And another thing

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Why is it that, in science fiction, when someone regretfully considers doing away with an entire gender - for the good of the species and/or the world, of course - it’s always the males? Where are the stories that propose getting rid of women (and all the problems they cause) and carrying on the race of Man through wholly artificial means? And why do I suspect that such a story would be immediately branded as hate speech?

(I ran across yet another example of the former yesterday, and as a non-knuckle-dragging-wife-beating member of the male gender, it bothers me a little to think that there’s a segment of the population which considers me the cause of most of history’s ills and entirely dispensable.)

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[tarzxf.livejournal.com]

Genetics is why: XX is easiest to make from XX and XX ;)

Because...

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1) Males HAVE been, historically, in power, therefore knocking them down is the old "underdog winning" meme.
2) Biologically, it's easy to reproduce a purely female population; much harder to do purely male.
3) Males do have more tendencies for violence, etc., making it easy to fingerpoint.
4) Male writers mostly like women, and can't imagine wanting to do away with them (enslave them, mind-control them, yes, but just wipe them out and be left with ... OTHER MEN? Ewww.). Female writers tend to be less fixated on sex, and therefore have less concern about eliminating the other sex.

I find that theme just as annoying as you do, by the way.

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

Have you read Lois Bujold's "Ethon of Athos?" It's whole planet of men only.

[kireishojo.livejournal.com]

i was about to suggest this....

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

There's also another story, from sometime in the 60's, where a scout finds a planet where all the women have died. It's takes a rather non-pc tone towards the survivors and their "degeneration" into buggery and cross dressing, and finding means of non female reproduction. (IIRC, it was a woman scientist who figured out how to safely store eggs and force them to split before she died).

And yes, it annoys the hell out of me.