'm going to wildly tangent here, 'cause that's what I do. :)
Women have one pretty big advantage over men in that, in a slightly more technologically developed society than ours, men are not needed to perpetuate the species. Given cloning, or the fusing of ova (something like that), males just aren't needed for reproduction and that's not going to require all that much more tech than we have. Artificial wombs, on the other hand, will take rather more tech and might not be all that desirable even then. Under such circumstances, we males aren't needed for much more than recreation and opening pickle jars, and maybe not even for that.
Now, I'm not sure how much this has been dealt with in SF; the one example I can think of is "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon). In that story, some male astronauts find themselves in a future where there are only women; they proceed to act like colossal jackasses to (I think) an unrealistic degree.
The anime Geneshaft has a more benign version of the story in the episode "Hotline from the Past" in which while the astronauts still misbehave they are nowhere near as obnoxious as in the original Tipree story; the "Geneshaft" future there area also still men although in far fewer numbers than women. Oddly, while almost every other story in the series has a title that is a variation on a title of a famed written SF story (there is even a reference to another Tiptree story, "The Women Men Don't See"; the episode is "The Men Women Don't See") this one doesn't do a variation on the obvious inspiration, although to be sure it's possible the original story had a different title in Japan. We'll probably be doing an LJ post on "Geneshaft" and other anime I've watched recently if I'm feeling up to it (was out sick today).
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Women have one pretty big advantage over men in that, in a slightly more technologically developed society than ours, men are not needed to perpetuate the species. Given cloning, or the fusing of ova (something like that), males just aren't needed for reproduction and that's not going to require all that much more tech than we have. Artificial wombs, on the other hand, will take rather more tech and might not be all that desirable even then. Under such circumstances, we males aren't needed for much more than recreation and opening pickle jars, and maybe not even for that.
Now, I'm not sure how much this has been dealt with in SF; the one example I can think of is "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon). In that story, some male astronauts find themselves in a future where there are only women; they proceed to act like colossal jackasses to (I think) an unrealistic degree.
The anime Geneshaft has a more benign version of the story in the episode "Hotline from the Past" in which while the astronauts still misbehave they are nowhere near as obnoxious as in the original Tipree story; the "Geneshaft" future there area also still men although in far fewer numbers than women. Oddly, while almost every other story in the series has a title that is a variation on a title of a famed written SF story (there is even a reference to another Tiptree story, "The Women Men Don't See"; the episode is "The Men Women Don't See") this one doesn't do a variation on the obvious inspiration, although to be sure it's possible the original story had a different title in Japan. We'll probably be doing an LJ post on "Geneshaft" and other anime I've watched recently if I'm feeling up to it (was out sick today).