No, I'm not a social conservative middle aged women.
But thank you for gathering that from the title. No, what I have to say here is much more interesting than that drivel.
Chances are you haven’t noticed it, but there’s a war between the sexes going on. A foul, chemical war it is, a bitter battle to the death. Gladly, it’s a rather small-scale war. The parties doing the fighting are sex chromosomes: tiny, curled-up molecules of DNA, that lay hidden within each human cell. Still, the future of mankind is what’s at stake. You see, it’s a war between boys and girls -- literally. And here’s the latest news from the battlefield: the women are winning. At least, that's what it looks like. The girls are about to wipe the boys from the face of the earth.
As you may know (or not), there are two kinds of sex chromosomes: X and Y. If you inherited two X’s at conception (one X from every parent), you’re a woman. When your father gave you a Y-chromosome, it adds up to XY -- which stands for man. All in all, the Y-chromosome is the thing that makes a man a man. On Y, you’ll find all the stuff that a man needs. You’ll find genetic instructions for how to make sperm, if you please. If there exists a gene for watching football and telling lame jokes, you’ll definitely find it on the Y-chromosome. But on Y, you’ll also find stuff that is harmful to women. For example: sperm contains chemicals that attack the woman’s body. See, semen comes with chemicals that shut down the woman’s immune system, so that it can make it into the womb alive.
That's why X, the female chromosome, hates Y. In response, X is constantly throwing all kinds of wicked chemicals at Y. X is killing Y. Take a look through the microscope, and you can immediately see Y is in trouble. Y is a tiny, crumpled chromosome -- not exactly a proud symbol of manliness. Ever since Y split off from the other chromosomes, some 300 million years ago, its number of genes went down from about 1,000 to 80. How did it ever get so tiny? You guessed it: that's because of the female chromosome's attacks. But even without a microscope, the signs are clear. The fact that some people are gay or transsexual could be a direct consequence of the battle between the X- and the Y-chromosome, some geneticists think.
And there are more grisly clues. For example, every now and then, doctors coincidentally stumble upon a woman who has XY for chromosomes -- the ‘male’ combination. Somehow these ladies' X-chromosomes have found a way to disable the Y-chromosome. In 1947, a French hospital admitted a female patient who gave birth to a baby girl. The woman wasn’t the least surprised. All births in her family were females, she told the doctors. Scientific investigation confirmed this. Somehow, the family’s genes had found a way to overcome the ‘man-problem’. Her family had learned how to kill Y. And now, the family's women no longer gave birth to any boys. Perhaps the most spine-chilling clue comes from the men. As we speak, 1 to 2 percent of all men is infertile because of a malfunctioning Y-chromosome. That doesn't seem like much. However, it is astounding. because the defects cannot have been inherited. So in other words: 1 to 2 percent of all men have their Y-chromosome disabled during their life.
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see where that could lead. A couple of thousands of years more, and Y could be history. Suddenly, you would see the number of men dropping sharply. According to an estimate of the British geneticist Brian Sykes, it could take only 5,000 generations before the world turned into a place almost exclusively inhabited by women.
So...in the end, everyone will be dead. Without men, no babies. Without babies, no mankind.
And do you know what? Every time you have sex, you initiate the battle between X and Y. And you give X an advantage over Y. Every single time you get laid? You're killing humanity.
By sex.
Also, credit goes to http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm for most of the essay because I'm too lazy to write all that myself.
