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iniguy (m)
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This is interesting though unverified.
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sley4life (m)
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this must be hoax
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Recognise
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Tongue-in-cheek  @OPAre men doomed?That provocative if daft question popped up this week after scientists in Britain said they had created human sperm in the lab.
If there's no need for sperm, goes the thought, why do we need men? Imagine a world without all the testosterone.
Would it be more restful and peaceful, less bloodied by war? Would it be kinder, more consensual?
What about science and the arts? Take away men, and you would have no more Darwins, Michelangelos, Shakespeares, Mozarts. Could women equal their genius?
The male-vs-female debate is of a course time-honoured debate, though I have often found it rather sterile, with predictable stereotypes that are rounded up and fired, probably to ease some ancient resentment against the opposite sex.
In this case, though, the intriguing scientific question also raises an intriguing social one. What, in fact, is the point of men? An anthropologist might say that, in our palaeolithic past, men were assigned the role of hunter-gatherer because of their greater strength and speed.
Women, though, were required to be home-makers because of their physiology, as the bearer and nurturer of offspring. These genetic basics were imperatives for survival in a hostile, uncertain world. They became codified socially, reinforced by laws and religious edicts about gender behaviour and, more subtly, through child-raising.
The traditional gender codes went unchallenged so long as human society still survived by muscle strength. But cracks started to appear when machines started to do the jobs that, before, only men could do.
When it became obvious that, thanks to machines, women could do the same job as men -- as for instance when they became munitions workers in Europe in World War I -- the old order was confronted by a huge challenge. To my mind, the process snowballed into a revolution half a century ago, with the advent of the Pill.
Control over their own fertility unleased enormous empowerment for women, enabling them to choose when to have a family. They could at last look beyond a role as homemaker and envision a career. Eventually, legal and social changes helped to fling open doors to them in any number of professions.
Today, as we move into the post-industrial economy, the future for women looks brighter than ever. An economy that wants to be based on knowledge has to be gender-equal in order to survive, for it cannot afford not to use half of its intellectual assets.
Countries that do not allow women a good education that is equal to men's and let them have the means to use it are doomed to fall behind.
The advancement of women, though, raises the question: What about men?
Answering it has never been easy, especially for men and societies that were quite comfortable with the old hierarchy, the old rules and roles, in sexual relationships, the home and the workplace. In the most conservative societies, change seems to be interpreted as a mortal threat that can only be combatted by denial and iron-fisted enforcement of tradition. Yet even in western countries that were the first to experience change, adaptation has not been easy.
A common theme of books, films and songs these days is men who are unanchored, adrift in their relationships and uncertain about what they do, reflecting an existential unease.
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solaONI
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they can go on wit research for all i care. At least their govt funds such things & other donor agencies. But like one nairalander said "How do u feel like growing up without emotions or knowing that you are genetically made"
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slimfine (f)
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did something happen to the natural ways of sperm production? they are trying to create what we already have a source for when a child dies of hunger every second around the world. na wa ooh!
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WackyJ1 (m)
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Have you guys not wondered how these babies( or men of the future) will look like, if for instance about 2million is produced and injected into a woman. How will they resemble a father if they don't have one or will they resemble only the woman. They might soon start adding freaky proteins to make them more immune to disease. They might even say this is the cure for HIV AIDS. We might be in the time of Four arms(BEN 10), Juggernaut(x-men), sheva and goro(Mortal kombat).
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Siena (m)
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hello Naira landers, i am selling my millenium beetle
Clean body
Strong Engine
Full Air cOnditioned
10 Loader Cd player
2.0 Litre engine
Manual Transmission
asking price: N580,000
pictures available on request.
Call: 08032729002
And what does a VW Beetle have to do with health?
Or can't you read, and comprehend? |
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tayo_ast (m)
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OMG!
I'm quite sure all Penises seeing this are already Vulnerable and Paranoid.
Human beings are crude, and mean! This is surely gonna render d Penis race redundant!
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George_D (m)
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try as they can, the scientists cannot replace how God designed life to
be created.
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v3nom4eva (m)
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try as they can, the scientists cannot replace how God designed life to
be created.
My thoughts EXACTLY!!!! |
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Nezan (m)
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try as they can, the scientists cannot replace how God designed life to
be created.
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dominique (f)
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LMAO @ tayo_ast   hello Naira landers, i am selling my millenium beetle
Clean body
Strong Engine
Full Air cOnditioned
10 Loader Cd player
2.0 Litre engine
Manual Transmission
asking price: N580,000
pictures available on request.
Call: 08032729002
lets not stray from the topic pls, there's always Autos or Adverts section to posts stuff like these. |
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George_D (m)
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this auto guy must be a spammer. be careful o or you may be banned!
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totalfact (m)
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unimaginable!
Can you imagine!
The young ladies (especially rich ones) may be arrogant to young men now. Of course they can now give birth without men!
Whaooooooooooooooooo!
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WackyJ1 (m)
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If i'm correct its the same men which discovered or should i say invented this. We hav just rendered ourselves disposable.
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dominique (f)
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guys relax, no right thinking woman will want to conceive with some synthetic sperm. . . we'll be sticking to the authentic stuff ladies abi i lie?  |
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beknown
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Let the good people of Africa beware of expensive joke. Human sperm created from stem cells are laboratory test only. They are not real. It could be the subject of university student project.
The genuine sperm is not man-made in the laboratory. It is made by God. Africans beware.
We do not need man-made sperm in Africa. Europe can keep it for their private use.
We do not need unexplained sicknesses and diseases in Africa.
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didi-007
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Fake stem cells, cloned human beings, end times definately, they can create anything they want and play God, but they cannot create a soul, the spirit, thats what makes us human.
all these artificial this, artificial that, no wonder we have new diseases everyday, may God help us.
donating anonymous sperm is just as bad, what if the children marry themselves in future without knowing, anonymous brother and sister, na wa o.
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3kay945 (m)
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pls let them bring d product, am sure it or he wont be worst than this nija agbero, |
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Nezan (m)
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Fake stem cells, cloned human beings, end times definately, they can create anything they want and play God, but they cannot create a soul, the spirit, thats what makes us human.
all these artificial this, artificial that, no wonder we have new diseases everyday, may God help us.
donating anonymous sperm is just as bad, what if the children marry themselves in future without knowing, anonymous brother and sister, na wa o. |
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George_D (m)
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next we'll be seeing fake human beings! |
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Nezan (m)
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Even with all these, have they been able to manufacture a human artificially?
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George_D (m)
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no, they have not succeeded in making a live human being yet. but in anycase as dominique posted above, every right thinking woman still cherishes the warm feeling of a man's stuff inside so i dare say the male specie is still very much in business! |
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