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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 12:38 PM Oct 2015

"No Men beyond this Point" - There will be tears.

http://deadline.com/2015/10/no-men-beyond-this-point-samuel-goldwyn-release-date-mark-sawers-1201567421/

The sci-fi-satire "No Men beyond this Point" will be turned into a movie in 2016. The plot:
Men are no longer needed for women to get pregnant and women no longer give birth to male babies. The male gender is at the verge of extinction.

Remember how MRAs freaked out that "Mad Max" had a female lead? Imagine their reaction to a world ruled by women, with policies that actually discriminate against men and threaten their very existence.
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"No Men beyond this Point" - There will be tears. (Original Post) DetlefK Oct 2015 OP
Kind of like the latest Halle Berry series Extant... cascadiance Oct 2015 #1
Death by Snu Snu packman Oct 2015 #2
The mind is willing but the flesh is sore! DetlefK Oct 2015 #5
Its all fun and games until no men are around to kill a spider. Travis_0004 Oct 2015 #3
run by sarah palin, snarli failorina, kelly iyote, ann coulter etc? good luck with that saturnsring Oct 2015 #4
There will always be straight women who want men. SaveTheMackerel Feb 2016 #6
This is not a new concept. qwlauren35 Feb 2016 #7
There have been quite a few novels and short stories of all-women societies Gormy Cuss Mar 2016 #8
 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
1. Kind of like the latest Halle Berry series Extant...
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 12:59 PM
Oct 2015

... which projected perhaps either a growing group of self-creating robots or alien human hybrids flushing all humans out of existence, not just men or women of the human race. If we let any entity get too powerful, then they will kill off this planet. Even we as humans disregarding all of the other species and balance of nature in the top 1%'s quest for profits, etc. threatens the rest of earth in the same way too!

 

SaveTheMackerel

(37 posts)
6. There will always be straight women who want men.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 11:59 PM
Feb 2016

Unless males are aborted (possible), there will still be 51% at birth.

I suspect a world with women in control is possible, but I doubt the males would be killed off, given their usefulness in other ways besides sex. The Amazon tribe did just that, but even they needed to kidnap males from other tribes to replenish their numbers.

qwlauren35

(6,108 posts)
7. This is not a new concept.
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 02:15 AM
Feb 2016

Sheri Tepper did "The Gate to Women's Country" and men were excluded from civilized society, unless they came crawling naked and begging to be let in, while outside of the walls, men acted like warring barbarians.

There is some other book I remember where this happened as well, so I would bet that this movie is based on a book. I just can't think of it.

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
8. There have been quite a few novels and short stories of all-women societies
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:15 PM
Mar 2016

Joanna Russ' "When It Changed" (short story) was the first one I read.

List of some others :
http://feministsf.org/bibs/womenonlyworld.html

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