Christine's eyes darted about the room in consternation, her mouth open and closing.
She had to calm down,the core of pain in her middle swirling into the infinite river of energy intertwined with her body,making her tremble and gasp,so she closed her eyes in their faces and focused on her breathing.
As soon as the surge of panic retreated like the sea on the shore at low tide she opened her eyes.
The women still watched her with cold determination in their eyes.
-what do they mean destroy?
She knew she had to speak and speak soon,but what should she try to say? They destroy children born with disabilities? What kind of eugenics based hell scape had the world become?
She had not seen any old people, but she had seen people with obvious prosthetic limbs,people wearing futuristic goggles to help them see and even people in wheelchairs,those wheelchairs looked futuristic,as it seemed they were electric powered and movement was controlled telepathically or something,like the ones on 20th century television shows based on the future, so being disabled wasn't an issue here.
-But being born disabled is crime punishable by death?
She drew a deep breath and met the sky blue stare of the pale woman;" I...don't ttt underst st stand?"
She started as the room was filled with heavy sighs. Looking around she saw the women release the tension they had been holding,shrugging their shoulders, shifting their feet and smiling at one another in relief.
-these witches were really going to kill me themselves?
The woman who looked so like the father came and picked her up saying;" oh honey,I am sooo happy you talked. Come sit here with your grandma Larissa.We'll tell you the history of us."
She sat on the father's chair and arranged Christine on her lap to face her, most of the other's left the room while some shuffled about perching on the windowsill and sitting on the only other chair available, that was the "high sapphire."
What followed was a long recitation of the the history of humanity since the year 2035,over ten years from when she killed herself as Chrysalis, lasting to what is the present day, 20 May 2716 almost a thousand years later.
What happened is that in the face of rising female independence more men opted out of participation in the growth of society and the economy, leading the mostly patriarchal governments to unite for the first time in human history, in the year 2030 the Federation of Terra was launched, the world was opened up, allowing free travel between countries which were now called provinces. In the next few years, laws and policies dealing in restrictions aimed at stripping women of their human rights were put in place by the mostly male government because simply treating women like humans was asking for too much.
Psychosocial treaties on the importance of men "leading" society and having preeminence in all things were cited in the creation of a society in which men were free to do whatever they wanted and women had to endure it.
Marriage of any kind was out lawed,abortion was restricted to only be performed in cases of medical emergency where the "birthing person " was in danger of losing their life, not because the government cared for women but because women did all the work.
All women were required to work, men could work if they wanted to, women that didn't get formal employment due to disabilities or any reason were imprisoned, in these prisons they were used as whores until the got pregnant whereby they would be moved to what were called rest farms, they would stay there until the child they bore was 6 years old before being taken back to prison.
Women who worked were not safe, rape was no longer a crime, but a woman assaulting a man was a crime punishable by getting your kneecaps pulverized with a sledgehammer by the "victim " or someone related to the "victim" if the " victim" was incapable. Since abortion was illegal, a working woman who got pregnant (whether consensually or not) would be taken to a rest farm where she would stay with the child until it was six years old before being allowed back to work and her life.
The years before the formation of the Federation of Terra saw a marked increase in femicide, the Federation recieved a lot of support from women and women's rights organizations, the first law they passed was the death penalty for the murder of women and children and they never repealed that law.
At first women were happy especially when they launched a more socialist economic model in which everyone over the age of eighteen was guaranteed housing, a universal basic salary and free education from preprimary up to bachelor degree.
To ensure that everyone got a job so that taxation could occur industrialization was not only halted but destroyed, assembly lines were now humans instead of machines, but all the back breaking jobs were left to humans. Education was completely handed over to AI.
By the year 2035,the direction humanity was headed to was clear to most women when travel restrictions that only applied to women and children were put in place. Through social media boycotting and marches were organized but the government was ready, all women who participated were arrested and had their kneecaps broken. A law barring people with disabilities from working and drawing the basic salary. The millions of women around the world that were declared disabled, due to physical disabilities and intellectual disabilities were put in prison, to be used and bred for a fee by men who were willing, disabled men were executed.
Mental health issues were classified as disabilities and those so afflicted were killed if they were men and imprisoned if they were women.
In the year 2035, the world government, launched the military they had been working on in secret for years,it was an all male army that were trained specifically to dehumanize women and kill any man who stood in defense of women. Men who were in prison were released unless the crime they imprissoned for was killing a woman or a girl child. That was also the year that rape was declared to not exist. The year that a woman hitting a man was declared a hate crime.
Over 20 million women and children died the next three years in mass suicides, less than 500000 men died in defense of women during the military clamp down,over 2 million men were executed for killing women and/or children.
More women became complicit in their own dehumanization. A woman came up with the idea of the rest farms, since children were being born and then killed at birth by their "birthing persons ", the Bureau of Human Resources was formed, headed and run by women.
These women were given pewer and they ran they the prisons,rest farm and boarding schools. The lessons were given by AI but,after lessons those children needed to be taught "how to be human" by other humans. The government decided all schooling had to be divided by sex and the boarding schools' housing would all be run the women of the Bureau of Human Resources.
The government had already passed the universal basic salary, and had worked in tandem with the 1% of the world that were hoarding resources to redistribute the these resources, any who objected were declared
mentally ill,imprisoned if they were women and executed if they were men.
Holding a woman hostage was declared attempted murder and carried the same sentence as femicide.
From the 2030 to 2039 the world saw new laws and a new status quo put in place.
Funny enough, the new way of life was similar to the old way of life.
Men benefitting from the labour's of women, legally allowed to treat women as inhumanely as they wished provided they did not kill them and they had nothing to do with any children that were born from their genetic material.
The deal under this world government was for women then it had ever been in recorded history.