Gendercide

"The deliberate extermination or reduction in number of some or all individuals of one sex because of their sex."
That's what I did today at work. Fruit fly gendercide.
Now before all of you get too worked up, remember, I'm a vegetarian, conservationist, pacifist. It wasn't easy for me to kill so many male flies. I had to remind myself how pissed off I get at the little buggers when they invade my bananas at home. When that happens, I not only commit gendercide - but all out genocide! As a feminist, it felt a bit liberating to control the fate of so many males. But, they all looked so helpless wiggling about (anesthesized) under the microscope. I felt sorry for them. (I even let a few escape death... shhh!). Of course, the females will all meet an untimely death by squishing as well. Until then, they will lead the lives of lab rats at the hands of ill-equiped, juvenile undergraduate students in Ecology Lab. I'm not sure which is worse... immediate death by squishing or constant manipulation and proding (before being put to death). I guess the flies don't really know or care. All they're concerned about is eating and spreading their genes (i.e. screwing).
C'est la vie d'une mouche!

Ode to a fly - by Michelle
Oh, Fly on the wall what makes you stick?
Please fall Quickly so I can give you a flick.
The swatter is coming, so quickly flee,
Or you will soon be flat like the other three!
A swing, A swoosh,
A smack, a splat,
I’m sorry I killed you,
But now you are flat.
Oh, Mosquito on my arm,
What makes you stick?
(http://www.liberated.org/michelle/odetoafly.htm)