The human species has one major weakness in terms of its reproduction - while it can tolerate a dramatic loss of the male population, it cannot tolerate a dramatic loss of the female population without a dramatic loss of future generations. This characteristic of the species, along with the omnipresent shadow of war and violence, has led many cultures to view males as the "expendible gender". With memetics, cognitive manipulation, and post-war culturalization being what they are, cultural neurosis sometimes set in. The Razorboys are one such.
The Razorboys are an anti-masculine hate group. Seeing that a female child can be produced by the merger of two female zygotes, and that men are the "warmaking gender", and a whole host of largely-irrelevant, mostly-wrong, but emotionally-provocative data, the Razorboys have decided that males are obsolete, and that women have the sole right to life. What sets the Razorboys apart is their nature - the hate group is entirely male. Feeling dispossessed or disempowered, the Razorboys have justified their feelings by validating them. To them, men should be the final bastion of war, a war fought by that gender against itself. Once masculinity has been annihilated, there will be no more war, no more violence, and no more needless upheaval in civilization.
Personally, the Razorboys are sad and frightening at the same time. They are haunted by their own masculinity - although the biotechnology that can alter their gender is well within their grasp, they feel as though their masculinity runs "far deeper" than anything a surgeon could fix. They are intelligent terrorists who conceal themselves behind their protectiveness of the "purity" of women, often assuming feminine styles. There are a large number of transgender and transvestite Razorboys, even if they do feel they can't truly escape their birth gender.
It is in their operations that Razorboys become frightening. Nanophage blooms that target Y chromosomes, anti-male memetic attacks, hacked and mass-distributed lenses to make males seem less desireable in society, and other terrorist actions are all commonplace for the Razorboys. The Razorboys are one of the most active cross-Civilization terrorist organizations in the galaxy. They can be found in such diverse roles as the Tao of History (where whole gender-role environments have been intensified yet reversed), Replicants (where several terrorist acts are directed at the "source" for male Replicants), and the Union (nobody goes to the Union Razorboy world, ever, and nobody lets them leave the system they're in).
The Razorboy symbol is the astrological symbol for Mars, but pointing downwards like Venus and with an "x" marking out the circle.
Benefit: Razorboys are immune to Empathy, Romance, or other Themes of friendship, camaraderie, or appreciation by men. Women, on the other hand, gain a +1 bonus to any Empathy, Romance, or other Themes of friendship, camaraderie, or appreciation when used against a Razorboy. All Razorboys must be identifiable in some way as "male", however that identification is made.
Core Value: Self-Loathing. More than anything else, Razorboys hate themselves, and they subjugate and validate that hate by hating others more than they hate themselves. Their self-loathing manifests in their despise of anything that reminds them of themselves, namely men, and especially men whom they recognize as being like themselves.
