[ SECRET POST #2948 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2948 ⌋

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Comments

[lb_lee]

I thought that was honestly kind of the POINT, though. That women aren't magical fairy beings of peace and love, they're mean and violent and just as prone to panic and terrible judgment as men are; the only difference is that now THEY have the power. (Well, what's left after the apocalypse.)

I mean, I had a lot of issues with Y: The Last Man, but I honestly kind of LIKED that the women's world wasn't magically better than pre-apocalypse.

That said, I was PISSED that trans and intersex people weren't much discussed. I mean COME ON, with a stupid idea like that, the field was wide open!

--Rogan

[philstar22]

There is a difference between not magically better and completely falling apart, though. Although, as the anon above said, losing half the world's population would cause a lot of problems. Still, I don't think everything would fall apart so completely.

[lb_lee]

I dunno, 50% of the population is KILLER. I mean, 'decimate' originally meant to lose one in ten, and that was supposed to be pretty hellish. I think the Bubonic Plagues killed one in three, and it was considered one of the most awful times there.

In this case, you'd have a corpse for every person still alive. And that's if you presume that there was no collateral damage in the inevitable traffic accidents, fires, and general mayhem. In reality, you'd probably lose another significant portion of the population to the chaos after, ESPECIALLY since your rescue workers, doctors, and health personnel are similar wrecked. And if you don't haul things together fast enough, then you have the diseases breaking out...

Honestly, I can buy the world collapsing like a house of cards like that.

--Rogan

[(Anonymous)]

food not getting delivered from South America to your supermarket in the winter, power plants suddenly super understaffed...

plus, like, every surviving woman who might be available to switch from being a sociologist or an art teacher or a statistician to learning how to be a power plant engineer is immediately dealing with the loss of a father or a brother or every dude friend they ever had

that's a lot of trauma that a lot of people are going through at the same time, it can't exactly help with the pulling together

and the Black Plague killed about 1 in 3 people in europe over the course of DECADES, not in one night

the gendercide hit everywhere at once, so like there wasn't surplus staff or food anywhere to lean on or send rescue efforts

[lb_lee]

YUP. I hadn't even thought of the mental trauma, but that would put a huge dent in things. (At least one of the few things to be said in my favor in an apocalyptic scenario is that I could handle that!)

Especially since my country is known for being a service economy. A lot of the folks I know do jobs likes sales and stuff that would just not have much practical use in an apocalypse like that. (Myself included! My STORYTELLING would actually be more useful than most of the paying job experience.)

--Rogan

[(Anonymous)]

The Black Death plague outbreak killed about 1 in 3 people in Europe over the course of maybe 5 years. The bubonic plague came back in outbreaks for centuries after that, never quite as badly.

[(Anonymous)]

Right, but... in the comic, everything DIDN'T fall apart completely. There was a massive discontinuity for a little while, but repair efforts started immediately, government kept functioning in accordance with a normal chain of command, infrastructure started being restored, and shortly national governments were up and running more than well enough to engage in douchey conspiracies against each other. Most of the story, after the first disaster arc, is set in places with functional rail systems, food, and people following their individual plans for rebuilding (even if some of those are crazy as fuck).

If you think that the first disaster arc is implausible, I'd suggest looking at real-life disasters on a much smaller scale, like the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.