If you go to the Google search engine at the top of your page
, you know, the spot where you see www.michaelmurray.ca and type in “ Men can” followed by a space, the autofill will provide you with these five suggestions:
Men can get pregnant
Men can have babies
Men can have babies now
Men can have periods
Men can cook
I then tried “Women can”
Women can fly
Women can vote
Women can do it
Women can do anything
Women can be drafted
I then tried “Women are”
Women are from venus
Women are beautiful
Women are some kind of magic
Women are the future
Women are funny get over it
It’s a little bit of social engineering, this. Google hopes to suggest new ways for us to think about, and shape the world before us. I tried this search for a few other things to see what other suggestions were being made:
Science is fun
Science is real
Science is magic
Science is fiction
Science is wrong sometimes
Japan is attacking
Japan is a radioactive island
Japan is known for Godzilla
Japan is dying
Japan is overrated
Jennifer Lawrence is not your girlfriend
Jennifer Lawrence is talented
Jennifer Lawrence is related to Abraham Lincoln
Jennifer Lawrence is fragrant in ways that cannot be described
Jennifer Lawrence is not scared of ghosts
