"Alright class put away your textbooks." Dr. Prynn walked sharply around to the front of her desk, the clacking of her stiletto heels putting the whole room of women on edge. All except you, Amy Brooke, her star pupil. You confidently close your book on male psychology knowing that all the information is locked somewhere between the folds of your college-tempered gray matter. "Can anyone now tell me in your own words why after the shrinking did war, crime and poverty vanish from the globe?"
A glittery hand goes up, "Yes Anna?"
"Well with 50% of the population reduced to a food source, world hunger was solved..."
"It's true," Ms. Prynn started to agree. You know from her straight stance what's coming, "but, that doesn't explain everything. After all violence had raged all across the world before the shrinking, not just in areas where scarcity of food was an issue, anyone thinks they can round out Ms. Eringston's hypothesis?" The professor clacked her heel, only faster this time. Her hair bun looked as impatient as she did for an answer. You decide to give her an answer, and not the book's though you could quote it verbatim if you wanted too.
"The male of the human species relentlessly seeks power because it believes that the image of such will procure for it a sexual success, therefore when males have any degree of power there is bound to be an escalation." You now have all eyes of the class on you. More than the idiosyncrasy of your answer, the fact that you had given it before being called upon, drew not only attention but awe. "We see this biologically in the case of many animals where the male is drastically increased in size or is adorned with horns useless for anything but ritualized combat. Technology merely sped up and removed limiters upon male competition. Horns became swords, swords -- guns, guns -- missiles... Dr. Prynn, the reason the earth is now healthy could be no simpler: those certain toxic males themselves have been rendered impotent."
The entire class held its collective academic breath as it waited for Dr. Prynn to digest the answer. For a long few seconds, her dark red lips only hinted at her reaction. Finally, they contorted into a grin, one the attending teacher's-aide would later swear to the lab T.A.'s lasted for a full five seconds -- a new record. "An acceptable working hypothesis, Amy, lets discuss it after class if you have the time, but for the moment we shall move on to
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