Did You Pack The Jar Of Testicles?
Would a future women-only space colony have to live with that same fear? Would the very idea of a self-sufficient community of women so infuriate and threaten men that they would take it as a challenge to seek out and invade any feminist planet? And what about the frozen sperm?
I’m sorry. I’m reading the Guardian. Perhaps things will settle down.
If our future colony is reliant on what it can transport from Earth, stocks will eventually run out unless they can be replenished, which means giving birth to at least a few male children. Whether, in a matriarchal society without examples of male aggression, those boys would grow up to be the kind of man who grabs a peaceful protester by the back of her neck remains one of the great unknowns.
Or not. Never mind.
Readers may be tickled by the conceit that men would be infuriated and threatened by the departure from Earth of the planet’s feminists. And not, say, delighted. In fact, given recent trends, it seems more likely that feminists would be the ones determined to sabotage and eliminate any all-male spaces, while exempting themselves from comparable restrictions.
The rest is fairly predictable, the standard template, with jabs at “jowly white men in positions of power,” and inspirational rumblings in which women “just take the sperm and leave the men behind.” This bold vision of tomorrow is then traded for a more modest scenario, a compromise of sorts, in which, rather than being “redundant” and eliminated entirely, men are merely “educated… out of bullying and aggressive attitudes towards women” – an education that entails “putting women in positions of power on this planet before we think about how to populate others.”
We await the Guardian article in which a male columnist, perhaps white and somewhat jowly, ponders the appalling nature of women and how they require correction lest they contaminate the heavens with their inherent awfulness.
Via Guardian Science.
a self-sufficient community of women
Let me stop you right there.
Oh Yes! – Ark B – that’s a government project I can get behind
Would the very idea of a self-sufficient community of women so infuriate and threaten men that they would take it as a challenge to seek out and invade any feminist planet?
Nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Whether, in a matriarchal society without examples of male aggression, those boys would grow up to be the kind of man who grabs a peaceful protester by the back of her neck remains one of the great unknowns.
Because boys growing up in homes without fathers always turn out to be so peaceful.
Because boys growing up in homes without fathers always turn out to be so peaceful.
[ Slides fancy cocktail along bar. ]
On the house.
After the colony fails:
“It wasn’t real matriarchy.”
Other feminist ruminations on space travel can be found here and here.
Would the very idea of a self-sufficient community of women so infuriate and threaten men that they would take it as a challenge to seek out and invade any feminist planet?
No. Just sit back and watch (and laugh) as the Strong, Independent Womxn see their society collapse around them while they’re busy playing Mean Girl games and blaming the Patriarchy for the decay of their infrastructure (assuming they had one to begin with).
I’m sure the colony will all go beautifully well until a spider or a mouse turns up.
If they don’t take along at least one guy, there’s no sense in packing any pickles…
Raising Gazorpazorp
Do we get to choose who goes?
In Herland, the women had evolved to give birth only to daughters, but if our future colony is reliant on what it can transport from Earth, stocks will eventually run out unless they can be replenished, which means giving birth to at least a few male children.
A few. Right, so in a couple generations they will all be nicely inbred, and as we have seen, that works out well in the long run.
There you go, I am sure those “women” would be more than willing to give up their precious bodily fluids for the sisterhood – problem sorted.
Yes, because that too is working out really well with the likes of May, Merkel, almost the entire government of Sweden, and a pile of our bozos over on this side of the pond.
I don’t think she has really thought this through.
I think this is a wonderful idea. My ex can do there, and instead of having a major mountain range and 10-hour drive between us, we can have a fully galaxy.
And then she can have girl talk about how men stink, and about how her ex was awful….
I can hardly wait for the hijinks at “that time of the month” since I read somewhere that women in close proximity, nurses, nuns etc. tend to synchronise. Just imagine all the tears and flying crockery, and not a single man for ten light years to blame!
Readers may be tickled by the conceit that men would be infuriated and threatened by the departure from Earth of the planet’s feminists. And not, say, delighted.
Is there a Go Fund Me page?
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2014/03/elsewhere-115.html
a self-sufficient community of women so infuriate and threaten men
“CURSE THOSE DAMNED SULF-SUFFICIENT WOMEN! GRRRRRR! It makes my blood boil when women can TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES! ATTACK IMMEDIATELY!!”
LOLOLOLOLOL…and a big ol honk honk. Thank you Guardian, you’re a treasure.
“Yes, but I can’t get the bloody thing opened! Here, you try – I loosened it a bit.”
/colony disappears in one generation
In before the inevitable (in-Evita-ble?) B-Ark jokes.
“a matriarchal society without examples of male aggression”
But what about… no, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
Nevermind, missed the one at #2. A regular Jinsu of sharpness, I am.
A regular Jinsu of sharpness, I am.
I didn’t like to spoil the moment. You seemed so happy.
I read somewhere that women in close proximity, nurses, nuns etc. tend to synchronise.
It turns out that’s a myth. Get enough women in one spot with randomly distributed menses and enough of them will overlap to make it look like more than coincidence.
Just imagine all the tears and flying crockery, and not a single man for ten light years to blame!
The idea that a mere ten light years distance would be enough to prevent feminists from blaming men is just so precious!
I’m just going to leave this here, I think.
What?
It turns out that’s a myth. Get enough women in one spot with randomly distributed menses and enough of them will overlap to make it look like more than coincidence.
So, sort of like the Biorhythms fad of the sixties.
This mass migration effort would require huge amounts of resources, engineering and risky exploratory drive.
Can any point to any massive human exploration/migration project at all in human history that was driven by and accomplished by women?
Any?
Because the evil ‘male agression’* is the same force that has accomplished so much (for good or not so good) in human history.
And there are very good evolutionary reasons why males have a rather different motivational drive than females.
Research idea: Spend the day tomorrow listing all the things that women either can’t, or won’t do.
That community would be back to mud huts within the week.
“But”>https://www.returnofkings.com/32053/this-accidental-experiment-shows-the-superiority-of-patriarchy>”But it wasn’t a true matriarchy.”
Crap. Preview is still my friend.
But it wasn’t a true matriarchy.”
Isn’t there a weight limit in space capsules? It’s going to take a ling time to populate the feminist colony one Fat feminist at a time. Just saying.
Can any point to any massive human…migration project at all in human history that was driven by and accomplished by women?
Does the current invasion of Europe by the Musselmen count?
Beautiful colors, not so beautiful deformities:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/06/tsubaki-goldfish/?mc_cid=d0a73b3da7&mc_eid=d63b7b651c
It’s going to take a ling time to populate the feminist colony one Fat feminist at a time. Just saying.
In space, they’re all weightless. They might refuse to ever land.
They’ll still have mass, though. Perhaps we can use them to deflect asteroids?
Thought u all might enjoy this, I thought it was funny:
http://www.wisdomination.com/accurate-dictionary/
My favorite comment:
I want that carved above my door. Or at least printed on a t-shirt.
TDK, ‘ware dirty telephones.
((Oops… I posted this to wrong thread … let me try again :::sigh::: then hope for more coffee))
that’s before you even get to the inflammatory question of who would be eligible for such a mission under the definition of “woman”.
Ruh-roh, writer Stephanie Merritt should hope she and her scare quotes don’t come to the attention of Vivian Kane.
Thought u all might enjoy this,
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So yes.
Oops… I posted this to wrong thread…
I saw you wandering off and looking confused. I assumed you’d lost your shoes again.
The Jar Of Testicles (pronounced like Hercules) sounds like something from Roman Mythology.
It does, doesn’t it?😄
Has anyone seen my shoes?
Has anyone seen my shoes?
Oh, heck. In my under-caffeinated state, I think I may be wearing them.
Can imagine the volume of white wine they’d have to import on a weekly basis?
”… the very idea of a self-sufficient community of women …” I guess it’s possible, but I don’t know if it’s ever happened, except possibly in Stalinist Russia.
As for ”… in a matriarchal society without examples of male aggression, …”, but what about female aggression? I seem to remember a recent discussion [on this site] about bitches [female dogs] being far more aggressive than male dogs and that led to a discussion about the aggressive nature of human females, mostly to each other as nature’s way of securing the safety of the immediate family, including progeny.
The fear that even in a happy, thriving matriarchy, a male child might “grow up to be the kind of man who grabs a peaceful protester by the back of her neck” . . . wait a sec, what is there left to protest about in a happy, thriving matriarchy?
what is there left to protest about in a happy, thriving matriarchy?
How rude Maggie was when lecturing me about how I decoupled the quantum reactor, for starters! What. A. Bitch.
No, Darleen is wearing David’s shoes. Who has MY shoes? Show of feet, please.