I am a man and I'm entering the twilight of my life. For me, as for most blokes, that's not a particularly happy place to be. But not anymore. I'm glad I'll be long gone before the world turns upside down, women become the providers rather than the nurturers, and the male of the species becomes redundant.
This is, apparently, already happening and has been for a couple of decades if you believe Hanna Rosin, an American journalist and author who has written a book called The End of Men and whose 8500-word synopsis in the Atlantic magazine I had the misfortune to come across this week.
Rosin says: "Man has been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But for the first time in human history, that is changing - and with shocking speed. Cultural and economic changes always reinforce each other. And the global economy is evolving in a way that is eroding the historical preference for male children, worldwide."
And it's not just happening in the Western world. According to Rosin, it's also happening in countries where female children have always been seen as a burden rather than a blessing.
In the United States, she says, where fertility clinics can separate male and female chromosomes, 75 per cent of prospective parents are requesting girls compared with 65 per cent in the 1990s.