Ladies, this could be a blessing or a curse

[Le Jacquelope]

On one hand it looks like Nature is waging war against oppression of women with the help of chemical pollution.

On the other hand, if we don't stop this, who will you have left to blame when stuff goes wrong?

http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/v/11014847

 

[Shwenn]

On the other hand, if we don't stop this, who will you have left to blame when stuff goes wrong?

You do realize that you are the only person here with an obsessive, angry, stereotype-based contention with an entire gender, don't you?

You are the only person here who blames an entire gender for your petty little woes.

So, if you think that behavior is pathetic, AND IT IS, invest in a mirror.

You don't see Safe Bet making constant, derisive posts about straight people, do you? She's got a hell of a lot more cause to do that than you have to keep making these misogynistic posts of yours. Take note of that, really bear down and try to get a fucking clue, please.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

Hell, chemicals may not be the only way to wipe us out...

or:

Was Maureen Dowd a prophet?

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...35754C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print

July 9, 2003
Incredible Shrinking Y
By MAUREEN DOWD; THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN IS ON VACATION.

Why, oh Y, are men so insecure?

The darlings have been fretting for some years now that they may be rendered unnecessary if women get financial and biological independence, learning how to reproduce and refinance without them. What if nature played a cruel trick and demoted men, so they had to be judged merely by their appearance, pliability and talent for gazing raptly at the opposite sex, no matter how bored?

New research on the Y chromosome shows that my jittery male friends are not paranoid; they are in an evolutionary shame spiral.

As Nicholas Wade wrote in The Times: ''Although most men are unaware of the peril, the Y chromosome has been shedding genes furiously over the course of evolutionary time, and it is now a fraction of the size of its partner, the X chromosome. . . . The decay of the Y stems from the fact that it is forbidden to enjoy the principal advantage of sex, which is, of course, for each member of a pair of chromosomes to swap matching pieces of DNA with its partner.''

Mr. Wade said that biologists in Cambridge, Mass., had made a remarkable discovery: ''Denied the benefits of recombining with the X, the Y recombines with itself.''

The ultimate guys' night out. Simply put, the Y chromosome figured out a Herculean way to save itself from extinction by making an incredibly difficult hairpin turn and swapping molecular material with itself.

Self-love as a survival mechanism: the unflinching narcissism of men may send women into despair at times, but it has saved their sex for the next 5 million or 10 million years.

But, according to Olivia Judson, science's answer to the sensual British cook Nigella Lawson, men may need more than narcissism to survive.

Dr. Judson, a 33-year-old evolutionary biologist at Imperial College in London who has written a book about animals in a Dear Abby style, or Deer Abby, under the pen name Dr. Tatiana, says the worm has turned. ''For a long time, it was assumed that promiscuity was good for males and bad for females in terms of the number of kids they could have,'' she explains. ''But it wasn't until 1988 that it really started to become evident that females were benefiting from having sex with lots of males, with more promiscuous females having more and healthier offspring.''

In her book, Dr. Judson writes about powerful babes, noting that females in more than 80 species, like praying mantises, have been caught devouring their lovers before, during or after mating. ''I'm particularly fond,'' she told me, ''of the green spoon worm. . . . The male is 200,000 times smaller, effectively a little parasite who lives in her reproductive tract, fertilizing her eggs and regurgitating sperm through his mouth.''

And then there's the tiny female midge, who plunges her proboscis into the male midge's head during procreation. As Dr. Judson told the journalist Ken Ringle, ''Her spittle turns his innards to soup, which she slurps up, drinking until she's sucked him dry.''

The Economist recently reported on a variation of the creepy-crawly girl-eats-boy love stories. The male orb-weaving spider kills himself before the female has a chance to. Biologists now believe that the male orb-weaver dies when he turns himself into a plug to prevent other males from copulating, thus ensuring his genes are more likely to live on.

In a new book called ''Y: The Descent of Men,'' Steve Jones, a professor of genetics at University College in London, says males, always a genetic ''parasite,'' have devolved to become the ''second sex.''

The news that Dolly the sheep had been cloned without masculine aid sent a frisson through the Y populace, he writes, because men began to fear that science would cause nature to return to its original, feminine state and men would fade from view.

The Y chromosome, ''a mere remnant of its once mighty structure,'' is worried about size. ''Men are wilting away,'' Dr. Jones writes. ''From sperm count to social status and from fertilization to death, as civilization advances, those who bear Y chromosomes are in relative decline.''

Perhaps that's why men are adapting, becoming more passive and turning into ''metrosexuals,'' the new term for straight men who are feminized, with a taste for facials, grooming products and home design.

Better to be an X chromosome than an ex-chromosome.

E-mail: liberties@nytimes.com

 

[3113]

On one hand it looks like Nature is waging war against oppression of women with the help of chemical pollution.

This is terrible. It ruins all my plans for male enslavement. We naturally brilliant and superior females are just going to have to reverse the damage the men are doing to themselves in their desperate attempt to be equal to women (hermaphrodite polar bears! Can't they even get turning themselves into women right? What a literally half-assed thing to do!).

Once we women reverse this trend, we can enslave men and keep them from doing any more damage to the planet or themselves. It's for their own good and ours, after all.

 

[slyc_willie]

This is terrible. It ruins all my plans for male enslavement. We naturally brilliant and superior females are just going to have to reverse the damage the men are doing to themselves in their desperate attempt to be equal to women (hermaphrodite polar bears! Can't they even get turning themselves into women right? What a literally half-assed thing to do!).

Once we women reverse this trend, we can enslave men and keep them from doing any more damage to the planet or themselves. It's for their own good and ours, after all.

When that happens, do I get to keep my Star Wars and Superman collections? I mean, yes, they're both terribly chauvinistic, but they mean a lot to me.

In trade, you can eradicate all references to John Wayne if you like.

 

[3113]

When that happens, do I get to keep my Star Wars and Superman collections? I mean, yes, they're both terribly chauvinistic, but they mean a lot to me.

We understand that these are the opiates of the male gender, and so, yes, of course, if you work hard and do what you're told by your benevolent mistresses you'll be rewarded with new Superman comics and Star Wars cartoons as well as other boy toys like basketballs and gameboys to keep you docile and happy.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

This is terrible. It ruins all my plans for male enslavement. We naturally brilliant and superior females are just going to have to reverse the damage the men are doing to themselves in their desperate attempt to be equal to women (hermaphrodite polar bears! Can't they even get turning themselves into women right? What a literally half-assed thing to do!).

Once we women reverse this trend, we can enslave men and keep them from doing any more damage to the planet or themselves. It's for their own good and ours, after all.

I sincerely doubt you can reverse the trend. You need geneticists and chemists alike to find solutions against it.

Time to bum rush science and biology as a major, eh?

 

[slyc_willie]

We understand that these are the opiates of the male gender, and so, yes, of course, if you work hard and do what you're told by your benevolent mistresses you'll be rewarded with new Superman comics and Star Wars cartoons as well as other boy toys like basketballs and gameboys to keep you docile and happy.

Hmm . . . plot bunny!

 

[3113]

I sincerely doubt you can reverse the trend. You need geneticists and chemists alike to find solutions against it.

Time to bum rush science and biology as a major, eh?

No need. The secret cabal of the female gender, started back in the late 1700's by Mary Wolstonecraft Shelly and her daughter, who brought her mother back to life (but that's another story) has been training brilliant geneticists and chemists for just such a situation for over two-hundred years. Back in 1950 it became clear that this particular situation was likely, and we've been working on solutions for over fifty years. We should be able to get it under control and reverse the trend quite quickly--so long as you men are willing to pay the price. We figured that you men will want, desperately, to keep your maleness and will do anything we women command if we offered you a chance to avoid being emasculated by your own wrong-headed chemistry.

Thus shall we enslave you all! The revolution has come at last. The Daughters of Eve shall rise to glory!

Hmm . . . plot bunny!

But of course. Oh, and you're not naked enough! All male avatars must feature full nudity from now on. No coyness allowed.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

No need. The secret cabal of the female gender, started back in the late 1700's by Mary Wolstonecraft Shelly and her daughter, who brought her mother back to life (but that's another story) has been training brilliant geneticists and chemists for just such a situation for over two-hundred years. Back in 1950 it became clear that this particular situation was likely, and we've been working on solutions for over fifty years. We should be able to get it under control and reverse the trend quite quickly--so long as you men are willing to pay the price. We figured that you men will want, desperately, to keep your maleness and will do anything we women command if we offered you a chance to avoid being emasculated by your own wrong-headed chemistry.

Yeah, but you've got bigger problems than that. The difference between men and women is wavering, too. Look at men's fashions nowadays.

Sorry, but I ain't bettin' on you.

And God granted me daughters. I won't be contributing any draftees, alimony slaves, chivalry slaves or any fodder for the insurance discrimination machine. So whatever advantages you have, my kids have. LOL. If I hate women then why the hell did I celebrate passing out pink cigars?