When Women Rule

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BY ELVIRA

It was about the year 2000, some 25 years after the Third World War. The survivors, nearly a million in all, unharmed by radio-active agencies, were concentrated in a part of America that had escaped all contamination and had suffered but little destruction. A notable feature with these survivors of humanity was that the women outnumbered the men by at least six or seven to one.

Naturally, the women were dominant. They quickly decided to form one general government, and, as soon as life was again orderly and production of food and materials effective, they de- cided in a kind of supreme council that men were the inferior sex. Further, that, as it was the aggression of the male that had so nearly destroyed the whole world, they would preserve their new- found civilization and culture by preventing any possibility of men ever becoming aggressive again. To this end, the council de- creed that, women and their ways being so much superior to men and their habits, all persons, male and female, should wear skirts. As far as possible, all boys should be brought up and trained as girls had been in the past. Men who were ugly and uncurably masculine in appearance would have to wear a severer type of skirt, with plain petticoats and untrimmed knickers. All would be obliged to wear tight corsets and a new kind of thin stocking, rather like the earlier nylons, but stronger and quite ladder-proof.

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Men who were amenable and this applied to the great major- were encouraged to wear smart skirts with wide, frilled petticoats, dainty knickers and smart, well-out corsets - in fact, to be as feminine as the girls and women had been some forty years earlier. They were expected to wear their hair long and curled, to have their ears pierced for long earrings and to have their breasts much enlarged and feminized by injections of female hormones oestrogen and a new one that not only produced large, firm, fem- inine-looking breasts with prominent nipples, but could even at certain periods, secrete a milk-like fluid.