Chaos Walking and Y: The Last Man's diseases only affect one sex. Is that possible?
The characters in Chaos Walking live in a world without women, all of whom were supposedly killed by a disease that targeted them specifically. The truth is a little different. The men of this world are impacted by “the Noise,” a disease that reveals their thoughts as perceivable sights and sounds. Women, for some reason, aren’t affected. Over time, the Noise drove the men of one town to madness, resulting in the mass murder of all the women who lived there. Chaos Walking's disease might not have killed one sex, but it still only affected men. Is there any truth to this idea that a d...