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[Gamerlord]

Look, in a world where 50 shades of grey is actually popular, I'm not going to be too disgruntled when lesbians dream of a world where it is safe to hit on another girl and assume her sexuality matches their own gender for once.

If anybody actually, truly takes it as any more than a kind of porn... Well they have issues.

Problem is, some feminists see it as an utopia to work towards.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Look, in a world where 50 shades of grey is actually popular, I'm not going to be too disgruntled when lesbians dream of a world where it is safe to hit on another girl and assume her sexuality matches their own gender for once.

If anybody actually, truly takes it as any more than a kind of porn... Well they have issues.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

[Frumple]

Problem is, some feminists see it as an utopia to work towards.

The actual word you're looking for is "misandrist", not feminist.

Look, in a world where 50 shades of grey is actually popular, I'm not going to be too disgruntled when lesbians dream of a world where it is safe to hit on another girl and assume her sexuality matches their own gender for once.

Haha, you assume it's lesbians writing stuff that's basically no!man land.

Well, there probably are some, sure, but there's a non-negligible amount of dudes (and hetero/bi women, I suppose) that get off on that sort of thing. Or find it an interesting scenario to contemplate. Hell, there's at least one anime that starts off with the premise of gender separated planets at war with each other for generations.

... some day I might actually watch it.

[Solifuge]

I'm not saying that because I'm a sexist, but because that was what I was taught in my biology class =[

But if it's wrong, then it's wrong.

HOLD THE PHONE GUYS. ITS WIKI TIME.

Synopsis:

The Y Chromosomes and X Chromosomes split off from a common Chromosomal Predecessor our distant ancestors had, and the X and Y have continued to diverge due to the same kind of pressures that drive Speciation. X and Y can't recombine like other genes, or the offspring would get all screwy and wouldn't survive, so Y Chromosomes evolved to not be able to recombine with X Chromosomes... and since only 1 Y tends to exist per viable male, Y Chromosomes can't benefit from natural selection the same way the 2 X Chromosomes can in women.

Unlike the X Chromosome, there are no vital genes on the Y Chromosome. Y Chromosomes also mutate way faster than any other genes in the body due to how one sperm cell (the only place you find Y Chromosomes in most viable adult humans) divides repeatedly, accumulating mutations with each division. That, and the testes are not in as stable and protected an environment as ovaries, which exposes them to even more mutation.

Because Y Chromosomes tend to accumulate mutations, and are unable to recombine as X Chromosomes are, they are unable to benefit from the "Natural Selection" that usually occurs in genes. This has caused Y Chromosomes to accumulate junk and harmful DNA, and "degrade" with each generation. In several mammals with short reproductive cycles, this has led to the extinction of the Y Chromosome already.

However, mammals losing their ancestral Y Chromosomes does not mean the extinction of the Male Mammal. In animals where the Y Chromosome has already disappeared, the "Maleness" genes have just migrated to other genes, and species have evolved new ways of determining sex. Humans are estimated to lose our Y Chromosomes entirely, and evolve some new method of Sex Determination, around 14 Million years from now.

[Gamerlord]

14 million years? Hell, we'll have killed ourselves off LONG before then.

[Max White]

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Hey, I'm not saying there aren't femina- feminists who would advocate the culling of the 'male race' (See Vector, I avoided that word you dislike), just that I'm hesitant to jump straight to the idea that we are looking at their propaganda. Ok, so maybe it is, that should be assessed on a case by case basis. I'm just going to say it is ok for homosexual women to have their fantasy world, as much as anybody else, as long as they don't go full Valerie Solanas and assume it would actually work as anything more than a sex fantasy.

[SalmonGod]

14 million years? Hell, we'll have killed ourselves off LONG before then.

Or directly messing around with genetics will become so simple and commonplace that whatever evolutionary course we're on now will be made completely irrelevant.  And we'll all be immortal.  And our fashion will be ridiculous.

[Xantalos]

14 million years? Hell, we'll have killed ourselves off LONG before then.

Or directly messing around with genetics will become so simple and commonplace that whatever evolutionary course we're on now will be made completely irrelevant.  And we'll all be immortal.  And our fashion will be ridiculous.

You'll be wanting to read The Culture.

[Gamerlord]

14 million years? Hell, we'll have killed ourselves off LONG before then.

Or directly messing around with genetics will become so simple and commonplace that whatever evolutionary course we're on now will be made completely irrelevant.  And we'll all be immortal.  And our fashion will be ridiculous.

You'll be wanting to read The Culture.

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[Scelly9]

Scifi series by Iain M Banks. It's fucking good.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Ahhhhh. The one day I come to this thread, and I'm not depressed. That makes me happy. I'm in the wrong thread.

[Skyrunner]

First semester grades are out. It's like someone ran a filter over my midterm results that said UNLESS grade==4, grade=grade-1.
That's out of 1-9, where 1 is excellent and 9 is you should die.

[da_nang]

First semester grades are out. It's like someone ran a filter over my midterm results that said UNLESS grade==4, grade=grade-1.
That's out of 1-9, where 1 is excellent and 9 is you should die.

Wouldn't that bring it into the negatives and overflow for grades 1-3?


My sad: Avatar, wherefore hath thou gone?

[Max White]

First semester grades are out. It's like someone ran a filter over my midterm results that said UNLESS grade==4, grade=grade-1.
That's out of 1-9, where 1 is excellent and 9 is you should die.

So the worst you got was four out of nine? Well that isn't so bad. Above average across the board, assuming these are scaled to rank. Did you know the majority of people are below average? You should be pretty happy!

[Gamerlord]

I failed one of my classes for first semester. Bloody microeconomics.