Day Million

1966

       Our society as a whole was in most cases brought you to believe that love was always between a man and woman, that marriage was made for a man and a woman but the reality is there is so much more than the simple sex of a person. Sexual orientation is not always agreeable or in correlation to one’s sex anymore and stereotypes of what is expected from the typical man and woman are constantly being broken as we grow more open minded and accepting of the things that have always been instilled into our mindsets. I really enjoyed this story because I am one hundred percent for equality, being true to yourself and happiness; I truly hope there is a day when someone who is transgender like Dora will only be seen as Dora.  “Day Million” was everything someone wouldn’t expect, especially considering the time and era of Frederik Pohl.  Yes, it was completely unconventional that Don and Dora chose to make a life commitment to each other I the first few sentences they spoke and after the ceremony continued on their separate ways but they were happy and I think that is what most people tend to over look in our society. They’d rather focus on the details and how they would feel in that situation but the point is they are not in that situation,

When it Changed

1972

When I was reading this I tried to imagine myself living n a world without any men at all. Without fathers, brothers, uncles, grandpapa’s and even just friends and I really can’t, there will always be a man that’ll pop up somehow but I can see how this can sometimes be an angry woman’s dream, More often than not women are seen as the weaker sex who rely on men, we face double standards, have the expectation of being clingy and dependent when in reality nothing could be farther form the truth and honestly we’re fed up with it. This story shows a colony of woman who has learned to survive without the aid of men and thrive. For 600 years they’ve basically proved all men wrong, even the Russian human men are concerned when they find out that there are no men for the “helpless” woman and offer them a “better life” where they won’t be mistreated as if working and providing for yourself as a woman is too much for our delicate bodies. The women even learned how to reproduce, creating only female offspring as well.  The process of parthenogenesis is reproducing with out fertilization and can be found among different plants as well as the New Mexico Whiptaill lizards that actually created an all female society and strictly only reproduce females as well. I remember hearing about this species one day while I was watching the Discovery channel so as soon as I figured out what this story was about I immediately related it back to the lizards.  I don’t think we need men but I think they add a nice touch of diversity to our civilization overall and like to think that they need us women. Haha.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/02/21/extra-chromosomes-allow-all-female-lizards-to-reproduce-without-males/#.VPAHy0JbSkg