The Munk Debates: Men's obsolescence confirmed

It's time to debate the question as to whether women are obsolete.

We're close to that stage.

There's quiet progress being made toward the womandroid (for sex). Hard to believe but consider the economics; "she" works 24/7 and is self cleaning (no STDs).

The uterine replicator (for reproduction) is taking longer to develop. That delay doesn't matter while surrogate mothers are available for hire.

When surrogate mothers get too expensive they'll be competing with the replicators. In fact, their prices will help justify the development of the replicators.

Remember the song "Casey Jones?" It's a story of somebody competing with a machine... and losing.

I don't want to see either gender become obsolete. I would much rather advocate for things to be the way nature intended with a balanced social contract between the genders which facilitates the formation of healthy families.

But if men figure out a way to gestate an embryo without a actual female womb and have a sexbot, women will in no doubt be in trouble. However it will always take a sperm and egg (ovum) to create a child. You are forgetting the sperm to ovum ratio and the law of supply and demand. And when men have children without female partners who will watch the children or fill the roles of paid domestic services? Children are expensive.

Since no one is having sex women will no longer be burdened with pregnancy and they will be able to fill higher career goals (But if women want children, I imagine they will use artificial wombs as well)

Anyway I just see a break down of families and single parent families are the least efficient, so you would then get a less efficient society in many ways. There would be less competition, less innovation, more women filling positions they are not generally qualified for, etc. But as long as men and women need to trade sperm and ovum, there will be some type of social contract between the genders.

If men become "obsolete" (whatever that truly means), what then? Unless every pregnancy involves the implantation of a female embryo, males will be the result of about half of pregnancies. Even if these males are obsolete, they are still here.

What would society do with them? I think that we should all fear the answer to that question.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/maureendowd/index.html

So, if men are obsolete, if every man in the world took a collective day off, nothing bad should happen, right?... Right?... oh wait a second...

http://www.avoiceformen.com/men/judgybitch-pray-men-never-take-a-day-off/

I find it hilarious how women sitting in a building built overwhelmingly by men, if at all by women, enjoying the heating and electricity, which is also overwhelmingly produced by men, in a school started by men, talking about how men are obsolete. Yeah, do whatever mental gymnastics it takes to convince yourself of that, honey.

BTW, the majority of people still don't agree were obsolete. The anti-male side "won" simply because they were able to convince 28% more people of their bigotry? That makes no sense mathematically.

I guess Maureen Dowd is still unable to find a man--about which she's whined publicly.

Gee, I wonder why. What could it be?

Poor Maureen.