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Quilt
10/23/09

In reply to Will Women Rule Over Men In The Future?
You mean women don't already? #futurism
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ArthurByronCover
10/22/09

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Philip Wylie's 1951 novel The Disappearance is about what happens when women are whisked off into another time line and men are left to their own devices. I haven't read it, but I betcha it's pretty tame by today's standards, though maybe a producer on the Logo network should think of optioning it. #futurism
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/22/09

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No Greg, you're not a man. You're a Momma's boy. At night when she's asleep you lock yourself in your bedroom and pleasure your self while sniffing her panties. It's the closest you'll ever come to 'being' with a woman. You have no interpersonal social skills. You have no friends. You live and breathe on your Mother's approval. What she jokingly refers to as 'love' is the only intimacy you'll ever know. You're sick Greg, real sick. The kind of sick that eats away at a person inside until they snap one day and take out a school bus full of Nuns. The kind of sick that can only be cured by doses of high-voltage applied through electrodes placed on your skull.
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Makidian
10/22/09

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My wife is the sole money maker in our house right now, and I have ben a stay at home parent for the last year and a half. It was a choice though, and to say it has been easy would be a flat out lie. As my kids get into school though I am rolling myself back into school so I can finish what I started. I have no problem with my wife being a successful worker that makes the money.

Hopefully I can get back into my old job next year and with her promotion we should be doing better than we ever have but getting there has been one of the most difficult tasks we have ever undertaken, and it doesn't help that I have fibromyalgia. #futurism
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gorehound
10/22/09

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i still have a copy of the world without men ace paperback from the 50's.
great read for you and there is a great paperback from beacon paperback but i forget the name of it.damn i used to own that one too. #futurism
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AshThePirate
10/22/09

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But the real question is, will we eventually end up eating men like all of these arachnids posts show? #futurism
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velleity
10/22/09

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Well, we all know it worked out ok, because he ended up with a pretty wife.

I mean, what kind of hellish nightmare of a future would it have been if Greg became a rocket cadet, but ended up with a plain wife?

There would be no point in fighting for that. #futurism
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Jesse Astle
10/22/09

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The basic plot of these stories: Women rule the world, women screw up world, men take over, everything's good again, and everybody has pg-13 missionary sex. Yay! #futurism
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nutbastard
10/22/09

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hey woah! that's my buddies dad! awesome! #steampunk
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Dresan
10/22/09

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I don't think this will happen in the future. Mainly because we humans learn from mistakes pretty quickly and would not begin again to discriminate based on sex.

Well it's a matter of time, really. Universities have more women than men in more than noticeable numbers. I think this applies to all countries right now, I'm not sure.

I say, serves you right. Lazy and dumb are not qualities that should be passed on to the future generations.

We'll see what happens in the next 20 years, maybe 10.

WE'LL SEE.
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tetracycloide
10/22/09

@Dresan: i can't tell if you're being sarcastic or naive. #futurism
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Pessimippopotamus
10/22/09

@tetracycloide: "Mainly because we humans learn from mistakes pretty quickly and would not begin again to discriminate based on sex."

This says sarcasm. #futurism
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tetracycloide
10/22/09

@Pessimippopotamus: you're just saying that because you've never met anyone that naive before. #futurism
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Pessimippopotamus
10/22/09

@tetracycloide: Now who's being naive? #futurism
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tetracycloide
10/22/09

@Pessimippopotamus: touché #futurism
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Roklimber
10/22/09

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It just occurred to me that, in chess, despite the fact that checkmating the king ends the game, the king is actually the least powerful piece on the board. The queen, alas, is the most powerful one. Ancient wisdom... #futurism
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cadrina
10/22/09

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What stupid ending, this guy instead of doing a story about equal right ends up doing something that gives reason to a sex dominance over other.
Anyway in USA at working age there isn't more women than men? And with the economy in the way it is most jobs being lost are typical male (construction and alike). but once these jobs start again will be hiring men for it.
I don't know how it is in the US but where I went to college there were three main buildings divided by subject, in the humans and social studies there wasn't visible diference of numbers between sexs but on the engeniring there was a lot more men and on the bio studies there were more women. #futurism
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nutbastard
10/22/09

@cadrina:

"What stupid ending, this guy instead of doing a story about equal right ends up doing something that gives reason to a sex dominance over other."

did you miss the part where this is from the 1950s? you know, before women could vote and stuff? #futurism
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nutbastard
10/22/09

@nutbastard:

er... i mean, uh... whoops. (just looked up womens suffrage... 1920's apparently.)

*facepalm* #futurism
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cadrina
10/22/09

@nutbastard: but one of the points of sci fi is thinking ahead of times, of seeing what is wrong with society and see how it could be, instead he writes a story that ends the same way that the world that he lives, no change, like the 1950s way is the wright one. No vision at all. #futurism
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shoroko
10/22/09

@nutbastard: I almost can't really blame you for this, considering they don't teach none of that radical suffragettes who got women the right to vote after being imprisoned and force-fed stuff in school. At least, not in any of my U.S. history classes. #futurism
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Sunshineyness
10/22/09

@shoroko: Oh don't you know? Susan B. Anthony was the only suffragette... too bad she died about a generation before the womenfolk got the right to vote.

But she was so plain and so non-aggressive in her push for the vote. We don't want the girls to know that it was people like Alice Paul and their crazy radicalism and sometimes violent protests that REALLY got the vote in motion... #futurism
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femme-bot
10/22/09

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I like Greg's kicky little outfit. #futurism
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Ruthless, If you let me
10/22/09

@femme-bot: It's like a "cabana boy" outfit. #futurism
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Franknbeans
10/22/09

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I actually don't think that the author of this comic actually thought this was his vision of the future. Just like a big chunk of Sci-Fi today the imagined world is just another way to look at our current world. I think John was just pointing out that his current world was off kilter because of their sex discrimination. Kind of a shoe is on the other foot thing. #futurism
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Dirk Anger
10/22/09

@Franknbeans: It looks like one of those "What if", the answer to most of which is "who cares". It seems like they paid someone a cent for a hundred of those titles. "What if spidey had six arms" "What if the Thing were brown instead of orange?" "What if Dr. Doom ruled Belize instead of Latveria?" #futurism
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Brian Fowler
10/22/09

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You know, we men wouldn't have this problem if we just gave women the same amount of pay for the same amount of work.

The biggest, if not the only reason female employees are increasing so much is so the workforce only has to get 80% of the pay they already do, from corporate fatcats who are just as much male chauvanists today as they were 80 years ago.

It's like when sweatshop owners smuggle in workers from China, Mexico and India, then wonder where all these foreigners came from. #futurism
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