And its back to school and boy bashing:

So one day (today), my exams finished themselves up and suddenly, I had a lot of spare time. So decided to actually take up an argument I remember having with *eyyyewww… boyzz*, when we were itty bitty. Lets start with the story that sowed this seed of thought into my good friend, the SewageMessiah's brain.

Consider, if we turned around Brian K. Vaughn's terrible (its terrible! What if all the men in my life disappeared? I would so miss both of them) story and all the women in the world vanished all of a sudden. Take note, in a matter of a mere half century, women have successfully permeated every field previously dominated by men and are established well enough to know the "internal workings of the system". But surprisingly, men still haven’t gotten the hang of "housework" and "looking after themselves" in all these past millennia. As a result, the remaining half of the human race would rapidly contract infectious diseases perpetuated by a general lack of hygiene. Without mothers, sisters, nuns or nurses to look after them, the sick would be incurable in spite of advanced medical technology. And men being the selfish bastards that they are would try to save themselves by quarantining the sick and letting them die. Having a strong mathematical sense and a wonderful mastery of numbers, they would come up with great statistical models on how to segregate different kinds of sick people to minimize contagion. But of course considering the verifiable fact that "men are pigs", that every man would contract one disease or the other would become imminent. Adding to this, the exponential increase of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome cases, due to spiraling rates of homosexuality in a womanless world, the whole world would eventually be divided into one country per ailment and everyone would eventually rot in their own private plague quarters. Hence, the second mass extinction of a species in the history of the planet earth, with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus emerging as the climax species.

Now, mounting an objective standpoint:

RELIGION:

Can't argue with the Sewage Messiah about this one. Religion would perish without men to keep up all the brahuahua. And so would a whole ideological state apparatus designed to seal the mind of the layperson (notice I said "person"?) off the natural human tendency to question the norm and pursue the higher truth. Good riddance.

SCIENCE:

I will pull my argument out of His own gracious words,

"for centuries women were barred entry to the sciences, therefore it will take a few generations before women reach the same level of scientific aptitude as men". As for direction and expertise, women are already working on that, what with statistics indicating that more and more women are opting to be engineers and scientists, including, surprise surprise, geneticists (yours truly) and astronauts (remember Chawla? But of course, you know there've been many more space-women before and since). So we're already preparing for a possible "man-ocide" situation.

Its true, if all the men vanished, the most missed would be the handymen. But wait! We'd still have the greatest scientific and technological legacy men ever left behind- The User Manual. Women will learn how to fix a bulb eventually. Of course, its not in our nature to do so, but hey, neither was domestic work and we managed to do that just fine for a really long time because of a real situation, similar to the would-be situation of "no-man"...if we don't do it, nobody will.

THE ARTS:

Women couldn't paint because they were cooking.

Women couldn't compose music because they were cooking.

Women couldn't cook because they were cooking?

Well yes. All the poor-to-middle class women of the world have been cooking for a really long time. And there's more.

But before that, what about the bourgeoisie women across the world? Now that's just absurd. They certainly weren't cooking.

So lets think about the fine English Ladies who sat in fine houses adorned with fine Van Gogh works of art. Now think about bejeweled Indian princesses in their Hawa Mahals. Or the Arabian chieftain's veiled daughter far removed from the reach of the evil eye. Or say, the young French women who often posed for these great works of art. What were these lazy women doing, wasting their time, giving themselves airs, not getting an education? WOAH! Did I say EDUCATION? Did I? Did I? O my god! What do the poor women, the middle class women and the rich aristocratic women have in common by shared deprivation? An Education! So the poor and middle class women were taught to cook and look after babies, while the aristocratic women of the world were taught rubbish things like etiquette, ceramic painting and bricolage. Of course, they were also taught how to be an ideal wife and mother.

SEX: I don't think women would turn to beasts. But this part is mostly right.

I'm tired now. All this angsty feminist ranting is exhausting. I really have no comments on the next ice age.

If you wanna know what a world without women would be like, there are other places to look toward. Like a prison, for instance. Monasteries also. Generally, sweeping generalizations are my pet peeve.