One more thing science fiction had foreseen

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Man-made chemicals blamed as many more girls than boys are born in Arctic
What is funny is that last night I read a story by Italian SF writer Lino Aldani ("La costola di Eva", that is "Eve's rib"), in which he imagines a future where women take over, replicating all male patterns, in a sort of feminist Farnham's Freehold. In this story, we are told

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I misread your first paragraph as: "...which he imagines a future where women take over, rejecting all male pattern baldness...".

I'd like to say it's because I'm on cold medication but the truth is, I probably would have misread it that way regardless.:)

Thomas Berger, the author of Little Big Man, wrote a book called Monstrous Regiment, in which men and women reverse roles and take on the most negative charactertistics of each other. It's been over thirty years since I read it so I don't remember it in great detail. But I vaguely recall male secretaries struggling in high heels and short skirts and female executives in business suits bullying them. And something about men being more vulnerable because their sex organs are on the outside rather than the inside.

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something about men being more vulnerable because their sex organs are on the outside rather than the inside.

You know, that's also my theory: I mean, I think men sort of brainwashed women making them believe in their own weakness out of fear. Because even the weakest woman can knock out the strongest man just by kicking his balls. I have often wondered why so many women just keep on crying and screaming and don't really defend themselves when they are assaulted (I mean, in a one on one situation and without weapons, of course). And my conclusion is that they have been educated to that.

I also have to add another thing: of course I was being a bit radical in saying that "It seems in SF the only way for women to crush sexism is through the numbers". Your own writings don't follow this rule. And my favourite feminist utopia is the one depicted in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, where actually harmony between the sexes is reached through the denial of sexual peculiarities (bearing and raising children, first of all) and the

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You should read ginmar. She's a combat veteran of the Iraq war and she's got a lot to say that I think you would find most interesting. Personally, I think she's one of the bravest people I've ever encountered.

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Sounds most interesting. I added her to my friends. Thanks!