What if all the men disappeared from the surface of the earth?

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BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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More women would get into fields that have been historically male dominated.
1.) there will be opportunites for new people
2.) there will no longer be a "boys club" mentality which can often make women feel unwelcome

As far as "continuing the human race", I assume they would just take sperm from pre-op trans women and use that for artificial insemination.
Also, I assume women who are already pregnant will have boys, so, there wont need to be some kind of scif YY + YY chromosome parent.

Also, Pink Guy, Francis, and Salamander Man would come across the omniverses from other realms to help the humans of earth through any crisis of that magnitude.
 

FerrelGeek

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Jan 22, 2009
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Dude, he's not talking about women's ability to do construction, he's talking about the current quantity of women in construction - especially heavy construction. The oil/gas industry is also predominantly male. There'd be a huge amount of initial chaos until those positions could be filled.

You sound pretty dumb. Connect the dots here. Those women were sent out to work due to wartime effort. Now with no men they would be sent out again to do those once masculine dominated jobs.

Point is they previously demonstrated their ability to perform the work. I imagine since there have been a steady increase of women in the workplace as well as those above-mentioned fields, you'd have more women and more effective.

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[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
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More women would get into fields that have been historically male dominated.
1.) there will be opportunites for new people
2.) there will no longer be a "boys club" mentality which can often make women feel unwelcome

As far as "continuing the human race", I assume they would just take sperm from pre-op trans women and use that for artificial insemination.
Also, I assume women who are already pregnant will have boys, so, there wont need to be some kind of scif YY + YY chromosome parent.

Also, Pink Guy, Francis, and Salamander Man would come across the omniverses from other realms to help the humans of earth through any crisis of that magnitude.
I assumed that per the OP, all sperm was gone. Post-op trans wasn't specifically cited but that'd be a glaring omission from what is otherwise a seeming scouring of Y chromosomes. I'd assume male unborn babies would also be included in this.
 

steppinthrax

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I assumed that per the OP, all sperm was gone. Post-op trans wasn't specifically cited but that'd be a glaring omission from what is otherwise a seeming scouring of Y chromosomes. I'd assume male unborn babies would also be included in this.
I didn't think to exclude already pregnant women and post-trans. But regardless I'm thinking genetic engineering would fix any of this. It's just the coordination and how they want to do it.

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[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
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I didn't think to exclude already pregnant women and post-trans. But regardless I'm thinking genetic engineering would fix any of this. It's just the coordination and how they want to do it.

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Is it even possible to genetically engineer your way into some sort of artificial Y chromosome, or an asexual reproduction cycle? Beyond pure cloning, I mean... I guess that's a useful stopgap.
 

steppinthrax

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Is it even possible to genetically engineer your way into some sort of artificial Y chromosome, or an asexual reproduction cycle? Beyond pure cloning, I mean... I guess that's a useful stopgap.
I didn't exclude preexisting genetic material lying around cemeteries.

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FerrelGeek

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It's a valid point though. There'd be a premium on carrots, cucumbers, and zucchinis besides the raids on the 'personal massagers' suppliers. Lots of well exercised fingers as well.

This is NOT where I wanted this to go.

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FerrelGeek

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Less violence? Clearly you've never watched 'Deadly Women'.

Hypothetical question.

I've thought about this for some time now. Assuming one day men as well as all the sperm within sperm banks disappeared from earth. There was no reason, trace or explanation but one day they are gone. How would the existing women on earth handle the situation. I'm not asking this to debate the intellectual ability of men or women, both genders are of equal capabilities. I'm asking how do you think they will band together to continue the human race. Would they try to use the existing scientific data to create other more men (genetic engineering)? Would they keep it female only, since it might mean less wars, violence, etc? Would the world be a better place?

Now let's also ask the question in reverse. Considering that men do not contain a womb, etc, how will they create life? How will they deal with this situation, will they try to create women?

Just some thought, I'm not trolling, i'm serious about this....
 

steppinthrax

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It's a valid point though. There'd be a premium on carrots, cucumbers, and zucchinis besides the raids on the 'personal massagers' suppliers. Lots of well exercised fingers as well.
I would imagine that dildos and other plastic/rubber objects would be used before vegetables.

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lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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You sound pretty dumb.
Look you stupid fucker. You asked the question, I answered it. In 30 years of construction I've seen no...

rod busters
iron workers
equipment operators
crane operators
carpenters
heavy laborers

The one woman I've seen was a welder if I remember right. And as a partial edit, I've seen a couple women wandering around buildings. Might have been doing sheetrock or something like that.

With enough time and money, anybody can do anything that doesn't violate physics. Women still don't do construction.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
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It's true that woman are rarely seen in certain trades, like never seen a woman in construction or mining, or lineman etc. I'm sure it happens and that's cool to see, but it's just very rare. It's not like companies are forbidding them though, it's just that they are less likely to want to do those jobs, just like guys are less likely to work at places that do manicures and stuff. Some professions just tend to attract a gender more than the other.

I imagine if all men vanished, and the human race (now all woman) realizes that there is no longer any chance of surviving, would perhaps either accept it's fate and live on till everyone is dead, or perhaps some groups would experiment, like perhaps even beastiality but at a more scientific level, like try to figure out how you can reproduce with another male animal and modify genes to try to get something as close as possible to a human to come out. I imagine it would not exactly be a girl having sex with a monkey, but probably more like injecting GMO sperm of one in the vagina. It would probably be rather contreversal and not everyone would participate but it would be an option for those who want kids. Once they get the genetics right they could probably get it to resemble a human. It would probably take many generations though.

Overall I think the human race would probably be pretty done at that point but I'm sure there would still be attempts to keep it going.

Eventually wild life would start to take over and the planet would eventually fix itself from all the damage we've done to it.
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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Look you stupid fucker. You asked the question, I answered it. In 30 years of construction I've seen no...

rod busters
iron workers
equipment operators
crane operators
carpenters
heavy laborers

The one woman I've seen was a welder if I remember right. And as a partial edit, I've seen a couple women wandering around buildings. Might have been doing sheetrock or something like that.

With enough time and money, anybody can do anything that doesn't violate physics. Women still don't do construction.


And in my 30+ years as a crane/heavy equipment operator, I saw women in all of those except heavy laborer positions. (concrete finishers would be another where women were rare...but not unheard of) (just like in most places I've been, it was unusual to see white men doing concrete work...usually black crews...or mexicans)

One of the toughest (attitude) iron workers I ever worked with was a woman. She used to talk about going home and beating her bitch...and she had a little scraggly chin-beard) Good hand though. I'd have worked with her anytime.
The first woman operator I ever worked with was a champ...if she had to pee, instead of driving to one of the porta-johns, (like some of the men did) she dropped her coveralls and pissed behind the cab of her scraper. Worked harder than any of the guys in her crew...and didn't bitch half as much. I only worked with a couple of women crane operators...with mixed results. One was the girlfriend of the equipment superintendent...and wasn't worth a shit in the seat...most of the others were good, reliable operators.

Maybe it's an east coast/west coast difference...I don't know, but saying there are no women in construction is silly.
 

Fern

Elite Member
Sep 30, 2003
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You sound pretty dumb. Connect the dots here. Those women were sent out to work due to wartime effort. Now with no men they would be sent out again to do those once masculine dominated jobs.

Point is they previously demonstrated their ability to perform the work. I imagine since there have been a steady increase of women in the workplace as well as those above-mentioned fields, you'd have more women and more effective.

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I don't imagine anyone really arguing that women couldn't do the work. However, they have to be trained by someone. If, as the OP proposes, all men suddenly disappeared I think the problem in male dominated fields is that no one will be left behind to train the women. During WWII there were men experienced in the fields who were left behind and could train the women (or any new worker for that matter).

Fern
 

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
Feb 14, 2004
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There was a Sliders episode about this back in the day:

http://sliders.wikia.com/wiki/Love_Gods

Sliders was a fun show because they could explore all of these ideas as parallel dimensions. In this episode, "biological warfare has killed off most of the male population."
 

John Connor

Lifer
Nov 30, 2012
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Now let's also ask the question in reverse. Considering that men do not contain a womb, etc, how will they create life? How will they deal with this situation, will they try to create women?


I've read recently men can have a uterus through surgery. Pretty damn disgusting.

but...

 

ImpulsE69

Lifer
Jan 8, 2010
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I've seen lots of women in construction............................................................................holding the signs.
 

MtnMan

Diamond Member
Jul 27, 2004
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Feminists would be pissed that they couldn't find any men to scream at.
 
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