Awkward news from the frontiers of science
For years women have largely been cheering, mostly from the sidelines and generally facetiously and medical science has taken the human race ever closer to the point where it can dispense once and for all with the 'male' of the species.
I should have been paying more attention at the time, because now the details are vague but as I recall it has something to do with either cloning technology or some kind of 'natural' de-masculinisation men (or perhaps both) but the up shot is that men are approaching the moment when they make common cause with the giant panda and make whoopee with the dodo.
Unfortunately, now science, great tease that she is and having led us so far up this fantasy garden path has tripped us up with an ill-placed gnome named gonads.
Media this weekend have gleefully reported a reason for keeping that man rather than washing him right out of your hair. As the Sydney Morning Herald put it (and no, I don't read it I just pinch the headlines): "It’s in the bag, say stem cell scientists"
This is a twist in the stem cell research saga that may not actually make George Bush, Little Johnny Howard (or any of the other grey haired, suited types that run things) feel any more comfortable about this somewhat controversial branch of medical science; in fact I can imagine them crossing their legs in unison as they read the story.
It comes at the same time as researchers push for the lifting of the ban on therapeutic cloning which is currently in force in Australia, and will no doubt be seized on by those who've opposed the science because they can't cope with the cold-blooded mixing of sperm and egg for the purpose of creating something to save an existing life. Mind they can't stand all those sloppy unmarrieds who will persist in making babies on an unplanned basis, too. No, stick to 2.2 and a dog and a cat and a brick veneer on a quarter acre block and don't even think about giving the horses something to take a second look at.
Oh, and don't get seriously ill until they've mastered the art of persuading men to drop 'em in the cause of the greater good.
On the other hand it is intriguing that men have found a rather neat way of rendering themselves indispensable (or at least requiring us to consider that possibility). Resourceful little devils aren't they?
I should have been paying more attention at the time, because now the details are vague but as I recall it has something to do with either cloning technology or some kind of 'natural' de-masculinisation men (or perhaps both) but the up shot is that men are approaching the moment when they make common cause with the giant panda and make whoopee with the dodo.
Unfortunately, now science, great tease that she is and having led us so far up this fantasy garden path has tripped us up with an ill-placed gnome named gonads.
Media this weekend have gleefully reported a reason for keeping that man rather than washing him right out of your hair. As the Sydney Morning Herald put it (and no, I don't read it I just pinch the headlines): "It’s in the bag, say stem cell scientists"
This is a twist in the stem cell research saga that may not actually make George Bush, Little Johnny Howard (or any of the other grey haired, suited types that run things) feel any more comfortable about this somewhat controversial branch of medical science; in fact I can imagine them crossing their legs in unison as they read the story.
It comes at the same time as researchers push for the lifting of the ban on therapeutic cloning which is currently in force in Australia, and will no doubt be seized on by those who've opposed the science because they can't cope with the cold-blooded mixing of sperm and egg for the purpose of creating something to save an existing life. Mind they can't stand all those sloppy unmarrieds who will persist in making babies on an unplanned basis, too. No, stick to 2.2 and a dog and a cat and a brick veneer on a quarter acre block and don't even think about giving the horses something to take a second look at.
Oh, and don't get seriously ill until they've mastered the art of persuading men to drop 'em in the cause of the greater good.
On the other hand it is intriguing that men have found a rather neat way of rendering themselves indispensable (or at least requiring us to consider that possibility). Resourceful little devils aren't they?
posted by Enyo @ 10:27 pm
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