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~ARTISAN
REVIEW
from her mother's. Her sense of time is vague; it is impossible for her
to imagine herself as a being separate from all these lives . Once in a
while she looks into the glass and sees that slW is becoming her
mother.
At the other end of the spectrum \ let us imagine a labotatory in
which men-the most powerful men in
hist~ry,
it is said-are en–
gaged in work of extreme delicacy ahd precision, preparing a new
series of multiple, identical embryos from ceUs derived from selected
human tissue. The embryos will come into
~onsciousness
with their
identity already prepared, for they will have been selected to provide
the patriarchy of a new generation, selected by the patriarchy of the
current generation to perpetuate its own characteristics-especially
those of rational genius, the gift of abstraction, and the ability to
dissociate "work"
fro~
"personal" probl(!ms and disturbances.
Females are also being
h~ed,
for specific
phy~ical
characteristics, and
they fall into two categories. One is a body-wpe, or range of body–
types, capable of ptoducing erections in a range of males, not for
procreation but because impotence is an increasing problem since the
end of physical paternity. The other is a body-type matched with
mental qualities suited for special purposes, such as "manned" space
flights requiring smallness of build, adaptiveness, physical endur–
ance, and a low level of emotive intensity of desire for interhuman
relation. The new males will be free from the disturbing effects of
mother-love and mother-dominance; and the new females will not
suffer from sex-role frustration, since no Joan of Arc, no Elizabeth I,
no Mary Wollstonecraft, no Anne Hutchinson, no Sojourner Truth,
no George Eliot,
~g ~~a
goldman, no Margaret Sanger, no Ger–
trude Stein or
£'W~\y. I?Jck~pso'p'
has been or will be chosen for the
reproduction of h,er
I
'type" in quantity. Elite women, chosen by and
working with
~en t ~-e
useq
f\9~
only as intellectual contributors to
social enginee.¥,.n.g bur also
~
donors of cell nuclei to insure that a
token quantity of women can be produced as required. Thus, it is
demonstrated that females with the proper endowment-though
quantitatively much fewer-are valued as highly as males.
A revolution based on patriarchal socialism might abolish the
tarpaper shack, but who could claim that it would abolish the engi–
neering of society by men? For, however theoretically men may call
for "women's liberation" in any social order they may devise, how-
