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- From: stave@apollo.hp.com (Joel H. Stave)
- Subject: Re: Why Science Fiction?
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:23:38 GMT
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- In article <2B5DEF77.11902@news.service.uci.edu>,
- cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
- |> modelled on street gangs. I always thought this might be good . . . I
- |> would also like to pursue this very scary thread of whether men will
- |> ever be able to give birth. Given the past of humanity, I think that if
- |> this ever comes to pass, it's going to be open season on women: "Fuck
- |> you, honey! We don't even NEED you anymore!" This would be a good
- |> topic to pursue in fiction.
-
- Judging from what every woman I have talked to has said about
- pregnancy and giving birth, I somehow doubt many men are going
- to sign up for this. Speaking for myself, I am not particularly
- desirous of 9 months of discomfort ending in a day or two of
- severe cramps culiminating in something that was desrcibed to
- me as "pooping out a grapefruit".
-
- Husbands always tell their wives "Honey, if I could spare you
- this discomfort and take it on myself, I would", but they only
- say that because they know they won't have to make good on it.
-
- What I think would be more likely is that the technology
- would be developed, but the evil male-dominated medical
- establishment would hide the information and squash all the
- research, because if it ever got out they'd have to put up
- or shut up.
-
- Joel Stave
- stave@apollo.hp.com
-