DISQUS

Amber · 4 years ago

But what does it mean for women to be women and men to be men? If women being women means the fetishization of weakness and helplessness or a simultaneous obsession with obtaining cartoonishly large breasts and obliterating other secondary sex characteristics, count me out. Is it still possible to sign up for mitosis?

Will Wilkinson · 4 years ago

Amber, You've got a mother, right?

Amber · 4 years ago

She's no role model.

McGehee · 4 years ago

She's no role model.

I'm new here, Will. What's your policy on snap psychoanalysis of fellow commenters?

McClain · 4 years ago

McGehee: Please don't shoot the fishes.
Re: "isms" of sex....
It's an ancient taboo for a reason.
People are sensitive about that shit.
If you're gonna crack, 9 times outta 10 you'll crack along that line.
No wonder people get all weird about it and make up stupid ideologies that pretend to fix everything but actually screw things up even worse....

Jason Kuznicki · 4 years ago

It's funny, I need men to be men too.

Downto · 4 years ago

Will, I love M. Yglesias going after you for the painfully obvious truth...

The idea that homosexuality does not fall under the "life among the humans will be tough for you category" is very interesting. Even by perfectly "respectable" PC standards life is tough for gays. Let's not even mention life expectancy etc. Just leave it at feeling different, which is the great outcry of all the outwardly gay--"We are being treated as weird". Those who are not hetrosexual have got it tough whether one thinks homoesexuality is wrong or not. Yglesias powers right past the points. Keep it up Will.

NuSapiens · 4 years ago

Well stated.

Of course, the advancement of medical science might make sexual reproduction obsolete for the upper classes of the future. Instead of wasting huge amounts of time, money, and energy (or sacrificing careers) raising children, yuppies (whether single, in couples, or in groups - gay or straight) might pay Third World women to raise their kids in tropical paradises. With the Internet and a little faith in genetic determinism, the kids will grow up just fine (or better) than they would cramped in a NYC highrise, then go to school for higher education and repeat the reproductive cycle. The surrogate mothers would be rich by local standards, the biological parents would be free to pursue their lives and careers, and everyone would be happy.

Gay male couples (each able to attain higher male levels of income and power) would be eminently suited for such a reproductive strategy.

Downto · 4 years ago

Kids need direct personal love from people who directly and personally love them. Nannies can only help to a point. The yuppies would have to do a lot--I mean a lot--of flying to have "their" kids turn out okay. (And yes I realize that in part you were being tongue in cheek.)