It is amusing to learn that the Chinese Communist Party is requiring that sperm donors in China must be loyal communists with “sound ideological qualities”.
I warn the CCP that this requirement will prove useless. A sperm donor may be a perfectly orthodox communist. The question is whether his sperm will follow suit.
I have had extensive experience dealing with spermies, and I can tell you that the slippery little devils are independent creatures with minds of their own. Rogue spermies are perfectly capable of rebelling against their host organisms and embracing a variety of deviant creeds. They can become socialists, capitalists, liberals or conservatives. In Thai terms, they can be pro-Thaksin, anti-Thaksin, pro-junta, anti-junta, red shirts, yellow shirts, Pheu Thai, Democrats or members of that great new party, Fast Forward. There will also be spermies who are utterly apolitical, cherishing only a desire to be united with a cute ovum.
I favour the last type. Let’s keep our spermies out of politics, people. Politics is complicated enough already. Just give them a shot at a cute ovum and let them do their thing.
Horace Beasley