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.
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?