Maureen Dowd celebrates Man Eating. And we knew it all along.

[Merlin]

In her column Wednesday MoDo confirms all suspicions.
Looks like we men are destined to become extinct in a few billion years.

Incredible Shrinking Y
By MAUREEN DOWD

Why, oh Y, are men so insecure?
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In her book, Dr. Judson writes about powerful babes, noting that females in more than 80 species, like praying mantises, have been caught devouring their lovers before, during or after mating. "I'm particularly fond," she told me, "of the green spoon worm. . . . The male is 200,000 times smaller, effectively a little parasite who lives in her reproductive tract, fertilizing her eggs and regurgitating sperm through his mouth."

And then there's the tiny female midge, who plunges her proboscis into the male midge's head during procreation. As Dr. Judson told the journalist Ken Ringle, "Her spittle turns his innards to soup, which she slurps up, drinking until she's sucked him dry."
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The Y chromosome, "a mere remnant of its once mighty structure," is worried about size. "Men are wilting away," Dr. Jones writes. "From sperm count to social status and from fertilization to death, as civilization advances, those who bear Y chromosomes are in relative decline."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/09/opinion/09DOWD.html

[foo_bar]

1. I wouldn't sweat it

There's no danger of the Y chromosome becoming extinct, just smaller. Even worms need one to break the glass ceiling of homogeneity.

Edited for syntax

[opihimoimoi]

2. Comparing insects to mammals is stretching it a bit far, especially in the

orgasm dept

gimme a hit

[TahitiNut]

3. Ms. Dowd must be a fun date.

(not) :eyes: Can she even spell 'high maintenance'?

[MattNC]

4. her writing

I've never liked Dowd's writing style. I agree with her a lot of the time, don't get me wrong, but she tries to be too cute with her writing and it gets annoying to me. I guess I just look for more substance than she provides.