Can women survive on a planet without a male population?

Question

I think they can as long as they have their girlfriends and materials.

Answer 1

To quote a very wise man:

"Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing."

Answer 2

What you said there.. 'materials'. That's the real trick isn't it?

There is some evidence of "matriarchal" societies, in which men were not motivated enough to contribute to it too much. Note here:

They never made it past Stone Age development.

If pre-civilised society was a matriarchy that would explain why the Stone Age lasted a million years and civilisation has lasted only the last few thousand.

In matriarchal societies, the men typically sat around doing NOTHING, unless a war needed to be fought, meat needed to be hunted or something or another needed to be killed. This is the direction feminism is taking us now, incidentally.

So, without the HELP of men, civilisation and all it's "material" trappings will crumble. Starting with the Internet, then power plants, then automobiles, then gas, water, medical care, food supply.

We'd be back to living in grass huts. This would be sustainable with females doing all the work, however given the advent of dangerous predators, or a nearby patriarchal society - this feminist neo-stone age society would be wiped out without men to defend it.

So, no.

Answer 3

There is a big difference between surviving and living. I like men as people, as friends, companions and lovers. I could survive with out a man, but life would not be the same. They are too much fun to be with to want to live without them.

Answer 4

Probably, but it would be less fulfilling for most women. As it would be for men if there were no women. Oh, yea...like the others said, it would be difficult to continue long-term without male sperm.

Answer 5

Not really. Significant others fill a need for women that nothing else can fill, so while the lesbians might be okay, the straight women would need that man.

Answer 6

we need men just as much as men need us. the population would stop growing and we would cease to exist if it was just us women on a planet.

Answer 7

At some point, they're going to age, and they will then need a younger generation...something hard to get without males.

Answer 8

Yeah for about 50-80 years until they all die and there is nobody left to repopulate.

Answer 9

Only until the first generation dies out.

Answer 10

well, we could (i CAN change my own oil, Serin)
but humans wouldn't continue without men, for obvious fertilization issues and the fact that men and women are two halves of the same species.
but i wouldn't want to. i luv my man & all he does for me, i wouldn't want to have to go on without him.

edit:
i am a feminist, but that doesn't mean i hate men! just means i hate it when people assume that i can and cant do something (or try to restrict what i can and cant do) based on my gender.