The Clones Of Glorantha

From: Klyfix_at_aol.com
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 04:43:01 -0500 (EST)

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> Bernuetz.Oliver_at_cbsc.ic.gc.ca noted...
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> I'd like to say that Jane Williams take of childbearing and warriors in
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> was bang on. (And I agree with her that childbearing doesn't get the
> respect it deserves in our society. You need a license to own a dog or
> drive a car but to have children, nada).
>
> Her point on the expendability of men is great too. I can still remember
my
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> first year University anthro prof telling a stunned class full of eighteen

> years old that men were basically useless and that's why men are so full
of
>
> themselves and have to make themselves seem important to society when they

> really aren't. (Can't say that he's far off on a fairly superficial
> level). Bravo Jane.
>
> The note on the expendability of men sparks some thoughts in me. I've
long suggested that in a sufficently technologically advanced society men are somewhat superfluous as they are no longer needed for reproduction. Now with Dolly the sheep and her Xeroxes we are on the treshold of just such an advanced society.

         One would think that in Glorantha there might be a cult/society of women who reproduce via magic without the need of men. I don't know of one, but is there? I remember something about Unicorn riders, but I don't think they reproduce in an unusual fashion. How horrible would it be if I threw such a society onto My Glorantha, and what grotesque errors should I avoid?

V.S. Greene : klyfix_at_aol.com : Boston, near Arkham...

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