For those who aren't familiar with it, FX recently announced a new direct-to-streaming series on Hulu, titled "Y: The Last Man". It's based on the 2000s-era Brian K. Vaughan-written Vertigo comic book of the same name, where an incident occurs that kills every mammal with a Y-chromosome on the planet - except for one dude named Yorick Brown, and his pet male capuchin monkey. With half the population instantly dead, you can imagine that chaos ensues, especially when you factor in that a good majority of infrastructure support jobs are handled by - you guessed it - men. (And that's not even taking into account the death of uncountable species across the world as they will no longer be able to procreate, the destruction of food supply, etc).
You can see the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EEQ5Lj-cXM
Obviously this series was written back before the huge push for inclusivity started, so its comic book iteration is not as horribly woke as it could be, but I'm just waiting for the shoe to drop on the TV version. Obviously, nature and genetics don't give two shits about your fee-fees and what you identify as, so that means if they go the full nine yards on this they're either going to have to:
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Ignore the existence of trans people entirely,
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Break the narrative and have it do something stupid like leave M-to-F trans alive but sterilize them,
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Downplay the whole event by claiming it killed "trans-women" as well, or
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Accept that M-to-F transgendered people genetically aren't women and lean into it and just show them as dead as well.
Somehow I think it's probably going to be option 2 or 3, but if it catches traction then the amount of salt this show is going to generate could season the world's popcorn for decades to come.
I saw that trailer, I was laughing so hard. Feminist porn that is.
If that actually happened the world would fall apart and would never recover. Even if there was simple tech for women to self reproduce and make new baby girls to populate society quickly and easily, a society made up completely of women will always fail.
The world was built by men and runs because of men. These women with high powered administrator jobs at corporate offices literally do nothing related to making the world operate. These positions are resource consumption only. They do not produce resources, they consume.
If Citibank or Google or whatever else company could all instantly disappear today, along with every Boss Babes career with it, nothing would impact humanity’a ability to survive. Yes the economy would take a deep hit, probably many would die for many years as we adjusted to a sudden loss of 50% of the work force. But humanity would still live. We would still have men doing the labor intensive jobs women predominantly cannot do. And even the exceptions that do, overwhelmingly perform less or have different standards. They could not produce the output equal to men necessary to propagate humanity.
But on the flip side, if all of the labor jobs performed by men disappeared, humanity would cease to exist. Even if the jobs were there, but the men weren’t, women could struggle bus it along for a while as the minute percentage of women in these fields try and teach the rest how to do things. But not enough could or would want to learn. And those that did couldn’t do enough.
Seriously. A society run entirely on emotions/feelings with logic, reason and rationality being nonexistent, could NEVER function.
This'll be it. They're gonna put a troon in there just to dare their viewers to say something. What are you gonna do, talk about biology on Reddit and Twitter? Enjoy your ban. There are five lights, bigot.
If something like this actually happened they wouldn't last a week.
Water, electricity, telecommunications, firefighting... we're irreplaceable and some deadweight female diversity hire won't solve anything (without us to do the actual work and them getting the credit).
If the opposite happened we wouldn't even feel it, except for the emotional factor obviously. Or maybe HR departments and schools would feel it but that's a win in my book.
They wouldn't even try, they'd lay down and die. There was a Dutch survival show where they made a team of women and a team of men stay in separate camps. The men had it figured out in a day: shelter built, duties assigned, everything working smoothly. The women? They ate all their food, sunbathed and played in the water, then went over to the men's camp when they got hungry (the simps naturally took them in). Feminism is the joke of the millennium.
If even that.
Some rough stats grabbed from a post on Reddit of what would be lost if men vanished suddenly;
But on the flip side, diversity and inclusion departments would still be going at full speed!
Btw thank you for the stats, nice to know.
Probably less. Unless there's a female co-pilot on board, you've got planes dropping out of the skies. Dudes behind the wheel of long-haul trucks (or just cars in general) would be running off the roads or plowing into traffic. Every one of those incidents would require fire response to keep any blazes from spreading. There's no way in hell fire and police are at a 50-50 ratio, so they'd effectively have to watch the world burn. On top of that, you're going to have power, water, sewer, and everything else going to hell in a handbasket at the same time. They'd effectively be fucked.
But hey, that's why they want equality in all jobs, right? /S
The only upside is that violent crime would be a minuscule fraction of what it is today.
Until the food runs out and the lights go dark.
Even then. Most women will meekly accept their fate and starve instead of doing whatever it takes to survive. Do you think that your average basic bitch suburban woman is capable of shooting a deer in order to eat, let alone kill another woman to take their food supply?
I think most would have an easier time with the latter than the former. People get maimed the day after Thanksgiving for far less.
Unintentionally so.
But it reminds me of a story a female reporter once wrote when she spent a week in Syria, trapped behind enemy lines with a small group of rebels trying to fight for survival.
I should have bookmarked the article, but anyway, with only a few of them huddled in the building with constant, non-stop gunfire and explosives going off, do you know what this brave and stunning female reporter did?
Did she pick up a gun and help the rebels fend off the attacks so they could make a daring escape? No.
Did she try to grab some grenades and lob them at the enemies in order to provide cover for the rebels? No.
Did she help plot out an escape and help lead the group out of the city to higher or safer ground where less shelling and mortar fire and shooting was taking place? No.
What she did, the entire time, as she admitted herself, was huddled in a corner and cried. She cried. She screamed. She covered her eyes and ears; and wrote of the experience that "war is hell, for everybody".
Had the enemy breached the building they were in, she would have died. She wouldn't have fought back, she wouldn't have bitten into an enemy's neck or gone female-Rambo. She couldn't even handle the gunfire; she admitted as much herself. And after she saw the dead bodies and people being blown to bits around her, she shut down completely.
In that regard, Elleand is right. A few women MIGHT muster some courage to hunt and kill, but majority will go through an emotional breakdown, and starve to death. They just don't have the killer instinct to fight to survive, even for the sake of themselves.
All of that feminist empowerment in movies and TV where the woman fights back or picks up a gun and shoots at the enemy is just that, a power fantasy nowhere near indicative of real women.
I imagine they won’t be too faithful to the comic book. A “trans woman” is a man. They seem to have trouble with that.
I saw the trailer for this and I'd never heard of it before. I just assumed that since it actually got funding for a series that it must have been cucked in some way, but the premise is interesting.
Has anyone here read the comics this is derived from? And if so what are your thoughts?
I've read the books, but it's been since 2008-ish when I last picked them up. The first part of the story arc kinda glosses over the fallout of the deaths and what would happen when not only infrastructure starts breaking down, but also the ramifications of needing to find a way to safely dispose of the corpses of half the world. After the initial "OHSHI- PEOPLE DED" reaction it jumps straight to the post-apocalyptic side of things, where women have carved up the countryside into their own enclaves. Yorick is discovered, and protection from the remnants of the US government is forced upon him and a geneticist who is charged with figuring out why he isn't dead and what they can do to use his genetics to try and kickstart the repopulation of the planet. I remember the books being a good read, although there were more than a few points where I rolled my eyes at the impossibility of the situation where women effectively "manned up" and tried to rebuild into their own version of a perfect society.
If you have an Amazon Prime account, the first volume of the series is available for free for a limited time under their Prime Reading feature. It's worth a look, even if only to get an overview of the content.
Alrighty, that is a hard pass then. There's a saying that if all the women on the planet disappeared, the men would die out in about twenty years. But that if all the men on the planet disappeared, the women would die out in about twenty days.
I usually point at the TV show Survivor for an example of that. I forget which country's edition of it did a "men vs women" breakdown on the initial separate islands, but it basically proved that the guys would have survived and the women were screwed. The men built shelter, set up a rotation for chore duties (hunting, gathering, fire tending, cooking, etc) based on their skills, and were generally thriving as best they could. The women basically spent their first few days burning through their supplies and lounging around doing jack shit, treating it like they were on some sort of beach vacation. The producers had to pull the "tribe member swap" bit early to get some men over onto the women's team, so they wouldn't starve to death or get killed from exposure.
There was something similar in the American show too. They didn't separate by gender (I don't remember the gimmick for that season) but there was an older lady on one of the teams who was busting her hump doing stuff around camp and during challenge. She was voted off, with the other women of the camp basically having the reasoning of "she makes us look bad" wrapped up in the idea of her being a dangerous foe during the late game. They hadn't even merged into one tribe yet. Hilariously their camp life took a hit too since she had been doing so much.
While I could get the notion of voting off someone who would be a danger in the late-game, you don't start angling for that until mid-game or right before the tribe merge (if you have the rest of your half on your side). The whole notion of getting rid of someone who is potentially useful simply because they're doing more work than the rest of the women and "making us look bad" is such a totally female mindset, where appearance is everything.
The ending was fucking horrible and felt rushed as hell. I think they told Vaughn to wrap it up, and he said "fuck it".
I never got around to reading Invincible even though it was on my list for a while. The series was not bad, so maybe I should start picking up the TPBs
There's confirmed to be a "trans man" cast in the show, played by an actual "trans man". (Source: https://archive.is/O4lAW).
Also, FX has already started with the Alphabet People word salad in their official description of the show, making sure to call the last man the "last cisgender man":
https://i.imgur.com/weST6aE.png
https://archive.is/tdZiz
So it looks like the fact that the show is still being named "Y: The Last Man" is probably going to send the Alphabet People into orbit with rage, especially since a "trans man" (actually a female) is on the show, alongside the main titular character of the "last man".
This is gonna be a fun shitshow to watch lol
I'd expect them to gloss over it and ignore it before the event but then fill the cast with a whole bunch of FtM for after and do some handwaving for explanation/reasoning.
When they put themselves in that kind of corner, they will just go out of their way to not acknowledge it or get creative with angles and only show them leaning against one wall of that corner.
Years ago this was majorly popular, or at least, judging by how I saw it displayed in bookstores it was. I considered buying it, it had cool covers, but even then I was fatigued with feminism and thought the premise was rife for the stuff. Then Brian K. Vaughan went on to do Saga (breast feeding cover) and I felt justified in not picking it up and now see him as a name to just avoid. Got me into Animal Man when I incorrectly remembered the name though, so for that I was thankful. Trailer looks meh. Don't care for that masculine Nos4A2 actress. Could turn into some Feminist icon movie, or not. Depends on how the winds blow, the comic media being so sensitive to Leftist critics. Considering our dire straits, post-apoc stuff is very popular, so it might do well.
From what I remember, a bunch of the other female characters just settled down and became lesbians by the end of it, and Y hooked up with some woman.
There is no outcome where it isn't a feminist wet dream. And you avoiding the series is pretty much the same reasons why I'm avoiding it as well.
Now why on earth would the left be angry at a male genocide fantasy?
Option 1 would be fine with me, but you know that wouldn't fly in clown world.
If I was the man, I'd want an island off to myself with a TV where I could watch the entire world and laugh to just waste away the rest of my days. It would be a shit-show beyond all belief if that actually happened. Although, I do wonder what games the women turn to when they lose the ability to sell pussy for personal gain. I guess just the normal backstabbing, cut-throat catfighting they also excel at.
I don't think anyone's going to watch it. Nobody wants to see a bunch of women on screen, acting like men, doing things that women don't do in real life. This is on the same level as having all the adults die, and then all the kids (without any education) acting like adults and pretending to be doctors, lawyers, politicians, etc and somehow making it work. It's on that 1980's level of disbelief where some entity spends billions to develop a smart car/bio enhancements so that it can be used to fight petty crime in one city.
The reality is a bit different. They've had shows where all the women left a town and the men carried on without them for months. But the reverse was never attempted. Although there was that one survivor series where they pitted the men versus the women, and the women were basically going to die, so they had to split the teams and mix them up. The most bizarre aspect was the women while running out of food, did absolutely nothing to get more, they simply lounged on the beach and kept digging into their supplies. They didn't even build a shelter.
They never exactly say what caused the plague or why Yorick and Ampersand survived. One of the major theories put forth in the book is that there is one more dude that survived, Doctor Matsumori, who was a geneticist who developed a compound that was injected into Ampersand, who was then mis-delivered to Yorick. All three were affected by the compound, which was why they survived the event.
Vaughan has been intentionally vague as to the actual cause in interviews regarding the book. He claims the answer is in there, but they never clearly stated "THIS IS THE CAUSE OF THE PLAGUE" in the book, with several potential causes being floated over the course of the series.
Yeah, it's typical of speculative plotholes where the writer has no clue where the story is going. I'm guessing the elevator pitch went something like:
BKV: Okay, here's the deal: All the men and male animals in the world DIE except for this one dude and his monkey, and all he wants to do is get reunited with his girlfriend.
Editor: Okay, but why does everyone but him and the monkey die?
BKV: I dunno, reasons, we'll figure it out later, but it's a great hook for a post-apocalyptic feminist take-over, right?
Editor: Sounds good, find an artist and run with it