The technology to produce artificial sperm, or even create offspring from two females, is already in the pipeline; in addition, genetic evidence has shown that the Y chromosome, the only one that confers maleness, is in a long-term evolutionary decline.
But if it does happen, one expert predicts it will take at least 125,000 years.
Meanwhile:
The affluent Pennine community, with its smart delicatessens and organic grocers, has become an unlikely centre for Britain’s burgeoning community of lesbian families. Up to one in five of the population of 13,000 is a gay woman. Lesbian couples own many of the bars, restaurants, galleries and other businesses that line the Rochdale canal and the nearby River Calder. Although other large cities have significant gay populations, the concentration in Hebden Bridge is probably greater than anywhere else in the UK. And it is getting bigger. In Marie’s antenatal yoga classes last year, no fewer than 4 out of 10 of the other mothers were part of lesbian couples.
Ya gotta figure, if it's happening in Britain, it's happening here, but no mainstream paper is going to report so extensively on the topic in this country, just too controversial.
Anyway, it's a long, comprehensive story from the Guardian touching not only on social practices and scientific advances, but predictions that women will soon exceed men in educational and income advantages.
I should have something snarky to say, but it's basically just fascinating reading.
I'm not rooting for the girls or anything, and really, it could be the same kind of conjecture that had us all flying our own cars by the 21st century.
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