Once there is only one gender, it isn't only 'men'. It would be as correct to say there are only 'women'. There are just 'people'. It would be incomprehensible, as if we came across a race of people where half of them were not humanoid, even though they are all the same species. We would have no name for the two categories.
I suppose it's different, since they purposely evolved themselves this way using technology. They have a memory/history of there being a child-bearing sex, now replaced by machines. And they know other species retain the child-bearing sex.
But after a few generations I still think they wouldn't really recognize themselves as 'men'. They would just be people who have done away with the tedium of pregnancy. Maybe they would go, "Ewww, you carry babies in your own body? How gross! And what a burden!" But I don't know that they would empathize more with the males of another species. They'd be different altogether.
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Date: 2013-01-20 05:56 pm (UTC)I suppose it's different, since they purposely evolved themselves this way using technology. They have a memory/history of there being a child-bearing sex, now replaced by machines. And they know other species retain the child-bearing sex.
But after a few generations I still think they wouldn't really recognize themselves as 'men'. They would just be people who have done away with the tedium of pregnancy. Maybe they would go, "Ewww, you carry babies in your own body? How gross! And what a burden!" But I don't know that they would empathize more with the males of another species. They'd be different altogether.
Or maybe not, I dunno.