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 Ouze wrote:
The person who was interviewed for this is quite possibly the most successful troll in recent Dakka history.

If only that were true, this is a powerless angst ridden single mother from Southern states America with mental health issues of a yet undefined nature, the only people in danger are herself, her kid and anyone close enough on the day they tips over the edge, which may or may not happen. There are plenty of people just as crazy with power. Robert Mugabe comes to mind.


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 Sigvatr wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
I feel sorry for her kid if she actually has one.

if male...his mother despises him.
If female...she'll be raised to despise 50% of the human race.

Someone should get her real name and inform child care :/

This was mentioned, and yes she is the mother of a three year old child..

Funnily enough, if the child is boy you might be able to break through some red mist by asking her if she would want to see her son castrated. Chances are she wont want that, mothers love et al, and it might get through to her. If she does then press the little red panic button and 'ask' if she would like to take a ride in a police car and go talk to some nice doctors so she will feel better.

 Orlanth wrote:

 Ouze wrote:
The person who was interviewed for this is quite possibly the most successful troll in recent Dakka history.

If only that were true, this is a powerless angst ridden single mother from Southern states America with mental health issues of a yet undefined nature, the only people in danger are herself, her kid and anyone close enough on the day they tips over the edge, which may or may not happen. There are plenty of people just as crazy with power. Robert Mugabe comes to mind.

The sad thing is that there really are crazy lunatics like this in the world.

Skilled Trolls are indistinguishable to whatever they are parodying.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Orlanth wrote:

 Ouze wrote:
The person who was interviewed for this is quite possibly the most successful troll in recent Dakka history.

If only that were true, this is a powerless angst ridden single mother from Southern states America with mental health issues of a yet undefined nature, the only people in danger are herself, her kid and anyone close enough on the day they tips over the edge, which may or may not happen. There are plenty of people just as crazy with power. Robert Mugabe comes to mind.

The sad thing is that there really are crazy lunatics like this in the world.

Skilled Trolls are indistinguishable to whatever they are parodying.

I get what you mean now. I cant tell if this is all a joke, if it is its a pretty sick joke and she deserves sanction as if it were real.
It would also be a cry wolf story. If she gets her child taken away on a risk assessment and turns around and says 'I was only trolling for lulz can I have my child back' I would have zero sympathies.

If policies like this are ever implemented, it'll bring about human extinction.

Castrating 90% of the male population and limiting the number of breeding males to just 10% of the current population would create one hell of a genetic bottleneck.

Women probably wouldn't like this brave New world very much if they all suffer from genetic diseases because they all descend from a handful of men.

I assume that we'll have to have quotas for which races are killed too, we wouldn't want this entire revolutionary idea to be considered racist

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
I assume that we'll have to have quotas for which races are killed too, we wouldn't want this entire revolutionary idea to be considered racist

Naturally White people would be the exception...because apparently racism doesn't apply to Caucasians.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
If policies like this are ever implemented, it'll bring about human extinction.

Castrating 90% of the male population and limiting the number of breeding males to just 10% of the current population would create one hell of a genetic bottleneck.

Women probably wouldn't like this brave New world very much if they all suffer from genetic diseases because they all descend from a handful of men.

Lets take a scientific point of view, so I am not going waste time in hypothesizing Femitheists society, and need another scenario.
For example in the aftermath of say a fast acting fatal testicular virus that wipes out 90% of the worlds men, but due to its target has no effect on women.
In such cases it is entirely plausible that humanity will survive and the genetic bottleneck need not be an issue due to modern communication and fertilisation technology.

Surviving men would have to contribute to a sperm bank (under either scenario) and this can be accessed globally. Every surviving contributing male will pass along genes to nineteen mothers on average, assuming full fertility is offered as a right. Ideally recipient females not be in the same community and ideally the sperm should be passed internationally.
Even if male all fetuses die in the womb due to the virus for several generations, before the testicular plague finally disappears, sperm banks can supply enough sperm from the quote of men surviving the first outbreak to last several generations, and even when by that time each sperm donor has several hundred daughters over several generations the chance of cross breeding would be very low and can also be screened against.

This policy is even implementable if the plague wipes out all men and only very few, say one million men globally, get to donate to sperm banks before they are infected and pass away. A seed population (sic) of one million men amongst up to four billion women would mean four thousand daughters per generation of the sperm donation used per donor male. This sounds a lot but due to the nature of sperm even a relatively small supply from a healthy adult male could last for generations if care is taken not to waste the resource.
This assumes that we are capable or it is even desirable to provide one child per female survivor, which is likely untrue due to medical costs and access. Also assuming each generation of women is properly registered during fertilization you could have practically unlimited generations (there haven't even been one million generations of humans) and, sperm supply allowing, you could have each descendant have a different donor father for as many generations.

Scientifically a maleless society is possible, it wont even require a concentration camp with remnant males in it, though Femitheist hasn't worked that out yet, perhaps science is not her strong suit.

Outlandish or not this scenario has real scientific merit also, one of the more plausible options for space colonisation is to choose entirely female crews, human and animal, with the male population preserved as frozen bottles of sperm samples. This could mean that you could take twice as many females on the journey and a very broad selection of male genetic samples in a very small space giving a far more diverse genetic base at the destination. Even if this route is not chosen for human crews it would make a lot of sense for all large animals on the colony ship to be bred this way.

Gotta say Orlanth, I don't think that's how Captain Kirk intended for things to be done

If we get FTL technology we wont need to go to such extremes to colonise the galaxy.

Anyway, veering us back on topic. -
This girl is a double helping of crazy.

 Orlanth wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
If policies like this are ever implemented, it'll bring about human extinction.

Castrating 90% of the male population and limiting the number of breeding males to just 10% of the current population would create one hell of a genetic bottleneck.

Women probably wouldn't like this brave New world very much if they all suffer from genetic diseases because they all descend from a handful of men.

Lets take a scientific point of view, so I am not going waste time in hypothesizing Femitheists society, and need another scenario.
For example in the aftermath of say a fast acting fatal testicular virus that wipes out 90% of the worlds men, but due to its target has no effect on women.
In such cases it is entirely plausible that humanity will survive and the genetic bottleneck need not be an issue due to modern communication and fertilisation technology.

Surviving men would have to contribute to a sperm bank (under either scenario) and this can be accessed globally. [...]

Which would still be a genetic bottle neck as you'd be drawing sperm from a male gene pool 10% of the size of the current male population.

I think Orlanth's point was that if something happened and we only had 10% of the male population left, then we could take steps to significantly reduce the genetic bottlenecking.

A genetic bottleneck isn't really the end of the human species.

 Krellnus wrote:
I think Orlanth's point was that if something happened and we only had 10% of the male population left, then we could take steps to significantly reduce the genetic bottlenecking.

Correct. Only that we will not significantly reduce, we will eliminate the bottleneck from a health point of view with adequate global dispensation of stores sperm samples. As this would be a survival issue, and not to be omitted one run by women, it would likely get done.
10% of men remaining is not a bottleneck really, it will be noticable as a pinch in the genepool but genetic diversity would still be apparent there ought to be no inbreeding issues if administered properly.

 LordofHats wrote:
A genetic bottleneck isn't really the end of the human species.

No it isnt, and the reason for this is because it has already happened. The Toba supervolcano caused a real bottleneck, reducing the human race down to IIRC 500 breeding pairs about 75k years ago. We are still here, and later diversified into the human race we see today. Femitheist's calamity, or the testicular plague scenario isn't remotely as devastating and we have better technology than sharp rocks nowadays..

How does she even hope to implement this?

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
How does she even hope to implement this?

The same way we plan to keep those skimpy outfits on our video game women.

Wishful thinking

You know, I had a pretty good view on humanity this week. Then I saw this woman and her stupendously idiotic ideas.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
You know, I had a pretty good view on humanity this week. Then I saw this woman and her stupendously idiotic ideas.

Dakkadakka; When you're feeling good about the world, we bring you back down

 LordofHats wrote:
The same way we plan to keep those skimpy outfits on our video game women.

Wishful thinking

I thought you meant modding

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
The same way we plan to keep those skimpy outfits on our video game women.

Wishful thinking

I thought you meant modding

The two are mutually exclusive?

Basically, she wants us to live like an ant colony.

 Mr Nobody wrote:
Basically, she wants us to live like an ant colony.

That would involve one female, a coterie of males and the rest a horde of sterile drones.

 Orlanth wrote:

 Mr Nobody wrote:
Basically, she wants us to live like an ant colony.

That would involve one female, a coterie of males and the rest a horde of sterile drones.

Well if you're gonna live like that lets at least be cyborgs!

 Orlanth wrote:

 Mr Nobody wrote:
Basically, she wants us to live like an ant colony.

That would involve one female, a coterie of males and the rest a horde of sterile drones.

but aren't the drones all female?

 Mr Nobody wrote:

 Orlanth wrote:

 Mr Nobody wrote:
Basically, she wants us to live like an ant colony.

That would involve one female, a coterie of males and the rest a horde of sterile drones.

but aren't the drones all female?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplodiploid_sex-determination_system

I think some of us are already taking her way too seriously.

Further research into designer babies will be necessary: [...] development of dual-female progeny (babies created from two mothers),

In theory if that was achieved you might as well "get rid of" all men.

I finally know where the "feminazi" term comes from, i tought it was stupid but it seems to apply here, the author wants to wipe out not just a religion or a race but a gender (Well not "wipe out" as such, but you know what i mean.) and no amount of words changes that.

On a less serious note, i would not mind a reversal of roles or a situation where there is a lot more women than men, dating would no longer be a problem, and double standards would now benefit men.

 Hordini wrote:
I think some of us are already taking her way too seriously.

You probably read a Modest Proposal and immediately told everyone "calm down guys he's be sarcastic."

Just go and suck the fun out of it

 LordofHats wrote:

 Hordini wrote:
I think some of us are already taking her way too seriously.

You probably read a Modest Proposal and immediately told everyone "calm down guys he's be sarcastic."

Just go and suck the fun out of it

Sorry, how inconsiderate of me!

By all means, proceed!

Tis also kinda reminds me of a movie made about 40 years ago in my country, "sexmission", it was somewhat funny but very stupid, it had two protagonists frozen cryogenicaly and when they woke up they found themselves in a society dominated by women who got rid of all men as there was no longer a need for them.

 Orlanth wrote:

In fairness a global minimum wage would definitely be a good idea, a good thing, and is technically achievable, but.....

In what world is a global minimum wage technically achievable? Setting aside the enforcement problem, how do you set a global minimum wage such that it is significant without overburdening any given economy?