So, it seems that women may soon be able to produce their own sperm. What wonderful news! Scientists at a UK university have produced sperm from embryonic stem cells, they expect soon to do the same from skin cells, and they raise the possibility that women may be able to provide sperm. In that event two women could have their own biological child, obviating the need of such couples now to make a grudging acknowledgement of men by having sperm syringed into place. The fact that their biological child would always be a daughter is wonderfully neat, given that males will be not only undesirable but obsolete.
We are the architects of our own demise, and as I point out in my column in The Herald today we've been working hard at it ever since we gave them the vote in the 1800s. We've given them, for example, most of the marital money and we've given up conjugal rights. We not only share our workplaces with them these days, we've given them the right to have us sacked for anything deemed by them to be inappropriate. We always laugh at their dirty jokes and we walk if they don't laugh at ours. We reduce the contribution of maths and science to the TER so women can undertake degrees that require advanced skills in maths and science. We have advanced them to dominance in so many ways.
But would the demise of the male be regrettable? I happen to think, sincerely, that women are intrinsically better human beings than men, so a world without men might not be such a bad place. Might not castration as a condition of freedom for the last generation of males be a relief for everyone?