Random SF-ish Thought

[kerravonsen]

What would a society be like, if women, but not men, were immortal? (Presumably immortal in the mostly-immortal sense of "can't die of old age, but can be killed").

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Men would bring in laws to kill women of a certain age, or just do it without them, of course. Unless we also got the power off them and kept them subjugated.

[kerravonsen]

Or both; a mix of different societies.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I thought that too - actually, whichever sex was immortal, society would undoubtedly find it necessary that they do die...

[kerravonsen]

I'm not so sure; in a society which is already patriarchal, women wouldn't have enough power to fight back.

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Some might manage to be dangerous even if they were not powerful, but even if not, you'd have younger men....