Are men on the road to extinction?!?

Question

I read this in an article the other day that due to scientific experiments that are taking place, soon they might be able to create only a X'X chromozone (females) as suppose to an X'Y chromozone (men) and that after a while the X'Y Male chromozone will no longer be able to be reproduced.

This is a bit nuts to be, I highly doubt it. A world full of women, would be an ABSOLUTE nightmare to me, and I think to most men, (unless you have a super high s*x drive)

(No offence ladies)

What are your thoughts on this?

Answer 1

Suppose, I take it you mean opposed.

You're talking pseudo-science here.

Even if you can artificially create one s*x, the other isn't just going to spontaneously drop dead.

Answer 2

My Bio teacher was talking about this. He said that every million years or so the y chromosome gets shorter, but I doubt that the y will completely disappear.

Answer 3

a world full of women? they'd better get those rubber ***** ready...:-)

kidding aside, it's gonna be crazy if that happens...although i am a woman, i must admit, we need men in this world...not just for s*x, but because there are just things that women can't do...

Answer 4

A world full of women would be a nightmare to me too.  What about OUR s*x drive?  It sounds like some radical too some news story and wound it up like a top.

Answer 5

i think we need both men AND women equally, and i seriously question the legitimacy of this article.

however...f*ck regina george

Answer 6

I wish I could laugh this off but some very prominent feminists have been talking about this for years e.g. Prof Ann Oakley: "Men are the enemies of women. ...Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane" - (Taking It Like a Woman, 'A French Letter', 1984).  

It has become an ordinary topic of conversation to say that men are a dead end in evolutionary terms http://iblognews.wordpress.com/2008/01/0...

And that men are no longer necessary except as sperm donors http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment...

You can see how prejudiced this is if you replace the word 'men' with 'Blacks' or 'Jews'? But that just shows how cold hearted some people have become towards men.

Answer 7

Where did you read this article? I'd like to see some serious scientific backing for such a radical claim.

Answer 8

The research you're referring to shows that the Y chromosome in human males and males of other species has been carrying less genetic information over time. The same research suggests that it would take 10 million years for the Y chromosome in human males to completely diminish to the point where male humans would cease to exist.

    One thing I have noticed is the prevalence of low testosterone males in the general population. They tend to be extremely thin and frail in appearance. This could be indicative of a weakening of the Y chromosome.

Answer 9

woohoo! I'ld LIKE it. but then again I wouldn't be here, would I?

Answer 10

This does not make any sense.  What is the purpose of such an endeavor?  It reminds me of the days that some idiot proposed we could freeze sperm and do away with men.  I believe in equal rights, but that goes for both sexes, and while we could speculate on an all female world, truth is, that is not realistic.

Answer 11

what are you worried about? do you really think there would be peace on earth would just women alone?? look at all the stories about how women and girl violence is RISING. ask any prison guard they will tell you the WOMEN are WORSE. without men to blame everything on trust me, in a very short time they would be at each other's throats.

at least, as jefff foxworthy says " men die first because we want to". let it go..

Answer 12

My thoughts?  Not gonna happen!

I can't address the article without a link, but I can say that there have been studies to determine the contribution of each parental genome to embryo development.  There are actually studies that used two paternal genomes as well (though probably not a YY combination).  

Gynogenones have two maternal genomes and androgenones have two paternal genomes.  In mice, most die at or before the blastocyst stage.

The result is that you pretty much need the contribution of both for normal development.  A popular theory for why is that you have this battle of genomes - the paternal genome is growth promoting, while the maternal genome is growth limiting.  Without the contribution of both, it's thought that the offspring would be either too big or too small.

Answer 13

*chromosome

That's theoretically interesting, but I don't really understand what the point would be. I wouldn't worry about it too much, as it will never happen, if only because no one is going to want to fund it. Also because, you know, most women aren't lesbians and we do get horny sometimes. ;-)

As flippant as I'm being, I'd be out there protesting if this actually looked like it was making headway. But it won't.

Answer 14

And then feminists claim that they don't hate men. Oh please...

Answer 15

OH...I know what your talking about (stuff like this best to post a link)

Scientist have figured out a way to combine two female eggs...and create a child...but this only produces female children.

This does not mean that the male s*x is endangered.

Answer 16

Ugh, that'd be awful! No men at all? I don't believe a word of it, but the thought of world of just catty women is sickening!

Answer 17

I really like men, my dad is one and so are my sons.  I think it will be okay as long as we remember to make babies the normal way in addition to in a laboratory.