"So how about this," Karyn considered. "We make it like a zombie outbreak. Cat girls will feel compelled to chase after and infect others. Maybe only until they infect at least 3 others, or until a week passes, whichever happens first."
"I hate that," Jon said, shooting it down. "Making everyone fiercely aggressively chasing down others? Do you want the military to shoot them dead to keep it contained? Because that sounds like a good way to get a lot of innocent people killed.
"Oh. Well how about just a regular disease then. Catgirlitis. We'll just give ourselves an extra pair of boobs that give us a few powers like invincibility but also emit viruses that infect others, and we'll have the boys turn into girls, and the girls turn into hermaphrodites just like us. I should have turned my mom into a hermaphrodite, but instead we just made them both girls, we should..."
"Karyn, as much as I want to share this thing we have with the world, I really don't like your plan there. Especially the forced sex change part. This thing where you ended up a hermaphrodite, and I ended up a girl, that works for us. We both like it. You were a heterosexual girl and I was a heterosexual guy and yet we both adapted to it and I'm your girlfriend now and I have come to love it, I love feeling you balls deep in me, not having balls or a dick of my own, I’m even looking forward to going through with the pregnancy and giving birth and being the mother of your children, and I know you liked being just anatomically male and you like being a hermaphrodite even more, though you haven't been both male and female for long but I know you like it even more. But you have to know that it's not for everyone. Part of why I'm fine with it is because the dick in me is yours, I honestly would hate the thought of sex with another male, that would be absolutely revolting, I can't even consider the thought. And there are going to be a lot of people much more averse to the whole thing than me. It's going to make a lot of people miserable if you push it on them. People will even kill themselves over it, you can count on that."
"Well ok everyone just becomes girls then. Sure, some guys will be upset at first at their new female bodies, and maybe a few will immediately do something regrettable, and maybe we can put some sort of psychological injunction against them doing that into the disease, I don't want to screw with people's free will but maybe it'll just stop them for a month, because I think eventually everyone will be happier when they give it a chance. Think about it, Jon, if everyone becomes female, it'll be the end of sexism. Both ways! Sexism against men, and sexism against women. To my great shame, I was unfair to you earlier, I was being sexist against guys, and for that I'm genuinely sorry to you. But it can all go away! It will be the end of this social awkwardness everyone has, these factions where it's us against them and everyone's obsessed about it and we were different but normally a man and a woman can't really be friends, this divide, where there's a different type of person that they can never really understand."
"Ok, granted, you might be onto something with that, and maybe it would ultimately make most people happier, but you can't say it's not sexist for you to want to get rid of all the guys."
"I'm not talking about killing them, just changing them, in a way they'll eventually come to like! What's bad about that?"
"I'm just playing devil's advocate," Jon said, holding up her many paws. "But would you listen to yourself, of course not all men will eventually be happy being turned into women, even hot ones when everyone else is like that too, who the hell are you to be qualified to have such arrogant expectations. You’ve also got to drop the paw thing, at least with all four hands, lots of people would lose their reason for living without their dexterity, like a concert violinist for instance. This is fun in the bedroom, but it might suck to be all the way like this all the time for everyone. As for making people generally happy, I'm not saying you're wrong that it would make the world a better happier place, I'm just saying you're too confident and naively simplistic. Not everyone thinks about everything the same way you do. Think about all the religious people on Earth, for instance."
"Well they'll just think this disease is part of god's plan then."
"Hmm. I guess you could always say that about anything though," Jon said. “Every bad thing that happens would be part of god’s plan, so are you then always justified in doing any bad thing you want?”
"Or you know, normal diseases, that can only catch if you share bodily fluids, or at least get coughed on, that's just too slow and ineffective. So if it's a magic disease, why does it need to act like it's transmitted by viruses? We could make it catch just being within a certain distance, even on the other side of a steel bank vault. The range of influence of the stone is several miles, right? So if our powers are based on that, even if we're not using the stone directly, let's suppose that's the range of influence of any power we can create. So how about, anyone within that distance of a 4-armed cat girl, just spontaneously transforms, and also gets pregnant, with the other cat girl who infected her as the 'father', or you know, the source of the other genetic information, and she'll get pregnant with a litter of 6," Karyn suggested.
"Are you nuts? Everyone on Earth would be changed almost immediately, and what about the people who would hate it, and they'd all get pregnant, and the world population would be 7 times larger in a few months.
"What if..." Karyn continued.
"Karyn!" Jon shouted, frustrated.
"What?"
"Ok, this thing, this change. I know you want to push it on the world. I get it. I kind of am excited about the idea too, of cat girl world. But how about this. It can only be activated with a kiss with a cat girl, and the subject will change only if they truly want to at the time of the kiss, and can change back with another kiss, so there won't even be any buyer's remorse, and it also won't be the end of civilization with no future generations because of everyone being permanently female. It would allow for all the good parts of everything you said, with none of the bad parts. Well actually, no it wouldn't end sexism if only guys could be guys whenever they wanted, there needs to be a little bit of a forced element to it, just not too much. How about this. Everyone who changes is stuck as a cat girl for a month, but then they can change back from a kiss, but they can change back to cat girl whenever they want on no notice, but then they're stuck that way for a month again. So it won't be that easy to get out of. And of course the psychological injunction against suicide if they're a cat girl and have been for less than a month."
Karyn held up one paw in the air with her mouth open for a moment as if she was about to yell "objection!", and then finally actually said, "yeah ok I got nothin', that's a pretty good idea. The soft sell. No wait. No that’s no good at all! Men would still be men, just with the power to be women whenever they want, but with no residual effects lasting longer than a month! That wouldn’t get rid of sexism at all. We can’t fix the gender divide with half measures. It may be a little harsh and some men may be unhappy at first but you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs! It needs to permanently change everyone into cat girls with no way out."
“Then I guess we have some irreconcilable differences in ideological stance then, Karyn. Because I’m not going to let you do that.”
Little did they know, a werewolf was watching them from the shadows, listening to everything they said.
