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"Y: The Last Man" reviewed on Salon.com
Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2008-07-14 14:29
Just read this. Admittedly I may be out of the loop and I am not a comic book officianado, so this is the first I have heard of this series.
I feel the reviewer is trying to walk a line here, retaining some ambiguity deliberately in his writings, perhaps to thwart criticism. He is definitely pandering to the feminist crowd on page 1 of his review, then sort of gets less so on the second. All in all though, here's the feel: "Ooo we love to think about a man-less world-- a gendercide of men, hooray! Oh things would be kind of weird at first, but after the evil influences of maleness wear off, everything'll be just fine."
Further comments? The book is found here. The author is, of course, a man.
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Have a look at this video. It meaning is fairly clear but I think it is meant more as a warning than a prediction. http://www.youtube.com/user/mooseman33
The author is a male apologist
Here's some comments from the author:
'We wondered if he thought a planet full of women could ultimately rebuild society and sustain itself once again. Vaughan was surprisingly optimistic on that front. "Yes, I do think it could. There were a lot of people early on in the first year who complained, "Wow, this is such a misogynistic book to say that, because the men died, the women can't get the electricity running all over the world and the airports up and running again." I think that's an extremely complex, extremely difficult thing to deal with. When three billion people die, I don't care what their sex was, that's an incredibly difficult thing to come back from. I will say that the world would be better off than if it were just the men left. I think that would be an even more dire situation. I think there is hope for the planet."
Just for fun, we had to ask Vaughan how he thought the series might have played out if it were called Y: The Last Woman instead? "That would have been some true Mad Max **** right there. I think the second the women died the men would have started accusing each other. "Oh, you're responsible for this," or "This is biological warfare!" It would have been a countdown till all the nuclear missiles on the planet were launched. It would have been a very unpleasant situation. Whoever that last woman was would have it much rougher than Yorick did."'
It seems the comic is really popular, it is the second biggest seller for publisher vertigo. I wonder what kind of men are buying this and do they not realise they're buying into a feminist utopia, don't they get the clear message the story is spelling out? Also this is going to be made into a film, a trilogy, so it looks like we can look forward to seeing this feminist propaganda on the big screen over the next few years. How could we get men to stop seeing a film incarnation of this story?
Y: Interesting story poisoned more and more with misandry...
I've collected the whole series and this is my perspective...
The problem with "Y: The Last Man" (Y) is that it starts off with an overly rosy view of women and a somewhat neutral view towards men. Story arc by arc, more misandry is introduced to the story. Towards the end of the series it is revealed that the whole gendercide was caused by a man researching human cloning. Once the first clone was born, nature decided that men weren't a necessary evil for reproduction anymore and so nature destroyed all the men. Yes, so men are inherently evil according to Y.
#@^# you Vaughn! (the author)
If all the men died tomorrow the what would really happen? Think of all the dirty jobs that have to be done for society to continue? Think of all the male dominated professions: engineering, construction, mining, oil production, police, government, trucking, plumbing, electricians, auto repair, surgeons, machinists, etc... (and those are all off the top of my head) Think of the majority of the practitioners of those professions being gone.
Vaughn makes the transition relatively smooth and peaceful. In reality it would be far worse.
Ultimately I feel betrayed by Y. The misandric betrayal of Y has caused me to reevaluate the entire series. Even the early issues don't seem as good any more.
Good sign
All such books appear due to only one thing: WOMEN WILL SOON LOSE THEIR MONOPOLY ON CHILD BEARING. And feminists are scared to death and are trying to defend proactively ("best defense is offence"). Of course they perfectly realize that without men they all will die in two days.
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Single men is the only social group benefited from feminism.
The larger issue
It is terrible that things have gotten to the point where people (like Maureen Dowd) speak of manless worlds. It represents serious consideration of genocide (as well as making fun of it) whether or not it is actually intended to be carried out. It is my sincere hope that several decades from now, people will look back and say, "How could those people have been so horrible? What kind of sick culture were they living in?"
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