Why There Will Always Be A Need For Men

BBC ^ | 4-1-2004 | Professor Steve Jones

[So Cal Rocket]

Someone has to take the garbage cans out to the curb.

[netmilsmom]

Babies need daddies, not sperm donors.

(actually, I didn't read the article, just had to add this)

[b4its2late]

Imagine a city with 10,000 women and just 10 men.

I could handle it...... they used a sample of my blood to create the chemical compund found in Cealis... ;-)

[Az Joe]

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[Interesting Times]

Professor Jones appears to have taken the sentences of this article and randomized their order to see if they would pair up and evolve...

[dandelion]

"men are biologically hard to get rid of"

I noticed that early on. The man who was to be my husband was just another eager male buzzing about the hive. I fought them all off successfully. But one day, this one male managed to get into my domicile; immediately he began to insidiously implant himself in my home.

Pots, pans, and dishes showed up in my kitchen, accompanied by gifts of food. His boots and shirt mysteriously migrated from him house to my closet; he distracted me from this by buying clothing for me so I wouldn't notice his own. He ran off all the other males, and left his old smelly sneakers by the front door as a warning to any other males who might try to come inside.

I kept saying "no, no, no you can't stay here it's not right, my mother will find out." I sent him away every night, but he kept coming back, trying to move in to my apartment. He took the remote to my TV, and held it hostage. He kept showing up late at night saying, "I'll cook dinner while you relax". I had no choice but to marry him.

Then, to top it all off, he used my body to clone another of his kind - a small, louder version of himself.

My environment (formerly inhabited by only females of the species) is now overrun by that invasive species, males...

At least they are cute, and they can move furniture!!

[KarlInOhio]

Imagine a city with 10,000 women and just 10 men.

Every man would have lots of mates perhaps a hundred or more but however energetic the men were, many of the women would remain without a partner.

Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ration of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

[writer33]

"Someone has to take the garbage cans out to the curb."


And the plethora of things that are to be done as well, somehow relagated to the man.

[Vision]

If this is what the European intellectuals produce, I think I'll grab some chicken fried steak for dinner.

[writer33]

"Yes, men are a complicated lot, and there's a lot we do not know."


I can't agree here. Men are not that complicated at all. Just try working with a bunch of females and you'll see what I mean.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Lest we forget, the female makes selection in most instances.

[writer33]

"Lest we forget, the female makes selection in most instances."


How true. I can only imagine you've heard the words, "Royal Paine" mentioned numerously. :)

[Sweet Land]

what is the point of men?

Without them, who would women get beers for and pick up after?

[FoxPro]

Did somebody mess up, or is this a very poorly written article?

[pankot]

"A hard man will be good to find"

[Old Professer]

It would seem to be a matter of non-formatting; the paragraph headers are mixed in with the text.

[HungarianGypsy]

Cute story! My husband kept showing up everywhere I went in college. Even if I was trying to hide from everyone, he somehow found me. Someone once said that most women get restraining orders on their stalkers, but I married mine. But, he was so cute about it.
I think the world would be a dull place without men. First, I'm not a wimp, but I'm no he-woman either. It's nice to ask someone else to reach the high shelves, kill scary bugs (instead of dancing around screaming and drowning it with hair spray, air freshener, or anything else that has a spray nozzle), and be able to carry the heavy boxes. A man's arms have a more secure feeling to them when his lady is sad. Men also know how to have more fun than women. Just compare stories of growing up between the sexes. Of course, most of those cool stories might be started or ended with how they did or almost got into a huge amount of trouble.

[lilylangtree]

An Elderly Gentleman

An elderly gentleman went to the local drug store and asked the pharmacist for Viagra.
The pharmacist asked, "How many?"
The man replied, "Just a few, maybe a half dozen. I cut each one into four pieces."
Upon hearing that the pharmacist said, "That's too small a dose. That won't get you through sex."
The old fellow said, "Oh, I'm past ninety years old and I don't even think about sex anymore.
I just want it to stick out far enough so I don't pee on my shoes.

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Sven and Ole went into the garbage hauling business.

All they had for a truck was Sven's 1949 Ford pick-up with the grain
sides on it. They had just filled it to the top and started out for the dump,
when they were stopped by the police. The officer said that garbage was
blowing off the top of their load and if they didn't find a way to hold it
down, he was going to give them a ticket. So, Ole climbed up on top and
lay down spread eagled on top of the garbage.

As they drove along, they passed under a bridge. Two Swedes standing on
the bridge saw this sight and one of them remarked, "Vell, vould you look
at dat. Somebody threw away a perfectly good Norwegian.

[GATOR NAVY]

Being a man would be very, very, advantageous, and the gene for maleness would get commoner in the next generation.

I'm not seeing how this would happen. Why would this be any more likely than the number of males staying low because the lack of competition for females is to the advantage of each individual?