Having Way Too Many Boys

IT IS NOW POSSIBLE, IN THIS AGE OF MIRACLES, to determine, in advance, not only if and when you get pregnant, but also whether you want your child to be a boy or a girl, and to implement your decision. We are living in a science fiction world. Of all the people who decide their child's gender a priori, ninety percent choose male. Seventy five percent say that, if and when they are confronted with the choice, they too would choose to have a boy. This may be a good thing. Maybe the human species is subconsciously deciding to reduce its population, by having fewer girls available in the future to get pregnant. This is nothing new. the Chinese have for years, in rural areas, been aborting their baby girls after they were born. Boys can get more work done around the farm. On the other hand, this is probably not a good thing. What it probably means is that we humans tend to value men more than women, we humans are universally misogynistic. Of course, as they say, when you are a parent, with a son you only worry about one penis, with a girl, you must worry about hundreds of penises, to put it crudely but honestly. We have invented the ability to predetermine our children's gender at great moral risk, without due prior consideration, just like we developed atomic bombs, automatic rifles, opiates, and just about every other technological advancement ever made. Will we reach the point where our first grade classrooms across the globe are filled with young "gentlemen", assuming that any first grader anywhere is capable of being a "gentleman"? And when we reach this point, will anybody stop, look around, and say "oops, Houston, we have a problem?" I for one do not wish to live in a world dominated by men, like I already do. If it gets any worse, chauvinistically, we might end up with more Vladimir Putins and Donald J. Trumps than we can stand, if we haven't already, which we indeed have. As matters now stand, about fifty two percent of the world's population is female, the rest male. So maybe a bit of evening out is due, but at a ninety percent male preferral rate, we run the risk of overdoing the boy thing. We certainly don't need more soldiers, and, in any event, women make better soldiers, just like they make better about everything else.