will cause massive economic disjunction due to entire categories of workers essentially vanishing, making any such attempts even harder.
I don’t see us as being able to sustain our population.
Standard man-bashing. A world without men is a paradise, a world without women either destroys itself or is some militarized totalitarian state; because men are just that evil.
Straw man.
I wasn’t supporting what the other posters were saying. I was addressing what you said:
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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?
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(Bolding mine) You did not address how religions would handle this event in “a” post, you addressed it in three posts. Not only that, but you addressed it in all three of your first posts in this thread. So, by that time you had a 100% rate of bringing up how religions would react to this event.
Next time, why don’t you apply your “czarcasm” to something other that straw, okey dokey?
If this happens within the next year, I think it will be hard to perfect cloning, so unless we can freeze eggs, then humanity is likely doomed.
Also, it depends what kills off all human females. If it’s a virus that only affects people with XX chromosomes, then if we freeze eggs, and then fertilize them several years from now, when the virus has killed all its hosts and has thus likely disappeared, then we could get new females which would mean humanity continues.
If it’s a crazy alien race that zaps every female human born, then humanity dies out.
It’s in the first sentence of the OP:
Finally! No more talking about my “feelings”.
You’re reading in a bunch of stuff that I didn’t say. Did I define the arrival of adulthood? No, I didn’t. (Such moments are often only clear in retrospect anyway.) Did I say just how soon after he attained adulthood it would be before I made my final swan dive? No, I didn’t. And I certainly said nothing to imply that I’d do it that very day, even if we knew what day it was.
Also, what’s this about his having only recently lost his mother when I killed myself? I’m not going to consider him an adult before he graduates from elementary school.