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Peace on Earth?

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Here’s an old MGM cartoon about forest critters living happily ever after after us humans have wiped ourselves off the face of the planet. The video has a warning that it may be offensive, and I have to wonder what kind of asshole would have a problem with it.

At the beginning of the cartoon, the squirrels are singing about “peace on earth, goodwill to men”, and one of the baby squirrels asks what “men” are, and grandpa squirrel proceeds to explain how they all killed each other off. At first I was miffed that women weren’t even mentioned (”men” does NOT refer to all humans and it never has, I don’t care how much you would like to think it does), but it does bring up the point: can you name me one war that was started by women? Helen of Troy doesn’t count, that was men fighting over a woman. Name me one war that was instigated by women. You can’t, can you? Obviously, humans would be better off if we ditched those defective Y chromosomes and became parthenogenic. I’m convinced that peace on earth among men is an impossibility.