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To: Lane3 who wrote (143218)	10/16/2005 11:09:10 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794157

Would they study more or less math? Too bad you can't read David Brooks in the NY Times for free anymore. In the NY Times this morning, David Brooks writes in "Mind over Muscle": 1. At one time this was a man's world. 2. In the information age, education is the gateway to success. 3. Women are better students. 4. Girls outperform boys from the first day of school. 5. Until 1985 male college graduates outnumber women. 6. This year for every 100 male college graduates, there are 133 female college graduates. As for black men, for every 100 graduates, there are 200 female graduates. 7. "For 30 years, attention has focused on feminine equality. During that time honest discussion of innate differences has been stifled (ask Larry Summers). It's time to look at the other half."

To: Lane3 who wrote (143218)	10/16/2005 12:38:23 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794157

Maybe. Probably at first Females are just as prone to aggression as men. Men might be more violent, but that's probably because it is more socially acceptable for a man to be violent. Competition and aggression might actually be worse in an all-female society, since human females are much like other primate females - they establish pecking orders of status, but don't bond like males. I think it would be the most vicious society ever conceived. Derek

To: Lane3 who wrote (143218)	10/17/2005 1:24:26 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 794157

Read Philip Wylie's "The Disappearance"....(If you are lucky enough to find a first edition, keep it...It's worth LOTS of money!) google.com "One of the most harrowing chronicles of disaster that our age of anxiety has produced."—New York Times Book Review. "The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of February at four minutes and fifty-two seconds past four o'clock, Eastern Standard Time. The event occurred universally at the same instant, without regard to time belts, and was followed by such phenomena as might be expected after happenings of that nature." On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes as men vanish from women and women from men. After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in very different ways for men and women, boys and girls. An explosion of violence sweeps one world that still operates technologically; social stability and peace in the other are offset by famine and a widespread breakdown in machinery and science. And as we learn from the fascinating parallel stories of a brilliant couple, Bill and Paula Gaunt, the foundations of relationships, love, and sex are scrutinized, tested, and sometimes redefined in both worlds. The radically divergent trajectories of the gendered histories reveal stark truths about the rigidly defined expectations placed on men and women and their sexual relationships and make clear how much society depends on interconnection between the sexes. Written over a half century ago yet brimming with insight and unsettling in its relevance today, The Disappearance is a masterpiece of modern speculative fiction. Philip Wylie (1902–71) is the author of Gladiator and the coauthor of When Worlds Collide, both available in Bison Books editions. Acclaimed science-fiction writer Robert Silverberg is the recipient of many awards, including the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and the Grand Master designation from the Science Fiction Writers of America, the highest science-fiction honor available. He is the author of Lord Valentine’s Castle.