STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Thursday, 10 May 2012

[Demeter]

58. The "Authoritarisanism" is Far More "Authoritative", and there is a difference

The women's society was below survival numbers. There is no room for error.

In such a scenario, strict attention to breeding, to the quality of the breed, to the efficiency of resource use is paramount for survival of the species and the society. Every gene in the pool was tested at least two generations before discarded.

Because all women were bound up in pregnancy for a decade or so, and all the men exiled until and unless they came to their senses, there was no slack for oopses, no "pool of idled labor" to draw upon.

These women had no luxuries...unless you consider the absence of domestic violence, addiction, and patriarchy as the luxuries they are for women.

And what did the "warriors" want? To revert to patriarchy. The women had reasoned it out and managed to give most people most of what they wanted. And it was working. Their society was increasing in size and territory and technology and health. Their rival "Fundie" neighbors were devolving in the exact opposite direction.

If we must have a dystopic future, I as a woman and a realist prefer this one.