“THE FAIRY OF JUSTICE” /// A Modern Fairy Tale

(Version 2 of: “Modern Fairy Tale ABOUT THE GOOD + THE BAD WOMEN”)




Once upon a time, there was a world
in which men and women constantly complained about each other,
yet somehow still managed to function together surprisingly well.
Men liked to claim that women could not park properly.
Women liked to claim that men could not even understand a toaster without an instruction manual.
And somehow, both were occasionally true.
Yet the world kept running.
Power plants hummed.
Trains operated.
Hospitals functioned.
Garbage was collected.




And every evening, millions of people argued online about why the other side was supposedly responsible for everything.
But over the years, the arguments became more aggressive.
Especially one small yet extremely loud group had specialized in turning every problem into a gender war.
“Men are overrated,” Vanessa Stahl often declared on talk shows.
“Most systems run automatically anyway.”
“Automatically?” some tradesman from the audience would usually ask.
“And who repairs those systems? Santa Claus?”
The audience laughed.
Vanessa did not.
She was convinced:
The future belonged to women alone.




Other women saw things far more calmly.
“Maybe we should simply stop screaming at each other all the time,” Judge Miriam Berger once remarked dryly.
But reasonable people rarely generate high ratings.
High above it all, the Fairy of Justice watched the chaos unfold.
She was ancient.
She had seen kingdoms collapse, empires fail, and had even survived the invention of social media.
But now even she was getting headaches.
One evening, while sitting on a cloud reading internet comments, she muttered:
“Perhaps humanity simply needs some practical experience for once.”
She snapped her fingers.




The next morning, the unimaginable happened.
Billions of people disappeared.
All men.
And almost all women as well.
Only that small group of radical activists remained — the same women who had spent years declaring that men were practically unnecessary.
At the same time, everyone else found themselves on a second Earth.
The two worlds were identical.
Almost identical.
Because on Earth-1, all men were gone.
And on Earth-2, the loudest man-hating activists were missing.
The Fairy had also installed gigantic screens everywhere.
“A little entertainment is only fair,” she said with satisfaction.
At first, things on Earth-1 went surprisingly well.
Supermarkets were full.
Electricity still worked.
Social media exploded with enthusiasm.
“See?” Vanessa declared triumphantly into the cameras.
“Nothing collapsed!”
In fact, the first months almost seemed more peaceful than before.
Less arguing.
Less macho behavior.




Fewer embarrassing dating tips from men wearing sunglasses in their profile pictures.
But then the small problems began.
At first, a substation failed somewhere.
Not dramatic.
Just one city without power.
Then two.
Then it turned out that the only engineer who truly understood the cooling system now happened to live on Earth-2.
“We’ll just watch tutorials,” someone said optimistically.
Unfortunately, there were twelve contradictory tutorials.
And one of them had been made by a conspiracy theorist.




Things on Earth-2 were not perfect either.
The infrastructure remained stable, yes,
but many men suddenly discovered
that “emotional labor” apparently did exist after all.
Within months, countless apartments had transformed into biological disaster zones.
Many men were also shocked to discover
that children do not automatically fall asleep
just because someone says:
“It is sleeping time now.”
One particularly proud mechanical engineer spent three full hours trying to make a ponytail for an eight-year-old girl.
The video became a massive public-viewing hit on both Earths.
Even the Fairy of Justice laughed until she cried.
Years passed.




On Earth-1, life became increasingly difficult.
Not because women were incapable — quite the opposite.
Many learned astonishingly fast.
Female pilots became mechanics.
Journalists became electricians.
Professors became dock workers.
The real problem was something else:
Modern civilization was more complicated
than anyone had imagined.
Nobody could replace everyone.




And exactly the same was true for Earth-2.
The technology remained more stable there,
but society gradually became strange.
Less conflict did not automatically mean more happiness.
Many men missed their partners.
Many children missed their mothers.
And surprisingly many evenings at bars ended with drunk men suddenly talking about feelings.
A development nobody had expected.




One day, the Fairy of Justice finally activated every screen simultaneously.
“Well then,” she said,
“have you learned enough?”
Both Earths fell silent.
Vanessa Stahl slowly stepped in front of a camera.
She looked older than before.
Tired.
“Perhaps,” she said carefully,
“our greatest mistake was not that we wanted independence.”
She paused.
“But that at some point, we started believing we no longer needed each other at all.”
On Earth-2, the mechanical engineer with the catastrophic ponytail slowly nodded.
“Yes,” he muttered.
“That was probably pretty stupid.”




The Fairy of Justice smiled with satisfaction.
Then she snapped her fingers once more.
And suddenly, everyone was home again.
Of course, men and women continued arguing afterward.
About toilet seats.
About politics.
About relationships.
And about whose fault it was that the washing machine was making weird noises again.
But almost everyone had understood one thing:
A world rarely functions better
when one half believes it can easily live without the other.

The End.


 

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